It’s been 2 years since I’ve gotten let go from
my six figure tech job I did tons of interviews and no offers I’m exhausted I already know QA is dead fuck the tech industry especially Accenture who laid me off in 2024 I still have resentment 2 years later imagine going from six figures to govt assistance jumping from one odd job to the next just to survive I’m almost 30 and my life went backwards I really hate my fucking life right now and don’t tell me to keep on applying because that will piss me off

I got an offer, only for it to be rescinded cause an ex-employee reached out to them after I signed the offer letter. How is that fair? I had to give 2 assessments (cognitive and behavioral), 1 case study, and 1 video submission, and then go through 3 rounds of interviews (1 AI and 2 human). I signed the offer letter and confidentiality agreements. I was going through a background check and getting ready to go to my drug screening when I received this email from HR.

I'm so angry and confused. What should I do?

Edit: To everyone asking if I left my previous job or if I’ve given notice period - No, I haven’t. I graduated in May and am currently looking for new job opportunities and this was my first offer. I was supposed to start on November 30th.

Lately, it feels like some people have completely forgotten what LinkedIn is meant for.
You connect with someone for professional networking, career opportunities or industry discussions, and suddenly the conversation turns into flirting, personal compliments and unnecessary advances.
“Can I ask you something?”
“You’re so cute.”
“I’ve wanted to tell you this since I saw your profile.”
Seriously? 😭
If you’re looking for dates, there are plenty of dating apps available. LinkedIn is supposed to be a professional networking platform, not a place to test your flirting skills.
The funniest part? Some people use professional help as an excuse to initiate personal conversations.
Can we please keep professional networking professional?
Has anyone else noticed this growing trend, or am I the only one experiencing it?

I thought entry level just meant having a willingness to be molded, to be critiqued, to learn, to be open to anything. But no, the requirements are so much higher these days.

I had a decent entry level resume built with SWE/tech support internships, projects, certifications and a cs bachelor's. I graduated in May 2025. I graduated with almost 50k in loans. After graduation I could only get a job at a local big box store hauling heavy products around for $16/hour, working from 11pm to 7am. Meaning, my first job after college was making a deadend $33k a year in 2025. Now 2026. I got a 50 cent raise after a year. in a VHCOL. I'm unemployed now, though.

The classical advice to someone in my spot is "just go get another education". Will you be paying the bill??? I was making $16 an hour. My loans aren't even paid off.

Happy Holidays. Being trained with people 20 years younger.

Applied on Monday, had an interview on Wednesday, Friday i received the job offer..

Is it a red flag for a company to progress this fast?

I’m 25 and have been unemployed for close to a year.

For context, I live in a country where employee rights are treated as a recommendation and most local companies are abusive as hell. So i’ve basically been “job hopping” not by choice but because the companies i worked in would basically force us to work from 9 am well into the night VERY frequently (think till 11,12,1 am etc) because they refuse to hire more people and theres lots of work to be done so if u dont work late for the sake of meeting insane deadlines, you’re gonna be fired. Unpaid overtime work btw. same goes for weekends, replying to clients and team members and your manager at whatever time is also expected even if its 4 am.

I’ve also had managers who are just extremely unreasonable. A small example would be them asking me to make a document blue then when i do it they’d tell me why not red??? i wanted red. when i tell them that you asked for blue, they’d tell me but i changed my mind and you should’ve known i wanted red now. this is just to give you an idea, obviously theres way more insane stuff but i’ll keep it short.

So i was referred to a role at a company, and went in for the interview.

I was asked to fill out paper forms for the application, where they asked for references, previous salaries, and current salary expectation which is already an issue considering i don’t even know exactly what they want in this role. There was no job description, no specifics about the role, and was expected to fill out this form before even speaking to anyone. After a short conversation with the HR, she wanted to know my salary expectation and i gave her a mid range salary for what she said they’re looking for; someone to basically BE the whole department. Not an unreasonable salary ask, just a small bump from my previous salaries, and a number recent interviewers have told me is their budget for similar roles.

I go in to interview with the CEO (same day, its a small company). He asks me if i’m single, asks what my family members do for work, then starts ranting about Gen Z and how he thinks we are all lazy and don’t want to work and just want lavish lifestyles because we are so brainwashed by social media, says we want the reward without the hard work, Gen Z think they can just ask for extremely high salaries without having anything to offer and provide no value for businesses. He starts talking about how there are employees who have been there for 10 years and never gotten a raise because they don’t bring him revenue (he told me their salaries, he’s basically paying them much less than liveable wages) and how he sees employees as an expense so whenever they dont bring revenue he sees them as the thousands of dollars he pays them each month.

