And not just with ghost jobs. My recent experience as a job seeker was harrowing - even with large, proud companies. I would pass multiple rounds of interviews with senior/director-level interviewers only to never hear back from the company - even after a direct request for an update or feedback. Just total ignorance. Again, this happened with a FAANG+ company.
Side effect of this is also to keep any bias out of the equation and, being on the other side, easier to call out colleagues making inappropriate or downright discriminating comments (which in my experience unfortunately happens everywhere still)
So everyone gets the same form letter.
Companies will usually comply with this, because it's very difficult to instruct staff to not comply with the law without leaving any records or risking one of them leaking it. However they will check what the legal minimum is and do that.
And we also have the same problem that plagues modern life: the glut of choices leading people to think they can do better than they can. The pool is effectively infinite, there must be a better option somewhere. Companies don't hire. Dating has become very hard. Both lie behind very superficial screening gates that do not represent actual value.
But if we do create more legislation, make sure it's regulatory capture in a weak disguise but celebrate it with lots of political spin!
I just got told I didn't seem "motivated" enough despite spending several rounds / days / hours interviewing and bunch of leetcode questions. Not even that I wasn't skilled or good enough or didn't pass the questions. Pretty sure the last guy just didn't like me for whatever reason.
I think they have to pay that high because the work sucks so much in reality. That's the equilibrium point between the demand for people to work there, and the supply of people willing to put up with it.
If I wanted to, I could stay here until I retire (in another 20+ years), barring the complete destruction of the university I work for.
The position I'm moving to is also in academia (this time public sector in the EU), and I'm given to understand that as long as I can make it through the probationary first year, so long as I keep doing a halfway decent job there I can stay there for as long as I want, too. (We will, of course, have to see how true that is!)
Job security does exist; you just have to be willing to leave the Silicon Valley bubble.
>there is nothing to be won by working for them
As you can see above, not everyone sees it like that. And HR is working hard to pretend you're a big deal and not just a cog. People who read HN are a bit of a bubble in being disillusioned.
>I'd never hire a FAANG employee
Uhh, ok?
[1] but I had enough pride to quit after a year when they pulled off something I was not OK with.
[2] to be fair, I think at that time most employees did
Lmao.
Nothing else is going to fix this.
But those are very hard, company-specific problems to solve, hence my agreement :-)
Glassdoor could only possibly be accurate because it was anonymous. Of course, that also makes it easier to fake.
The private sector is great at lots of stuff but running a clean marketplace isnt one of them - the incentives are off.