I recently had some free time and met with a bunch of companies, and I had a lot of experiences. I would like to share them with you while I have nothing to do on the plane.

Importance of Recruiter

The quality of a company, the experience of the recruiter and hiring process is a very good mirror. As a candidate, you actually know very little about the inside of the company. The biggest information receiving points may be the recruiter and the interviewer. A good interview experience can make a passerby company attractive to you, or it can make a company that originally attracted you uninteresting. In this market where demand exceeds supply, the final decision is which offer to take.

The interview experience mainly consists of the following parts:

• Introduce the company and company positions for the first time, and learn about your treat via phone chat
• Interview arrangements and email responses
• Interviewer's behavior during the interview
• Results feedback speed and follow-up attitude
• onsite arrangement and experience
• final chat after

Many small and medium-sized companies appear very unprofessional in the first step. Such companies generally do not have a particularly professional HR system. Unless it is a particularly attractive position, there is no need to continue the conversation.

Most companies will do a good job in the first step, but once they start interviewing, the experience will get worse and worse. For example, they are very enthusiastic at the beginning, but once the interview is arranged, they will ignore some emails after sending them. Especially in many cases, the feedback after the interview is generally delayed (even if the feedback is positive) if there is no strong request. I don’t know if it’s because the recruiter is only responsible for recruiting people for interviews, and the rest of the job is not the focus of the work, or the rights and responsibilities for follow-up after recruiting are not very clear. The reason why I feel so deeply is because this experience is very common, and almost all companies have this problem.

In addition, the professionalism of the interviewer also greatly affects the interview experience. Generally, a good interviewer will introduce the position and the role you will play with a smile, then get to know you and chat with you, and then get into the technical aspects. But we often encounter people who are not awake or have a particularly bad attitude. The probability of Yin Yin is very high.

Basically, the more a company values ​​its talent, the better the recruiting experience will be.

Of course, in addition to the company's recruiter, there are also companies that outsource positions to headhunters. This type of headhunter is very interesting. If the headhunter thinks you are good, he will try his best to help you win, and even give you many interview tips. But after all, headhunters are not people in the company. They often speak well, but they do not have particularly strong recommendation ability. They may just "give" your situation to the other company, and they may not follow up later. This type of headhunter, if used well, can still help a lot, but most of the time it is not as good as the recruiter within the company, after all, there is a layer between them.

Weird experience

This part is purely for writing down the weird things I have experienced, to pass the time for everyone.

China branch of a U.S. listed company

I have complained about the routines of domestic companies before. I ask too much about personal privacy, where I am from, whether I am married, and my age. I basically do not answer such questions. First of all, I have no great interest in domestic companies. Secondly, these questions have nothing to do with work, so I am not willing to provide them.

And this domestic company was even more interesting. They made an appointment on the phone and didn't tell me first what kind of positions they were looking for and what kind of people they needed. They came up and asked me directly. This made me confused. I didn't even know what your company does or what kind of positions it needed. I wasn't necessarily interested. Why don't you ask me these questions directly?

I asked since it is a US listed company, can I pay globally? The answer was yes, so I gave some information. But a few days later, I received an email saying that there were only engineering positions, and the salary was uncompetitive in the market.

Well... a global company has done a really good job of localization in China.

A domestic tourism listed company

This company is also very funny. The recuriter talked about a lot of the benefits of his company, saying that he cherished talents and hoped to find some overseas talents, blablabla, and said that he could choose suitable positions based on his abilities. It sounded like he could give full play to his abilities. Just as he was gearing up, another recuriter called. This person seemed to be his manager. He told me that he only had engineering positions and the salary was average. He asked if he was interested. Forget it...you shouldn't expect anything from domestic companies.

Most companies are not recruiting talents, but workers. They are all part-time workers. Why not stay in the United States to work? I don’t know what kind of returned talents this company can find with this recruitment strategy.

Alibaba

As a native of Hangzhou, I am very familiar with Alibaba. I mentioned my name in the hope that relevant people can see and improve Alibaba’s recruitment procedures, otherwise I won’t be able to find any talents (maybe a company of this size doesn’t need any talents anymore).

My experience was like this. I suddenly received an email asking if I wanted an interview. I didn't submit my resume at all, and the email didn't say what position I was interviewing for or what type of interview it was (usually I had to make a phone call first to talk about the situation and suitable positions).

Out of curiosity, I set up a phone call to chat about the situation. This interview requires the installation of one of Alibaba's conferencing products, which is very unprofessional. The person interviewing me didn't seem to be a recruiter. He looked more like an old employee. He had a deadpan face throughout the whole process. Although he didn't ask for any personal information, he started a technical chat directly. How could he not even know the position, and whether I was interested or not, go directly to the technical interview without informing him in advance?

Although it is not a difficult question, it is still very uncomfortable. After asking, I started asking you about the company's internal system architecture and what technologies are used. The questions were very in-depth, as if you were "stealing" technology. I said that I didn't want to talk too much, and he was not suitable to listen to me, so it ended.

I didn't have much hope at first, but 2 months later I suddenly received another email. Everyone, read:

I suddenly received such an email, and there was a photo of a beautiful woman in it. My first reaction was that it was a liar, but after taking a closer look at Ali's email address, and another closer look, I saw that the email address was still weird, as if it was randomly generated. Is this a person or a ghost?

Let’s look at the content again. Are you invited for an interview? It was an email from someone who didn’t know what position or what type of interview. He didn’t ask me about my time, but just set one up for me! I have no choice. Even if I love Ali to a certain extent, this is too disrespectful.

And, it’s 10pm in San Francisco! I'm in the east, and it's already 1 o'clock in the middle of the night! And how do you know I’m not traveling in another city?

Also, Wednesday night happens to be the Fourth of July holiday, alas. Too lazy to complain.

He refused directly and asked me why. I didn’t have time. Why? Didn’t know I also have a schedule?

A U.S. listed company

I actually had a very good impression of this company, especially after the first round of introductions. I felt it was a very good option. However, as the process progressed, I found that the experience was getting worse and worse. In the end, I even ignored the interview. I hadn’t even started the interview yet, so... I was probably busy, so I didn’t need to pay special attention to it. After all, other companies were pretty much the same.

After the interview, it got even weirder. I was invited to onsite, but given a different position. I called to argue that this was not what I wanted. The other party explained it to you in a salesman's way, with various reasons that I didn't believe. I couldn't listen, and my impression of the company plummeted. The mentality has also changed: just use the air ticket to have fun, don’t prepare for the interview, love it or not.

Indian “scammer” company Infosys and others

Everyone should have an impression of infosys. As a human trafficking company, it gets more than half of H1Bs in a year. I won’t comment on them here, but will introduce my experience.

When I got the appointment call, I got straight to the point and told you there were many positions, but I didn’t say what specific positions they were, and I just kept asking for resumes. Out of curiosity, I gave it to you, but I never talked to you again. Later, I thought about it, I probably used your resume to apply for projects, and then hired people after I deceived the project.

That should be what it means.

There are still many such situations, and many headhunters are like this. Most of them will not tell you what company or position they are in, and they will ask for a resume. I basically ignore this kind of information. Most of them ask for your resume and submit it overseas, and those who take the bait get bonuses.