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I don't know about fake jobs, but as a ML Engineer looking, my experience has been appalling, …

I don't know about fake jobs, but as a ML Engineer looking, my experience has been appalling, despite all the AI/ML hype. I'm tempted to write a blog post about it, but the highlights are: * More than half of recruiters ghosted me at different stages of the process. * Many companies are unreasonably strict with their requirements, asking for x years of experience in their exact tech stack as a deal breaker. * Pay is much lower than my current company even for more senior roles. * Some positions are just ridiculous. One of them asked for a ML Engineer with experience in React to maintain a website. Another was completely unable to answer what their business do or what the responsibilities of the role are. Overall a far cry of the narrative of ML Engineers fending off recruiters who throw wads of cash trying to recruit them.

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glialHN

It's brutal on the hiring side too, FWIW. I'm getting lots of "cover letters" that are written to other orgs, e.g. Hugging Face.

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mock-possumHN

That’s been my experience too, and it sucks. Looking for a job now is hellish compared to 10 years ago and I kind of don’t know what to do about it. I feel like more in-person connections would be useful, but god I don’t want to start going to meetups and networking and informational interviews again.

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eek2121HN

My biggest complaints about trying to find a job today are: * Recruiters ghosting/not following up. * Companies post dozens of job openings, I apply, nobody follows up (even with a rejection) but keeps posting new positions (looking at you Aha!) The pay issue hasn’t come up except twice. One company wanted a senior engineer, but only wanted to pay 60k/year tops and you would be on call. Another company wanted a “volunteer”. There are other issues for sure. For some companies I do suspect age discrimination, especially with startups.

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commandlinefanHN

> asking for x years of experience in their exact tech stack That's not new, though - that's been going on as long as I've been in this business (early 90's). Most people suspect it's an end-run around H1B requirements: they already have a candidate in mind they want to hire, but they have to demonstrate to the government that they "can't find" a U.S. citizen who has the skillset they need.

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