Why are people lying so much in the tech industry?
I'm literally hearing lies whenever I speak to recruiters and hiring managers when I ask them about anything like company growth, team building, projects, etc. Even lies on tech stack! Even when the numbers look bad, these guys are "packaging it as an opportunity for development". Wtf?? How are engineers okay with this.
Where are you interviewing lol
Well I interviewed at Zenefits for example. It was a practice company for me but I enjoyed speaking to the team and even considered joining until the red flags popped up. Recruiter was talking how they'll beat Gusto and go public guaranteed in 2 yrs. Evaluation would be 10x what it is now. Hiring manager said there's no way but up. Etc. I wasted a lot of time on the phone patiently hearing them out.
Practice company. So you are a big fat liar too.
Have you never bought anything from a salesperson before?
I didn't know a HM is a salesperson.
They (the whole company including people involved in the process) are selling you a job position. The whole interview process is sales. Then you're exchanging them your time and expertise and they in turn pay you for a service. Its sales.
What do you expect? "We are garbage. Don't consider us." ?
Recruiters and hiring mangers exaggerate truth about the opportunities. I agree. Especially the start ups when they tell you there is no limit to the equity upside. Tech is incredibly well connected and you can get the inside info fairly easily. Interestingly, candidates cant exaggerate about themselves. Interview process at all good companies weeds out those.
Lol literally, these people are pathological. They can't go on for 10 seconds without lying. Recently I spoke to a recruiter from a company (won't reveal which one, just in case), and he ended the conversation with something like "I am calling you from my personal number, not my office number / feel free to msg me anytime you have a question or an issue" literally 10 minutes later, he sents me an email to schedule the next step, and the number he called me from is in his email signature as his office number 😭
it’s not just the tech industry, welcome to the real world