I was looking in my old email account and enjoyed seeing the liveliness of communication in old comms from companies like HortonWorks, Firebase, Whatsapp. Firstly, I feel communications with recruiters is so cold now (e.g, hello, yes the interview works, ok you've been rejected/move on to next round) and two I feel like silicon valley eight to tweleve years ago was a much friendlier place. I don't feel the same appeal from startup names now as companies like Klout, etc. carried back then - maybe each company is working on a little smaller niche of the industry, maybe I've gotten too old to appreciate crypto, but it was nice seeing how enthusiastic, hopeful, and happy silicon valley was a decade a go.
I've never bought into the "making the world a better place" meme. Even 10 years ago. However, I do certainly agree that back in the days recruiters were much better at communicating and some would even have add actual value to the job searching/interviewing process. Nowadays I might as well be speaking to a bot.
I think all the interpersonal connection eventually got removed since it started becoming more overtly about the money.
> communications with recruiters is so cold now…
True-
Worse still, Hiring Managers completely divorced from the recruiting process.
And C-Levels execs whine they can’t find the right “talent”… Hilarious!
I don’t know what happened, but around mid-December I just stopped getting any contact from recruiters.
Keep calm and build your ai avatar app :)
Money, through the arrival of the masses?, has really sucked the Internet and IT dry.
Back then it was "build cool shit".
Now it is "extract cool dollars".