They're probably doing it on purpose to be able to claim "they can't find qualified personnel." That would allow them to file for H1B and hire a person from India at a significant savings.

I'm not sure who to report that to, but USCIS oversees the H1B program.

After working in a really big company for a while and seeing how incredibly degrading the hiring process is nowadays i simply woulnd't want to apply for a job for those companies.

I just signed the contract for a much smaller company and the process was:

1. Apply online.... via mail and just attaching some PDFs :D
2. "We are interested in you, we would love to do an interview. Can you come over or do you want to do this Online?"
3. Meeting them in person, having a nice interview and chat afterwards.
4. Agreeing to do this and sign the contract.

Thats it. No Booking time slots to getting interviewed bullshit. This is just ridicilous.

Lockheed Martin pulled this shit on me 20 years ago. Applied for a job, did a quick phone screen and they invited me to their campus 5 hours away for an in person interview. When I got there they had a whole gymnasium setup with booths and about 50 people doing interviews and 200 bewildered engineers showing up hoping for a job. They never once mentioned it was going to be factory interviews. Fuck that and similar companies.

This probably one of those fake job postings I heard about.

I would be willing to bet that it is a Ghost Job. I sympathize with that struggle. I'm sure I have applied to a couple of those recently, too.

I found that many ghost jobs stay up for a while, so what I started doing to find leads was utilize search engine operators to find recent postings. Something like: (site:greenhouse.io | site:workday.com) after:2024-07-24 "system admin" That should find "system admin" jobs posted on workday and greenhouse, commonly used as internal job boards, posted in the last couple of days.

You could even add more job boards to the list by using site: between the parenthesis and separated with bars to expand your search. Or you could change the after statement to today to find very fresh jobs to try to find posts less than 24 hours old and be among the first applicants.

That trick (or maybe just my persistence with an overwhelming portion of luck, idk) managed to eventually get me something new, so I'm hopeful it wasn't a fluke and it can help someone else, too.

Best of luck.

You applied to work at AT&T.

WTF.

Even was told now companies use “AI” to filter out resumes before a human even sees it.

Companies have been doing this for 20+ years. The only thing new about it is that they stuck "AI" on the label.

If they’re systematically wasting people’s time like this, it’s probably grounds for a lawsuit.

I know someone recently hired with at&t and it does not sound like a good gig, so I'd consider it a blessing they showed their colors up front

Consider it a blessing and move on. It may not seem that way now, but it probably is.

I have a family member who works for AT&T. Run far far away and consider yourself lucky you couldn't get an interview.

I just got a job at a place that does batch interviews. You go through the process, then they tell you they want to do an interview. You get a text or email with slots available and you and every other applicant fights for one of 50 interview slots available.

It's a competitive job so you have to click the link within 5 minutes or you don't get a slot.

I missed the first one (slots were all full) but I got the second round. Came in with all the other applicants, did the interview, got hired.

It's certainly degrading and dehumanizing to go through this process, but for companies who have tons of applicants, they can get away with it.

“Nobody wants to work anymore”

Yeah, this is crazy, if you already went through other stages, they should find the time for you.

I'm wondering, perhaps we need a site tracking all those companies that post job openings without actually looking for employees. So we don't have to waste our time on them, wanna they might also get some consequences from this practice when they actually need new talent.

That’s cold.