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I've been actively punishing companies that waste my time. Oh, two rounds of interviews only to learn it was an internal hire completed before I ever applied? Enjoy having every one of your listings have thousands of applications a day for the next six months, all just real enough to be plausible. The system is actively being weaponized against people looking for work to keep a power imbalance, might as well be a two way street.

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But then where do you go to cut through the noise? Recruiters and talent agencies? Do we need to establish a union of “real people coders”? How does this not escalate into more fakeness?

I’m with you on the don’t waste my time angle but not quite with you on the flood them with fake applications front.

Some dingus did this to our application portal. Our legal team since him and his ISP a real nasty cease and desist letter.

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