33 year-old generalist developer working towards a career change into the tech world with an interested in software, the web, minimalism, and acoustics/dsp.
I summoned the energy to shoot off 6 messages to mostly developers (and a couple of recruiters) through a combination of email and LinkedIn. No responses.
It seems like the hiring process has been abstracted away from the human level at most companies. I mean, I read blog posts from a couple years ago and it talks about communicating with the person in involved in the hiring process, but I haven't seen a human face to any of the job postings I've seen. It is all just these 'middleware' hiring companies handling the front of the process.
That being said, I think this is leading me to a more effective job search approach. See a job you like? Message someone at the company. Put together a more customized application for that company. At some point something has got to give, right?
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I summoned the energy to shoot off 6 messages to mostly developers (and a couple of recruiters) through a combination of email and LinkedIn. No responses.
It seems like the hiring process has been abstracted away from the human level at most companies. I mean, I read blog posts from a couple years ago and it talks about communicating with the person in involved in the hiring process, but I haven't seen a human face to any of the job postings I've seen. It is all just these 'middleware' hiring companies handling the front of the process.
That being said, I think this is leading me to a more effective job search approach. See a job you like? Message someone at the company. Put together a more customized application for that company. At some point something has got to give, right?