Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
I was in tech for almost 9 years and I think where people have trouble breaking into tech is the unspoken etiquette when it comes to interacting with others - backchanneling is common (you ask mutual connections about a person beforehand), and the quality of information and the helpfulness is a proxy to the quality of the relationship - you still have to write really good concise emails, or Twitter DMs etc. - there is some merit to corporate performance, thank you notes, follow ups, dinners etc. - hiring processes/networking are basically integrated and informal, and the ambiguity is unsettling to some Don’t know where I was going with this. But as someone who did tech hiring for 5~ years the quality of applicants has gone down
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Ben
@benersing
Why do you think quality has declined?
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
2 reasons: - job market tougher, feels like the only top students or applicants get jobs where it exposes them to excellence. entry level jobs becoming eliminated by AI - Instagram/twitter success slop contributing to dopamine cycle but ultimately doesn’t push folks to be better professionally What do you think? Differently, similar?
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Ben
@benersing
Still gathering datapoints. Sounds like you’re speaking specifically about new grads?
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
Yes, mostly new grads. But I coach mid-sr folks in an executive community I’m in, and I feel like they’re getting left behind too because they 1. Get laid off and 2. Their skills become legacy skills in a short period of time
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BrixBountyFarm 🎩
@brixbounty
Wonder where you would find quality of applicants from new grads hasn’t declined post Covid…
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