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.
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.
That's fair enough, they are terrible for a lot of reasons. I just wouldn't take this as cause for particular alarm. The general and all-pervading unease of being a cog in a massive unconscious profit-maximizing metabeing is a separate but very good reason to seek a livelihood elsewhere.
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.
A long time ago, a company posted a job offer for my job. I was the only system administrator / DevOps. They hired a junior, and I knew that they wanted to fire me. The new guy knew nothing about Linux, and I was supposed to train him. Training new people was not in my work contract, let's say that it was a disaster but I was happy knowing that it would destroy the company.
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.
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.
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.
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greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo · 56 pts · 109d
I'd take that as time to jump before I'm pushed
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 109d
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 · 15 pts · 109d
Companies that hire non-stop are shitholes and terrible employers.
I double down on my statement.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 11 pts · 109d
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 · -3 pts · 109d
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.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 109d
That's fair enough, they are terrible for a lot of reasons. I just wouldn't take this as cause for particular alarm. The general and all-pervading unease of being a cog in a massive unconscious profit-maximizing metabeing is a separate but very good reason to seek a livelihood elsewhere.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 109d
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 pts · 109d
Nice. So, um, what company? And do they allow remote workers?
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d
A headline AI core hyperscaler. And yes, almost entirely.
Also, great benefits.
oce@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 109d
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 · 39 pts · 109d
Update your resume, ask for a raise, run away!
A long time ago, a company posted a job offer for my job. I was the only system administrator / DevOps. They hired a junior, and I knew that they wanted to fire me. The new guy knew nothing about Linux, and I was supposed to train him. Training new people was not in my work contract, let's say that it was a disaster but I was happy knowing that it would destroy the company.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 30 pts · 109d
This sounds like matching with your current girlfriend on tinder.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 16 pts · 109d
Do you like piña coladas?
anna@retrofed.com · 2 pts · 108d
I spotted my girlfriend at the time on Grindr. That's certainly a situation.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 109d
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 · 13 pts · 109d
It's never someone more expensive.
oce@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 109d
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.
Arigion@feddit.org · 15 pts · 109d
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.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 109d
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.
tangible@piefed.social · 12 pts · 109d
oce@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 108d
Did you rejoin?
tangible@piefed.social · 4 pts · 108d
oce@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 108d
Nice, I thought you were still looking.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 109d
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.
hawgietonight@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 108d
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.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 109d
If you like Piña coladas...
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 109d
Hahahahah, wow, nice connection.