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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • As a hiring manager for nearly 4 years straight, dealing with way way more than 100 applicants for some positions, I know it takes minutes at most.

    All hiring systems have ways to send batch emails to rejected candidates.

    If you don’t have a hiring system for some reason, it’s still just hitting reply/ctrl-v/send to each applicant you move out of the “possible candidate” inbox.

    Giving a reason “why” tends to hit people badly if they didn’t specifically ask, so a stock response is not only easy to give, but the best response. Whether and how to respond in more detail to people asking for “why”, is a less easy decision but good if you are able to.


  • There are a few benign-ish ways this happens, based on my experience from working on “the other side”. They reflect shittily on the hiring manager, but not on you:

    You got no immediate rejection because they did consider you valid for the position, just not first place. Then they got a match on the first place and stopped giving a shit about the applicant backlog.

    They got too many applicants and threw half in the garbage.

    Upper management put a freeze, or reduction, on hiring right as they put an ad out.

    They have a person already picked for the position, but they will get in legal or corporate or PR trouble if they don’t pretend to do a proper hiring process.

    Their application process, human or computer, lost your CV.
















  • It has three sensors that notice if it is changing speed up/down, left/right or back/forth.

    A step will result in a speed increase up (foot go from still to up), followed by a sharp speed increase down (foot go from up to down), then “up” again (foot go from down to stop).

    Going up a stair causes the same but different timing between the speed changes.

    If you are on Android, the Physics Toolbox Suite can let you look at the exact values it is measuring.