Canonical Recruitment Process(reddit.com) Like thousands of other applicants, I went through Canonical’s extremely long hiring process (over four months: September 2024 → February 2025) for a software engineer position.
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Looking for work is a full time job(resumevue.com) These are posts from hiring managers, recruiters to their private network, VC groups, private job boards, founders and startups, it's all here in one place
Story of a Pentester Recruitment(silentsignal.eu) In 2015, we published a blog post about the recruitment challenges we devised for candidates who’d like to join our pentester team. The post got much attention, with supportive comments and criticism as well. Learning from this experience, we created a completely new challenge that we’re retiring today, and we’d once again share our experiences (and the solutions!) we gained from this little game.
A job platform for developers by developers (built by an experienced developer)(devjobs.work) We’re solving the issues that make job searching frustrating — irrelevant results, unclear salaries, and outdated hiring practices.Join us and make finding your next role easier.Recruiters/Employers: Partner with us to post your roles with clear salaries, remote policies, and the right details to connect with top developer talent. Let’s fix job searching together!
AI Is the Enshittification of Recruitment(beny23.github.io) I. Want. To. Scream. Not so long ago, I reviewed about 1,000 CVs (resumes). 500 for a frontend developer position, about 500 for a backend developer position. You might think I was crazy, why don’t I let an agency do the sifting for me? Well, that wasn’t the thing that made me scream.
U.S. Navy Launched Subreddit Puzzle Game to Attract Submariners(forbes.com) After years of struggling to meet recruiting goals, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced last Tuesday that the U.S. Navy exceeded its fiscal year 2024 goals, which had been set at 40,600—an increase from the two previous years.
What Your Job Ad Says About You(talentstuff.com) I have written and read so many job adverts over the years that I have almost become immune to phrases like “rockstar developer”. That’s a lie. I still throw up in my mouth a little every time I see that.