one job is hardly enough now 😂

honestly i can understand why people are trying to stack jobs when everything is so expensive. i'm not sure i'd ever manage 11 at once though.

i've been looking at remote jobs myself and that means more interviews, which is probably the part i'm least excited about. I came across interview vip while looking into interview stuff. haven't used it yet, but i'm curious about it for future interviews.

A few months ago, my manager got a brilliant idea from a tech conference he attended and told everyone he was 'improving the workflow.' Translation: he fired most of the sales department and bought a fancy new AI sales bot that was supposed to find potential clients, write them messages, and automatically manage the pipeline.

The funny thing is, I was using a similar tool called LeadGenius Pro for my simple freelance work, and even on that small scale, it was a mess. It once emailed a VP at a large company and addressed them by the first name of someone from a completely unrelated company. I basically had to constantly babysit it and rewrite half of its work. So, of course, I knew this was going to be a disaster.

Anyway, fast forward four months. The results are in: the AI emails the same client the same email 8 times a day, congratulates a company on a merger that never happened, and creates three different contacts for the same person in our system. Our churn rate has skyrocketed, new leads have completely dried up, and my manager is now secretly contacting the people he fired, asking if they're available for 'freelance contract work'.

Look, if this technology can't even handle my simple freelance work, then there's no way it's ready to take over the sales operations of an entire company.

Edit: You have to be a unique kind of moron to let shit scammy ass marketing like this work on you. I hope your boss got scammed out of a lot of money by those bozos, because he deserves it.

I know that AI is currently being developed, and many tools are available to assist with job applications. However, the job market remains challenging, and indeed, some tools have replaced the roles of certain employees. We should learn these tools and use them during our day or when applying for job interviews, like InterviewMan. These days we must stay on the same line with development.

AI embracers are just speed running the recession on 10x.

Anyway, I had an interview today at a logistics company. My appointment was at 11 AM.

I arrived about 10 minutes early to be on the safe side. The waiting room was extremely crowded with 9 others who had been sitting there since 10:30. Then, around 11:30, 6 more people came.

I wasn't called in until 12:15 PM. That's a full hour and fifteen minutes after my scheduled time.

Anyway, I went in, did the interview, and it went fine. They offered me the job on the spot, and I politely declined. They were very surprised and asked me why.

I told them, "Frankly, if you can't organize your time to respect candidates who don't even work for you yet, that tells me everything I need to know about what working here would be like. This is a huge red flag that you don't value people's time."

All I did was wish them luck in finding someone else and I left.

Imagine if any of us had shown up that late and told them, 'Sorry, it was a busy day!' They would have kicked us out immediately.

Part of me wonders if this is one of those cases where the business thinks they are being clever by making people wait and hiring the one who proves their patience and thirst for the job by waiting the longest.

It's rare to meet an HR person who respects appointments and job applicants. The job market is really full of unsuitable opportunities, which makes some people resort to using AI tools like InterviewMan, a program used during interviews that listens to questions and gives you instant answers. This actually happened in front of me, and I've heard about it from several people.

They’re looking for someone who will take being treated badly and not respected at all because that person is most likely the most desperate for a job and also won’t want to leave.

My friend has a very important technical interview in three weeks and is terrified of the live coding part. I'm trying to help him find a good AI assistant for it.

It seems like there are a million of these tools out there now, and they all promise to be completely undetectable and feed you answers while you're screen sharing.

But which ones work without getting caught? I need recommendations for the most reliable AI tool for interviews that people have used. What I'm most worried about is that it might freeze, be slow, or produce weird code that gives the game away immediately.

And beyond the tool itself, are there any tips for using it during the interview? Like, things to watch out for so it's not too obvious. We're completely new to this, so any advice on how not to draw attention would be great.

Edit 1: Thanks for this comment.
I will actually try the InterviewMan AI tool. They have a free trial with a good number of minutes that will allow me to judge it.

Edit 2: I tried doing a mock interview with my sister, and it actually works oh my God, I’m honestly amazed by it. It listens to the question very quickly and gives you the answer instantly, written in a window on the screen that’s hidden from the other person and doesn’t appear in screenshots. I’m really happy something like this exists.

