Eh. I think he complains a bit too much, but consider the reverse direction. Why do employers get to be such dicks?
This doesn't happen very often, but every once in a while I get one of these "oh we're so interested, you're so great, you did so well in the interviews ... <silence on the line for 3 weeks>".
Or, when I bother to write you a cover letter, you can bother to write me back 2 sentences, even if you don't want to hire me. "I'm too busy" is not an excuse. I'm busy too! If you can't take the 30 seconds to copy-paste a nicely written canned message and edit it up to let me know you want / don't want me, then you suck. It's just common courtesy, and you're not exempt from it.
You also can't pressure me to make a decision once you've made an offer. I'm going to shop around, just like you shop around. You probably don't have a hiring emergency for the one junior position you're hiring me for, so shove it. Or just hire someone else, but quit calling me to pressure me. I understood the first time. I almost fell for this when I was fresh out of college.
You also really shouldn't be claiming IP rights on unrelated things I work on out of office. That's my business and my work, and I shouldn't need permission from you to own it myself.
Where is the decency? I see this post as a reaction to that frustration.
This doesn't happen very often, but every once in a while I get one of these "oh we're so interested, you're so great, you did so well in the interviews ... <silence on the line for 3 weeks>".
Or, when I bother to write you a cover letter, you can bother to write me back 2 sentences, even if you don't want to hire me. "I'm too busy" is not an excuse. I'm busy too! If you can't take the 30 seconds to copy-paste a nicely written canned message and edit it up to let me know you want / don't want me, then you suck. It's just common courtesy, and you're not exempt from it.
You also can't pressure me to make a decision once you've made an offer. I'm going to shop around, just like you shop around. You probably don't have a hiring emergency for the one junior position you're hiring me for, so shove it. Or just hire someone else, but quit calling me to pressure me. I understood the first time. I almost fell for this when I was fresh out of college.
You also really shouldn't be claiming IP rights on unrelated things I work on out of office. That's my business and my work, and I shouldn't need permission from you to own it myself.
Where is the decency? I see this post as a reaction to that frustration.