#hiringprocess

I've been applying for two months and haven't heard back from anyone. Is this normal now? Things have really changed.

I had a very bizarre interview yesterday. My city has an SMBC office. The job post mentioned my city in the description. My 3 interviewers were all from NJ / NYC area based on their LinkedIn profiles. They were ALL AWARE I am in a different city. In fact, one interviewer was the hiring manager.

Two things happened in the interview:

1. 2 interviewers were late.
2. For spending 45 minutes on the interview, one interviewer said she will talk to HR if I can be even considered.

Why did the interviewers waste my time? This is totally unprofessional.

Hiring the best I see. Because of course they once again pick out the dr-g addicts. People who do dr-gs do not belong around airplanes, or other safety critical equipment. Once again we will be flooded with lazy unmotivated careless new hires.

Pretty bad company and their hiring process. Guess if you show any success they do not want to hire you. They want mindless drones.

Was laid off over 1 year ago.
Found a opening or what I thought was an opening on Indeed. I applied for it, got the email confirmation from Indeed and the email from UHG HR advising to complete the UHG application on the company website. When I clicked the link to open the company website from their own email the job posting was “no longer available.” In the same exact day within a couple hours of my Indeed app.
Wtf?! I’m wondering if its because they realized I was a former employee (from my email address) and didnt want to rehire me.
I thought I left in good standing - I received recognitions while I was working there.

Any one else experienced anything like this?

I’m about 2 months away from my 1-year mark at Citi and starting to think about internal opportunities. Can I apply before I officially hit 1 year, or do I have to wait?

does your manager only find out if you get an offer, or are they notified at some point during the interview process?

Hi folks! I applied and landed an interview for an AI position. The hiring manager seems excited after our interview. What should I expect if hired? I was happy until I read some of these posts..but now I’m scared

When applying for an internal mobility role, is the current manager typically informed during the interview process? I’m trying to understand how confidential the process is, as I want to avoid any impact on my current role if I’m not selected.

We have internal job postings all the time, but it’s becoming pretty obvious a lot of them already have someone in mind. People go through the entire process and then lose out to someone who seems pre-selected. Why even put it up if you already know who you're going to give it to?

Can someone please explain why it takes half a year to fill a job here? I don't understand the delay.

Curious does anyone have any context why there is a delay on any job offers from the recent jobs posting? Many have slowed down after final interviews.

I applied/interviewed to 3 positions over the past 6 months, made it to the interview phase but never get selected. I have a friend who’s moved around a lot over the years, I figured it be relatively easy to get a role this way, especially if it’s a lateral move. Anyone else unable to move around? Do the hiring managers know who will be hired before they post it on workday? That’s kind of what I’m thinking how it works now, they know who will get hired but just open the position as a formality, wasting everyone else’s time who applied.

Or do I just have bad luck?

Complicit to the status quo and having a foriegner centric first mindset in hiring practices have caught up to AWS.

Is this normal at Schwab to get asked to created a whole angular application during a specialist software engineer interview that connects to an api. I had until tomorrow to finish it, but I felt it was a waste of my time since I am employed in a different position with other work. I felt it was extreme and I’m moving on. Is this normal.

How long should it take for me to get an interview and potentially get hired? When should I tell my current manager? Before I apply or once I get an offer ?

How are ya’ll getting hired back? I’ve had great interviews but I can tell the hiring manager already has someone in mind for the role. How much networking is everyone doing?

Have there be layoffs in the HR department?

When applying for a job, the recruiter doesn't respond to emails - even after they specifically said to let them know if we didn't hear from the job interviewer after one week?

I see job posting by PepsiCo with a title “Admintest iCIMS test job”, and I do get a notification every time there is a new one.
Does anyone know what these are?

How common is it to fail background checks? Can a failure be as a result of ulterior reasons - role pulled etc?

When can we expect more jobs to be posted by TIAA? Jan. 2026? February?

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-tech-employee-struggling-find-job-work-shares-journey-frustrations-2025-12

A former AT&T worker has been job hunting for 3 years. Recruiters keep telling him to embellish his résumé.
By Jacob Zinkula - Dec 7, 2025, 4:40 AM ET

Miles Bradley has struggled to find work for three years after losing his AT&T contract role.
He believes some companies are seeking the perfect "Goldilocks" candidate in a competitive job market.
Bradley said he's coped with long-term unemployment by minimizing expenses and staying optimistic.
After more than three years of job hunting, Miles Bradley suspects his best chance of getting hired may be a strategy he refuses to try: lying on his résumé.

Bradley has been searching for work since October 2022, when he was let go from a contract software engineering role at AT&T. He said he's connected with several recruiters during his search, and that some have asked him to tailor his résumé to better align with a job posting — requests he's been happy to accommodate.

However, Bradley said some recruiters went a step further — making significant changes to his résumé without his approval, which he felt didn't accurately reflect his experience and qualifications. These changes appeared to help him land a few interviews, but once he realized which résumé had been used, he declined the opportunities and stopped working with the recruiters.

"I was like, 'wait, this résumé doesn't represent me at all, and I'm not ethically going to do this,'" said Bradley, who's in his late 50s and lives in New York.

Bradley is among the dozens of Americans Business Insider has spoken with over the past year who are struggling to find work. Amid economic uncertainty, the early effects of generative AI adoption, and a trend toward streamlining operations, US businesses are now hiring at one of the slowest rates since 2013. Job openings have fallen sharply since peaking in 2022, when they exceeded 12 million, to about 7.2 million as of this past August, the most recent data available.

In a competitive job market, some job seekers are willing to try just about anything to get hired. While stretching the truth on a résumé or during an interview, for example, might pay off, the strategy also comes with significant risks.

