That is laughable that they want a copy of your diploma.
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I might tell them to fuck off at this point
I could almost certainly get the same amount of money other places, I just jumped on this because they came after me.
Yeah Iām probably bailing. Could just be HR nonsense but this is not a good sign at all. At an absolute minimum Iām politely declining that request.
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If a company asked me for my university diploma Iād be a bit like ok I guess but thatās kinda odd. High school is lolol.
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respond with ālolā
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To get government clearance I had to provide everything and I mean everything. Iāve had some companies ask for college transcripts and college diplomas, but they were for jobs right out of college. Once I had some work experience I havenāt had one that cared
When you agreed to the drug test, they just decided to see how far they could push. If you donāt put a stop to this now, theyāre going to try to do a cavity search when you show up for your first day.
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Yeah itās kind of insulting to ask you to jump through one more hoop when youāre already jumping through a bunchā¦ while simultaneously trying to pressure you to turn in your two weeks at the current position while they havenāt guaranteed you a job yet.
It depends on what industry youāre in obviously, but in any white collar job theyāre a few red flags in.
What Iāve learned is if I really want to fuck with someone, I should pretend to be considering them for an awesome job that Iāll never give them and make them jump through whatever ridiculous hoops I dream up.
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They could just take the same amount of money and make it some sort of retention bonus or quarterly bonuses or something along those lines. I think if you can aggregate that money into fewer lumpsums it has more psychological impact. $1500 to a $60k employee is probably enough to get some juices flowing. The trick is to make it actually feel like $1500, which a few bucks every paycheck doesnāt accomplish.
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On my companyās monthly call today they announced an across-the-board 5% base pay increase and āofficialā embrace of hybrid/flexible work.
Company is 50-100 employees and got hit hard economically by COVID and impacts of lockdowns and restrictions. Thereās been a few announcements of resignations lately so it feels partly to combat that and boost morale. That said, it struck me as a pretty impressive gesture considering how much income declined due to COVID.
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I donāt really use remote conferencing software where I work but I had a job interview this morning over Microsoft Teams. It was supposed to be half in-person but calling in over Teams to involve other panel members. The in person bit got canceled and I was just advised to ācall in to the interview from home.ā Am I supposed to assume anything about whether that means audio/video or just audio? I got decently dressed up and was the first to turn my camera on. A couple others turned on video a bit later looking extremely casual, some left video off. At first I was like āoh ok I guess I just overdressed a bitā but now Iām thinking back on it realizing they were probably expecting everyone to just do audio only. Should I have handled that differently?
Sounds like you handled it fine to me.
If I had something that was in person + Teams, and in-person portion was canceled, I would still assume the virtual portion was on video, especially an interview. Always good to err on the side of more conservative dress than too casually. I donāt expect my interviewer to dress up.
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Yeah, I would definitely have the expectation that a Teams interview would be on video. Of course, itās a company policy at my company that cameras are on if youāre talking (and even usually if youāre not, unless itās a huge meeting or someone is presenting slides or having slow connection issues).
In other news, Iāll be interviewing for a promotion to manager. Hopefully I can pull that one off.
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No you did fine. Iād say the expectation is the interviewee use video but if, like my company, videoās not expected for meetings, then some people may not be in the habit of turning video on
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+1 for handled well.
Not dressing up for an interview could have been marked down, even if everyone else was casual.
I just hope you didnāt bother with dress pants/trousers. Ripped board shorts and a neatly ironed Hugo Boss dress shirt is my go to formal for video conferencing.
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What industry are you in? Have you interviewed much lately?
Happy to discuss interview tips if that would help. Iāve conducted close to 1000 interviews and recently ran training for my people at work on both interviewing and being interviewed .
FWIW, I know a decent number of developers at AutoZone, they seem to have a pretty legit shop and attract some really good talent.
Itās biotech, and I havenāt interviewed much recently (Iāve been the interviewer more than the one interviewing). But, like 5 of the people Iām interviewing with used to be my boss at one time or another or is right now, so Iām not super nervous about it. Iām at least not going in dark about their styles.
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