And yet employers are getting sillier and sillier in their hiring practices while HR is on a holy crusade to create as much discord as possible within companies.

I am so tired of recruiters.

Today I had one get quite irritated that I dare respond to her boilerplate with a link to my personal "I'm interested but in order to avoid wasting each other's time, here's my minimum requirements" page. She didn't even click the link.

Most recruiters that come across me have wrong incentives. They seem to focus entirely on churning through lots of people to get a hire rather than cultivating candidates and finding the best. So they just flood us with spam and can't seem to handle if the interaction goes off script.

The best luck I've had with "recruiters" is when the recruiter isn't HR. It's a CEO or CTO or some other technical lead. They're so efficient at getting down to brass tacks, having answers to questions, and figuring out if we move forward or not.

I think I'm about ready to just blanket ignore _all_ recruiter emails rather than attempt to filter them.

Interviewing is such bullshit. Besides all training and effort workers have to do on their own, we have to sit through these 2 ring circus interviews.

But are those tech/finance/corporate jobs, or jobs that drop you below the inflection point on the lorenz curve?

If only economics could figure out a way to clear the market...

DO NOT COMPLY.