Then he starts saying, that he thinks i’m lost in life, because i changed jobs a lot, and that he thinks if i was any good these companies would not have let me leave. Started saying he thinks i left because i wanted a lavish salary and they didn’t give me that so i left.

Keep in mind he’s on a monologue here and i haven’t gotten a word in i’m just listening in shock lol

I told him very frankly why i left the previous companies. That I had the salaries i asked for, explained the context of why i left, and they weren’t happy about me leaving as i had been carrying a bulk of the work but they couldn’t stop me.

He told me wow that sounds terrible. Told me about a branch of the company they closed because the clients were so cheap and wouldnt increase the budget buy wanted so much out of scope work.

Then he started rambling about gen z being lazy, how they dont agree to work overtime (unpaid), and how they dont agree to do work that isn’t theirs, and have the nerve to ask for higher salaries. he gave me an example where he asked a gen Z HR employee to do cold calling sales work and she refused. Said he thinks she is lazy and unreasonable. said that gen z employees refuse to stay overtime saying they have plans and want to go gym and stuff.

He said, If the office cleaner didn’t come, I, as a CEO, will clean and do the dishes so the office doesnt stink. I need a joker who will do everything required. I asked him what exactly is required? cause i don’t do dishes lol. he said how about cleaning toilets? i said not that either lol

Honestly the irony😂

He kept rambling on about how just because the work day ended u don’t stop being a professional, like how ronaldo doesnt stop being a soccer player just because he’s not in a game right now. Insane. as if ronaldo doesnt make millions each game, and its not like ronaldo is always walking around with the ball or living on the field lol.

He said, whats the problem if i had a great idea at 9 pm and texted u about it and then u open ur laptop and start working on it? i told him whats the problem if u write down the idea then discuss it with me the next day?

I told him honestly, i value my rest and downtime. i value being able to see friends, do sports and hobbies, relax, and do whatever after work. i need to refresh, and if i keep working 24/7 i’m gonna be burnt out and basically be useless. I’m not gonna be the person who does everything for a company anymore.

He starts rambling about how europe is struggling because of Gen Z. said gen Z refuse to work and they cant find workers.

the interview lasted 2.5 hours. it was honestly an insane experience. the cherry on top was him having cameras in every single office, and had a tv directly next to him streaming the camera feed, and he was constantly checking it. it ended with him having to go to a meeting, and asked me if this really is my final salary range. i said yes.

he said they’ll be in touch. i hope not lol i’d rather stay unemployed than work for him.

Share your insane interview stories😂

Had a brief conversation with the manager over the phone, they offered an interview invitation for next week which I accepted. Then I received this email not even 24 hours later.

Not the first time this has happened either.

Tired of being rejected after a good interview. Tired of people assuming that I am lazy and don't care about my current situation. Tired of being tired everyday as a result of the stress from the job hunt. Tired of seeing other people around me get offers while I am still unemployed. Did everything right, including getting good grades, referrals, and doing multiple summer internships. About to be 1.5 years post grad with not a single offer at all.

I just need to vent a little. I've been in a really long interview process for a role through a recruiting agency. I interviewed with the person who was supposed to be my manager, and he told me I was his favorite candidate and that they wouldn't be doing any more interviews. Then they scheduled me with the department leads, and they also said they liked me and were just waiting on approval.

The recruiter even told me the offer would probably come that Friday. Instead, I found out they'd changed the hiring manager for the position, and I had to do one more interview with the new manager. She started asking super specific, nitpicky questions, and honestly she wasn't very nice. It didn't feel great, and even the recruiter said the interviewer seemed really tough.

A few days later I found out the new manager decided not to move forward with me. I know this happens, but it's so frustrating to get that close after so many rounds and so much positive feedback, only for it to fall apart because of something completely out of my control.

Has anyone else been through something like this? How did you move on from it?

I am sure most people are in the same boat but doesn't make it any less frustrating. My wife has been looking for a job since she graduated college over the summer and it seems like she can't find anything. Every place just ghosts her despite having a degree in accounting and an internship she held for over a year doing accounting work. Does anyone have any advice? We're beginning to feel hopeless and feel the strain on our wallets.

