Unshitifying Hiring, Part 4: Ghosting, Gatekeeping & the Grind
Let's call it what it is—modern hiring is a trust crisis. Candidates ghost companies. Companies ghost candidates. Everyone's burned out. Everyone's lying just a little. And the whole process feels like a never-ending performance review you didn't sign up for.
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We've normalized garbage. As job seekers, we now expect to send out 100+ resumes and hear back from 2, to get ghosted after interviews, to talk to 4 people before we learn what the job actually pays, and to be judged by keyword-matching bots instead of actual work. It's not just inefficient—it's demoralizing.
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