He’s not really wrong though. Job interviews are 99% ass kissing, and 1% spinning some bullshit ‘weakness’ into more ass kissing.
You are god’s gift to the workforce. You were born to pour your heart and soul into this company.
Handshake. Leave.
Then the job offer comes - now you talk about pay. You’re still the Avenger’s superhero tier of employee and all, but the job posting said competitive pay, so you’ll at least need a match to your current pay rate. Here, these are my three most recent totally not photoshopped paystubs.
Accept offer.
Fly under radar until you pass whatever probationary period you may have.
School. Kids. Absolute fucking minimum. The interview can suck it.
As cliché as it may seem, you’re also interviewing them. You need to know what they expect of you, and what to expect of them. If any of those points are important to you, then you want to know ASAP if you can get them, and if you can’t, then you want to get out of there quickly.
If your only goal is getting a job, then sure, make all the compromises you need. If you have any needs besides any job, then you want those needs to be clear.
In other words: they’ll lie to you, so lie to them.
No, in other words, in the modern workplace you will get not get a job and will be the first laid off if you don’t agree that work is the top priority in your life. When they start laying off, they need to make sure those left behind will double their workloads each round until they have no time to do anything outside of work. The goal is to have as few people do all of the jobs and pay them only for the first job they get hired for.
…why does it seem taboo to admit that money is the reason people go to their jobs?
So they can underpay you. If you go through 5 rounds of interviews, you’re way more likely to accept a shitty salary so you haven’t wasted that time.
Every company that I’ve interviewed with that’s refused to talk salary has been offering ludicrously low pay. Always ask salary in the “do you have any questions” part of round one. If the interviewer says something like “we don’t discuss salary in the first round” you are now in a hostile negotiation. Increase whatever you thought the position should pay by at least 50% and say “I need to be in this range (min + 50% to min + 100%) to continue with this interview. Are we in the same ballpark?” They’ll generally give you a “oh, our range tops out at $” If it’s above your min, say “depending on the total compensation package, I can make that work. What are the next steps.” If they still won’t tell you, or it’s below your minimum, thank them for their time and end the interview.
I don’t know how many interviews I’ve bailed from because I did this. Places in Silicon Valley advertising for something like “senior Devops engineer” and trying to pay $25-50/hr.
focus on how awesome you will be at the job
Sir this is Wendy’s
Still applies.
Its kinda like dating. You don’t tell them about your freaky fetishes on the first date.
Be normal, play the game a little, and wait until you’ve been going out awhile and you’re both attached. Then you can slowly let out your crazy and say you need them to dress up like a clown or whatever.
So, what’s a soldier rejoining civilian life who decides to change gender called then? A transitioning transitioning military?
Any job or career that would judge you wanting any of those things is not a job worth interviewing for. I’ve walked out of interviews the second things started to sound like they wouldn’t respect my time.
Unfortunately some people don’t have a choice
Just keep spouting this trash. When the guillotines come out, we’ll have a nice, voluntary record of everyone we need to find.
Parking. Can we talk about parking?
You can’t park here.
Can we talk about salary then? Please?
Sure. Less is always an option. What about 15%?
And we’ll replace you with AI once it’s barely able to mimic your job.
Then we’ll hire you back. At a slightly lower rate.
Deal?
Think of it as an opportunity to grow!
Linkedin lunacy keeps on rolling
which of the 25 rounds of interviews is this referring to?
yes, in early interviews you just lie out your arse and tell them exactly what they want to hear.
but at some point you will need to ask those questions and enter those negotiations.
if you can get a whiff of how fucked the company is early on, that’s great, but don’t be too direct about it.
just need to be strategic/tactical/scheming/whatever about it.
50 hours? Get fucked.
