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I had the pleasure to answer:

I am so fit for this role that I have been working at it for two years!

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[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd take that as time to jump before I'm pushed

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For a large company that hires more or less nonstop it's not necessarily a bad sign. It's not even that unusual if your social media doesn't make it clear exactly where you work. If it were a small company, or the large company is hiring for my team specifically, and I didn't know we had a position open, I would be concerned.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Companies that hire non-stop are shitholes and terrible employers.

I double down on my statement.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends on the size of the company. If a company has 3000 employees in a job family, and 1% leave per year (due to retirement, personal life reasons, etc.), they need to hire more than a person every single working day just to keep the head count.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo -2 points 1 week ago

If a company has 3000 employees it needs to be broken up into smaller operating units.

A company like that will also have zero issue shrugging you off with 500 others without a care because they want to "pivot to AI" or some bullshit.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My company is hiring like mad. We're growing very quickly. And promoting almost everyone after a year or so. A wild ride.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice. So, um, what company? And do they allow remote workers?

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

A headline AI core hyperscaler. And yes, almost entirely.

Also, great benefits.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago

My company is big enough to have multiple times my roles and we have lost some of them recently. I definitely don't feel threaten by this lazy recruiter mistake.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

Update your resume, ask for a raise, run away!

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This sounds like matching with your current girlfriend on tinder.

Do you like piña coladas?

[–] anna@retrofed.com 2 points 1 week ago

I spotted my girlfriend at the time on Grindr. That's certainly a situation.

[–] tangible@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was once recruited for a position I was let go from.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] tangible@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, I was happy at my new job

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

Nice, I thought you were still looking.

[–] Arigion@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

Much more fun: I worked as a freelancer, job needed to be publicly tendered for again after a while. Customers department was very satisfied and really wanted to keep me in the project. Turned out that I was not qualified for the job according to the job description their purchasing department published. I find that hilariously funny.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's happened twice after leaving a job, that I've been contacted by a recruiter who wants me to fill the same role in the company I just left.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Missed opportunity to find out if they're trying to replace you with someone more expensive, or cheaper.

Either way, not too good...

[–] plz1@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

It's never someone more expensive.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago

I'm paid the same as the advertised "up to". We are bleeding people due to RTO so I know they are recruiting for that.

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Not the same but once working on auditing a government contract we were giving hell to the contractor because of the shitty job they were doing, just to receive a call from the contractor looking for an expert in the field, and on LinkedIn I must be highly ranked so they called me. That conversation was funny.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I was once contacted by a recruiter for a role I was on the hiring team for. there doesn't seem to be a lot of thought going on in their heads when they copy paste their intro message to everyone who matches their linkedin search.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you like Piña coladas...

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

Hahahahah, wow, nice connection.