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I wonder why they're hiring new IT personnel (lemmy.world)

submitted 17 hours ago by rImITywR@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] manmachine@lemmy.world 57 points 15 hours ago

you, SUBJECT NAME HERE, must be the pride of SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 13 hours ago

Curious about that nested object.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 38 points 12 hours ago

The “nested” typo is likely why it didn’t do the token replacement.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 20 points 13 hours ago

I still have a headhunting agency who refers to me as "B42857". Apparently some bug is getting emails to me addressed to their internal reference number.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 hours ago

That really tells you what they think of you.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

That's why they filter directly into spam.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

In fairness they probably send the same emails over and over each day, and best case automating them could save a lot of time and let them send longer more comprehensive emails without having to type the entire message every time. But you gotta be careful and check your work.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 22 points 16 hours ago

I got an email like this a few weeks ago, and then about 2 minutes later I got a new email with the corrected replacements.

I replied with a screenshot zoomed in on the "candidate name" bit and left it at that. Didn't even get a half-assed "lol sorry Bruh"

[-] vrek@programming.dev 15 points 16 hours ago

So many job applications suck...i tried to fill out one with a required "social media link" but didn't have any place to enter one. It had "LinkedIn url" and the next line was a text box, it had "github url" and the next line was a text box, it had "social media link" and the next line was just a submit button... There was literally no box to enter a social media url. I tried chrome, Firefox and Vivaldi because the job seemed good with good pay but literally impossible to apply to.

Nevermind I don't know why you need LinkedIn, github, and social media links to evaluate me as an employee but atleast give me a way to enter the data you want.

[-] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Maybe they figure if you can't fix the form to make it submit, you wouldn't be up to their standard :-)

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Depending on the position I could see any of them, but I can't imagine why you'd need all three for one application. Social Media Director of Programming Middle Management?