Some crucial context: Savannah, GA area. Has 4 year degree in accounting

Edit: some have asked why has she not leveraged that internship? It was with the university we both attended however I joined the military and was moved to Georgia. She had many connections from there but since we moved here those connections were pretty much meaningless the moment we left the state. Yes we have tried to look on post, but no dice with any jobs. I've also tried asking coworkers and what not but either their spouses are in the same boat or work in unrelated workfields that make it more or less inconsequential in terms of connections. Resume has been looked at multiple times and is told is great. Working on getting certifications is hard as I am the sole provider currently and certifications needs money... something we don't have a lot of

Creating an account for each company’s “career portal”, filling out everything that’s in your résumé MULTIPLE TIMES, tailoring said resume to each specific job, completing multiple assessments, being asked to record a video of yourself answering questions, being asked to complete a virtual or video screening with a fucking AI.. I’m tired of wasting time and effort for the application to still get auto rejected or ghosted. There’s no other way to apply no matter if it’s an entry level job or a corporate one though, and people who haven’t had to apply to a job in the last few years just don’t get it. The process keeps getting worse. Connections or referrals won’t help you either.

Don’t even get me started on the AI “chat here to apply” bullshit applications. Most of them are for shitty fast food and some retail chains, but it still sucks that it’s the only way to apply for them. Most of those jobs probably don’t even exist anyway.

All this makes me wonder what recruiters actually do. You have to jump through their hoops but AI does the majority of their work for them. 90% of the time there isn’t any interaction with you and the company or recruiter regardless of where/ what the job is, so it feels like you’re repeatedly throwing your résumé out into a void of nothing. Even IF you make it to an interview, they’ll ghost you after, send a generic rejection email, or have you go through 2 to 3 more rounds of humiliation before you get rejected.

The only consistent things I get after applying are a bunch of spam phone calls and spam emails. It makes you wonder what any of this is for.

Anyone encountered this type of assessment? These two example were still easy then for the next stages you will get overwhelmed by multiple backgrounds and you need to give answer within 1 min.

about a week ago on sunday, i got interviewed by chipotle and i’d say it went really well. the woman interviewing me even acknowledged how prepared i came, and i don’t know if this is a sign or not but when i went to get a bowl on my way out (cause why not) the bowl was $8 even though i got both brisket & queso. maybe she gave me an employee’s discount as a way to tell me i got the job? but i digress. she told me i should be receiving an update by tomorrow night, which by that point in time was monday night, yet i’ve gotten absolutely nothing .

same with a penn station interview i went to a week before the chipotle interview. after the interview was done, i was told i’d be given an update soon. it’s been two weeks. still nothing

i’m 16 looking for my first job, applied literally everywhere, been to like 6 interviews at this point, and i know interviewing and reviewing applicants takes time but i’m desperate 🫠

should i call them to get updates on my applications?

Hello,

I was contacted by a recruiter at Syndicatebleu late last month through LinkedIn about a job position. I sent my resume, and we had a phone call about the position, and she scheduled an interview with the company. Did the interview, went well, and I sent her my "Thank you" email to send to the interviewer.

A week later, I sent a short email to the recruiter asking if there were any updates; no response. A couple of days later, I sent another short email asking for an update, and still no response.

It's been nearly three weeks since my interview, and this job would be such a win for me, especially since I've been looking for employment for two years now with little success because I keep on getting ghosted.

I was laid off in September shortly and like many here I’ve been working my ass off on applications/interviews. A friend at an old company has a spot open 4hrs from my home that supplies lodging and the shifts are 12hrs so you work 3-4 of them each week.

The lodging is a condo where we each get our own room with a lock. I’m the only female on the team/living there but I’ve lived in dorms before in the military. My take home pay would be about $75 more than unemployment currently. I am having such a hard time finding the grit that I know I use to have to just go do the job. My husband and I have a plan of attack but the anxiety of being away from home and living with people I don’t know is intense. I’m also, nervous about returning to this old company (at a much lower ranking position) after my experience with the toxic C-Suite. Granted, I’m much lower and the intent is for this to be temporary.

I keep thinking of turning down the job but it will put unemployment at risk to either pause or stop entirely. It could also keep going for another 5months if they feel that my rejection was sound and not me being lazy. But it’s also only 5 months of benefits vs getting paid consistently. I’m not looking for advice on what to do. Just trying to get my head right before I drive out there today.

Is anyone else struggling with finding their old grit/ability to just dig in?

So I'm kinda stupid and didn't realize in the employment dates you could enter the day of the month too, so I put the correct month/year but the days are the default (the 1st) instead of the correct ones so now my employment part is under "consider". Anyone have experience with this and is it fine?

Got the National Grid Hirevue email for the Graduate Development Program but when I click on the Hirevue link, it says error. Is this happening to anyone else?

I didn’t want to accept immediately as I was still interviewing. The deadline said that I had seven days to accept, but day five I went to accept the offer and it was listed as “expired.” I was kind of suspicious as all I did to get the offer was answer some yes/no questions from AI and had no contact with an actual person.