If you're a doctor, and you apply for a hospital job, do they at least reply to acknowledge your application? Do they then send a rejection letter if you're simply 'not what they're looking for'? If they then start to consider you as a candidate, do you have to 'trial cure' a couple of patients, take a cell-function exam, and endure 6 rounds of other interviews and screens before getting on the final shortlist?
Tech applications mostly just go into the void (sometimes there's an autoresponder to at least say your application has been received into their system, but often not even that), occasionally they'll give you a rejection letter if you're not suitable, but often they won't bother, and then at any time during the arduous rounds of tests and screenings you may be ghosted; just they can't even be bothered to tell you you're no longer in the funnel.
I really don't believe this hiring experience is something inherited or 'caught-up' from other industries.
> If you're a doctor, and you apply for a hospital job, do they at least reply to acknowledge your application? Do they then send a rejection letter if you're simply 'not what they're looking for'? If they then start to consider you as a candidate, do you have to 'trial cure' a couple of patients, take a cell-function exam, and endure 6 rounds of other interviews and screens before getting on the final shortlist?
I think this shows a better version of trade school is needed for software developers; computer science degrees don't seem to be enough to have confidence in someone's abilities. At least doctors have rigorous schooling and training, arguably even a bit too long and expensive.
And I mean the desirable, well-paying jobs, not the $20/hr service/food jobs that anyone can get.