[Linux-aus] Ghosted?

[Russell Coker]

On Sunday, 27 July 2025 20:29:55 AEST James Tobin via linux-aus wrote:
> c) Inappropriate comments directed at the recruiter and allegedly at
> candidates during interviews.

That seems to indicate you are better off not working there.  A CTO who does 
such things will hire line managers who also do it and get rid of managers who 
oppose it.

On Sunday, 27 July 2025 12:11:02 AEST Adam Nielsen via linux-aus wrote:
> Turns out the recruiter had been given some questions to ask potential
> applicants (like a sort of test) to see if they knew their stuff, and
> despite being told not to, the recruiter had been giving out the
> questions to applicants so they could go home and Google all the
> answers.  No surprise they came back looking so great.

Once when applying for a contract with IBM the recruiting agent gave me the 
questions and answers and asked me to grade myself and tell them the result.  
The answers sheet had notes like "make sure the candidate knows the answers to 
these" so it was obviously not supposed to be shown to me.  I informed IBM and 
ended up not getting the position.  You create a disturbance and you don't get 
the job.  Hopefully IBM made the recruiting company do better.

On Sunday, 27 July 2025 08:38:02 AEST James Tobin via linux-aus wrote:
> Is this how employers should behave?

As a job applicant there isn't a question of how the employer should behave, 
there's a question of what they are legally obliged to do and a question of 
whether their actions make you want to work for them.  In this case it seems 
that they did nothing illegal but you might want to avoid working for them.

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