cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52088358
I know the market is ass rn, I’ve been looking for a job since I graduated in November of last year with no luck. Every application I get a response like “you are great, your skills are great, you meet every criteria but we found someone better”. I recently decided to start replying to emails to ask why I wasn’t picked (I reply only to emails that aren’t from no-reply or if the say I can ask for feedback). So far I have not even received one reply. Am I wasting my time??? I feel like it’s just from automated systems and they don’t even look at it. Is everything literally a ghost job?? If you have ever asked for feedback have you gotten anything useful from it?
Asked for feedback after 9 interviews with Sonos, including with their president of data, and was told, “No feedback, you were a good candidate” ?
Can only assume someone else got hired but it’s hard to tell with all the California ‘no’ stuff these companies go in for.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the money pushers decided they didn’t want to have the position anymore when they learned the cost of it. Happens all to frequently. Was the /biggest/ blocker in my old retail job. Store level would open a position, go through the hassle of interviewing or sometimes even having them come in for orientation. Just to have corporate level call in and be like “actually that position/req doesn’t exist anymore figure it out” Which almost always led to the job offer being withdrawn or employee being terminated with no repercussion because they had been there very little.