You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
That’s one thing that’s more profoundly frustrating about the whole mess, these giant carnivorous whales have already taken into account that not every meal they digest is going to be profitable, they make enough money from the ones that do turn a profit that they can write off the destruction of entire, functioning companies for no goddamn reason as “the cost of doing business.”
This is not sustainable.
What you’re describing is just the most pessimistic view towards work broadly, it’s going to feel like that no matter what your hiring process looks like.
It’s more accurate to say that if a company makes you go through extended steps and strings you along, it’s more likely they’re flexing for private equity and have no intention of staying in business.
I did hiring, I needed help, and I did multi-step interviews because I really don’t want to waste time with people who don’t want to work. When your job is managing others, you will be the bad guy to everyone who hates working, and you need to weed those people out before they cost you and other people on the team just trying to get through the day.
That said, 7 steps is absurd, but it’s totally reasonable to expect an interview with your direct manager and one or two more with your direct manager’s boss and/or HR.
Also, group-interviews don’t mean they’re treating you like a performer, that’s again the anti-work pessimism, but it is ridiculous if more than three people are interviewing you in a single meeting, depending on what the work entails.
I’ve been through this a couple times already, when your company is “hiring” and flexes “record profits” but you also see mid-level managers start to disappear and no new people actually start working, you need to understand that it’s the first signs of your whole company is about to get digested by private equity.
It’s the dream of every CEO with a moderately successful company to get the interest of some giant whale of a company who specializes in digesting smaller companies and skimming off just the profitable assets, be it technology or talent or existing clientele. The buyout is usually in the millions, and the private equity company will chew up the remaining employees and company structure like one of those industrial grinders they make youtube channels to watch shred engine blocks and the like.
To get the dark gaze of Sauron to fix upon your company, you have to inflate its value and potential, and that starts with working your numbers to show profit rising and show your need to expand by hiring more people, by creating listings and even whole hiring departments, but not actually do any hiring.
When you come out the other side unemployed, you will then have to wade through about 50% ghost listings from companies who are also trying to do this same thing and won’t return your call or they will make you jump through hoops so they can say they have “new talent in the running” for new openings.
All I know is:
“You’re gonna love Hytale bro, it’s gonna be great bro, just wait bro, seriously, JUST WAIT!” - Everyone, every year since twenty fucking fifteen.
I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with any of this information, I kinda lost investment. If the game is ever done, great I will try it. If not, I won’t be at all surprised.
I swear someone sends me this every year. I’ll wait and see kiddo.
Hytale will come out when we have fusion plants and space elevators. It’s always “just around the corner.”
Ah, the Nothing Ever Happens community not knowing how to look for all the things that are happening.
If you actually tried, you could find a rich tapestry of events, stories, discoveries, and people doing interesting things, it’s that you’ve let large political stories overshadow all of that and are expecting the same level of “Let’s get a streamer reacting to another streamer reacting to a debate between four influencers while subway surfers runs in the corner” level of spectacle.
Make your own spectacle in your head, stop expecting the internet to deliver you dopamine on demand.
Genuinely, this post makes me pissed. I hope OP is a kid or this was an attempt at irony, because adults who feel this way about the world are worthless.