[FireBeyond]

In the product space... I get that this is a seller's market, but it's frustrating to see job applications that have (in Aha's) case "write 14 paragraphs of detailed and specific breakdowns of x and y and z before we'll even decide if we'll speak to you".

We all want to get away from AI slop, etc., but after having been burned one too many times by "perform an hour or more of work in applying for this job to not even get anything more than acknowledgment of receipt followed by crickets", I see that, and I turn away.

[mercury4063]

I've seen this company advertise this job every place they can and I applied to them a bunch and never once heard back. These guys are a certified Fake Job Poster.

[FireBeyond]

I have thoughts on WellFound (formerly AngelList)...

Is Wellfound a scam? Or has it become one?

I'd been on the job market four months. Every day I did the rounds: Levels, Wellfound, YC/jobs, Glassdoor, Indeed, LinkedIn.

It is what it is, as a crappy jobs market.

Wellfound? I didn't ever hear from anything from their job ads.

And I'm pretty certain that whatever Wellfound/AngelList was, it has become a company that just markets resume writing, resume review, all sorts of other services that draw in your money somehow.

Why do I say that?

80+ applications on Wellfound since then. Crickets.

One day I got an email, "Your profile has been viewed!". Weird, never seen an email like that from Wellfound. Indeed, "You have 1 profile view in the last 90 days".

Huh. 80+ applications, 80+ times me answering content questions on "why you would be a good fit for this role", "tell us about x and y and z", no interviews, no contact, only ONE company has ever even viewed my profile (and for what it's worth, it's not a company that has any positions open).

Well, maybe my answers suck, you say. Maybe my resume isn't as impressive as I think it is.

But similar answers and the same resume get me fairly steady hits on every other site I mentioned, I've got to multiple final rounds, I've been explicitly told I was hirable, I was just the number two, I was "in the top three".

And to be clear, many of the companies I see on WF are advertising on other sites too.

My suspicion? WF does take job listings, but they also harvest them from other sites - the job is real, but there's no-one from the employer reviewing the applications to their "phantom" job... and meanwhile all people like me are doing are providing content for WF to harvest for their AI-driven resume writing and review service and other products.

My AI video interview? Viewed... zero times.

Huh.

[adamors]

Thanks for this comment, I've applied a couple of times through WF and the results were the same (not as many times as you did but still). However, I did find a couple of companies through WF but then contacted a recruiter on Linkedin and that did lead to a call or two. YMMV.

[FireBeyond]

That's how I ended up using it. If WF had a promising position, I'd go to the company's site directly and apply that way.

[ILoveHorses]

I'm in a similar position. Hiring seems dead at the moment, literally nothing works.

[jnettome]

Same feeling here and similar experience