Some companies could be holding out for the perfect candidate
Bradley said he's concerned that a competitive job market encourages résumé embellishment by both recruiters and job seekers — and that it's hard for him to compete with fabricated applications.

If companies are patient enough, he thinks someone with the ideal résumé — embellished or not — will often eventually come along. And when that happens, Bradley said, he can't blame companies for choosing the candidate who appears to be the safe, logical option — even if they might not actually be the best person for the job.

"The industry has become addicted to finding the 'Goldilocks' candidates," he said. "They want to have somebody that exactly fits what they're looking for."

There's evidence that companies have become slower to fill job openings, whether due to economic uncertainty or the desire to find the perfect candidate. In October 2019, about 91% of job postings from companies in the Russell 3000 — a stock market index that tracks the performance of the 3,000 largest US public firms — were filled within six months, according to data shared with Business Insider by Revelio Labs. Of the jobs posted in October 2024, fewer than half were filled within the same six-month timeframe.

While Bradley prefers to be as honest as possible on his résumé, he said he's become comfortable being somewhat flexible with certain details. For example, he said he might present certain skills or experiences as more central to his past work than they actually were. However, he's careful not to include anything that he believes would misrepresent who he is or what he's actually done.

Coping with long-term unemployment
In his final days on the job at AT&T, Bradley said he did his best to "exit gracefully," which included training his replacement and ensuring his main project was in as good a shape as possible.

Once he officially left, he began searching for work, targeting engineering manager- and director-level roles. As his job search has dragged on, he said he has also explored product management and business analyst roles, and even applied for a barista position at Starbucks. Despite submitting hundreds of applications, he's still waiting for an offer.

Job-hunting for three years has taken a toll on Bradley's finances, but he said he's fortunate to have support from his partner and family. In addition to that financial help, Bradley said he has been able to get by because he has become a "hyper minimalist." He said he used to have multiple cars, but now drives a single 15-year-old vehicle.

"It means I don't get anything that I don't need," he said. "I've reduced it down to a couple of backpacks' worth of stuff."

Bradley is among the Americans dealing with the economic consequences of long-term unemployment. While the unemployment rate remains fairly low by historical standards, it has risen to its highest level since 2021, when the economy was still recovering from pandemic-related disruptions. The share of unemployed workers who've been searching for work for 27 weeks or longer rose this year to the highest level since early 2022, and remains near that level as of the most recent data.

Bradley said he often reminds himself that, in the big picture, he's fortunate to have the lifestyle he does.

"I still live at the top percentage of the world's population," he said. "So what do I have to be upset about?"

Going forward, Bradley said he's at peace with the possibility that his job search luck may never change — but he still plans to keep looking for work.

"I love to help companies be successful," he said. "But at the same time, if nobody wants to hire me, I shrug my shoulders and keep going."

I don’t understand on why we are hiring so many folks. In my own department directors salary posted is anywhere from $189k-$289k.

Two people who were supposed to join our team had their start dates pushed back indefinitely. Everyone knows what that means, even if HR uses soft language. It is a bad sign when even onboarding becomes uncertain.

are you guys hiring?

Does completing four rounds of interviews usually indicate I’m likely to receive an offer for an internal position?

I've been told by a few people I have nothing to worry about because I'm one of the newer hires and this layoff will target those with higher pay, meaning people who've been at Verizon for a while. Is this true? I'd like to believe it, but I'm too scared to get my hopes up.

What is the deal over there? I keep hearing terrible things and I applied for a position internally not long ago but hasn't gone anywhere.

Hi, When I was searching for Edward Jones review somehow this thread showed up in Google. I had applied for a job and had my interview with the hiring manager. She mentioned something about leadership assessment. Can someone tell me what this is? I have applied for a marketing role not for FA role. I am so confused on why marketing would need leadership assessment role. Also, the number of rounds of interview are ridiculous I have to meet total of 10 people if I pass the leadership assessment for a junior product role. Can someone shed light on the leadership assessment and final rounds of meeting with 3 people per round?

https://youtube.com/shorts/bP6L6kbz2lM?si=U_3CnJs74rLXJMWw

I am hoping this posts help people. I was let go in July and was provided severance for 3 months. My last day is October 21. I had been with the company for 7 years. As soon as I was informed I started looking. I had couple of interviews and they had started to do background check. BNY uses a third party (The work number) from equifax to do employment verification. I am in the last stages with one of the companies and I proactively did my verification. Here is how they are going to mess me up. In the report it shows

Employment Status: Active
Original Hire Date: my date when I was hired
Date of Termination: 10/21/2025

I am not telling employer that I am laid off as I am still receiving paycheck. I am afraid that when they do the background check they will see that the date of termination is already populated and I fear they might rescind the offer.

This company can't do one thing right other than sc--wing employees. Did anyone go through this scenario? I am afraid that I might loose this opportunity.

My department is hiring. I believe they already found the candidate. Hopefully that’s a good sign for my department

At time moment there are 4545 postings (some looking for more than one hire.) But that seems lower than it has been. Of those, 2439 are in India. That absolute number and that ratio are not as India-friendly as we have seen in the past. So are we curtailing hiring? Or are these numbers in line with what we expect?

Also, if you do technical/sw development work, check to see if there is hiring around you.

Never give these 3 'sudden deaths' answers at a job interview, says CEO—'you've instantly disqualified yourself'. #3 is very interesting, see the link below:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/never-give-these-3-sudden-death-answers-at-a-job-interview-says-ceo-you-ve-instantly-disqualified-yourself/ar-AA1LkiJf?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W069&cvid=4eb443a3de0a425ca7049dbd8be1e6f0&ei=61

My group is doing a small amount of hiring, but every time it's posted in Brazil, because we can pay them significantly less than we would have to pay an American.

Funny how we need to RTO to collaborate, but then we continue to hire people in a different country than the people who are back in the office.