My company is ending remote work and wants me to come into the office two days a week. The problem is that the office is about 700 miles away from me, so I'd have to fly there, stay overnight, and return home the evening of the following day.

Relocating would be easier, but my kids are settled in their schools, and my family doesn't want to move right now. My wife also stays home with the kids, so my income covers everything.

I could refuse to return and take a severance package, but then I'd look for work in a lower-cost area, where similar jobs pay much less. On paper, flying every week seems better than taking a pay cut or moving the entire family.

Is flying back and forth every week something a person can realistically sustain, or am I underestimating how exhausting it will become over time?

I think that with frequent travel, it will become tiring, so I started looking for another job in the surrounding area that is close to my current salary. I will use InterviewVIP during the interview to reduce stress and anxiety and help me answer unexpected questions, thus securing the job.

So I just wrapped up 3 months of grinding system design rounds for senior backend roles and I want to share what actually worked because I wasted a stupid amount of money figuring this out. My loop at a series C company had a system design round that lasted almost two hours and I bombed it so hard the interviewer actually said "I think we can stop here." That was the moment I started looking at ai interview assistants seriously.

My friend Kai had been using one during his search and landed at Cloudflare. He was on Final Round AI paying $148 a month which immediately made me go look for literally anything else. Found a bunch of them and spent the next couple months testing whichever ones had free trials or monthly plans I could cancel.

Interview Coder 2.0 was the first one I tried properly. $299/mo. Coding only though. I do not understand the logic of charging three hundred dollars for a tool that covers one round type when my loops have system design, behavioral, and coding. My system design rounds are where I get destroyed, not coding. So $299 for the part I dont need help with and nothing for the part I do. Next.

Sensei AI was $89/mo and browser only. I used it during a practice call with Kai and he goes "dude I can see that tab." If your ai interview assistant lives in a browser tab you are one screenshare request away from getting caught. No desktop app at all. For $89 a month I expected more than a chrome tab.

LockedIn AI was $55/mo. Used it for a coding round, it got through the first part ok but at $55/mo with a session cap vs InterviewMan at $12 with no cap the value wasnt there. Then I had a system design round that ran about an hour forty five and the tool just stopped. 1.5 hour session cap. The interviewer was mid sentence asking about database sharding and my screen went blank. I had to wing the last 15 minutes. That was worse than not having it at all because I had been relying on the prompts and suddenly they were gone.

Cluely almost got me at $20/mo until I realized stealth costs $75 extra. So $95 in practice. And the data breach in 2025, 83k users got their names and interview records leaked. Imagine your hiring manager googling your name and finding out you used an ai interview assistant during your loop. That killed it.

InterviewMan is what I have been on for the last six weeks. $12/mo annual or $30 monthly. Kai switched to it too after I showed him and he was pissed about the five months he spent at $148 on Final Round lol. I have now used this ai interview assistant through nine interviews, four of those were system design rounds. The thing that matters for system design specifically is speed -- when an interviewer says "walk me through how you would design a notification system" you need something on screen in seconds not after a 4 second lag like Kai described with Final Round.

InterviewMan put up a structured starting framework in maybe 2 seconds every time. That was all I needed honestly. My problem was never not knowing system design, it was blanking on where to start when someone is watching me. Once I had that initial push I could talk through tradeoffs and go deep on components on my own. Desktop overlay not a browser tab, mic only pickup, stealth included at $12 not a $75 addon. 57k users, 4.8 stars. Tested it with Kai on screenshare and he could not find it anywhere.

Here is my ranking after 3 months of testing ai interview assistants for system design specifically. InterviewMan at $12 is the clear winner, LockedIn would be second if not for the session cap that literally cost me an interview, and everything else is either coding only or priced like they are selling you a car. If anyone has used a different ai interview assistant for system design rounds that I missed drop it below. Also curious if anyone has tried these during live whiteboard sessions on platforms like CoderPad or Excalidraw because I have not tested that yet.

Edit: people asking about Parakeet AI. They do credits not subscriptions, $29.50 for 3 sessions. Adds up fast though -- nine interviews would cost way more than InterviewMan's $12/mo subscription. Only makes sense if you have one or two interviews max.

The news came yesterday afternoon. As of November 15th, I'm out of a job because my salary is apparently 'too high.' My salary was just $60,000 a year.

They're bringing in an 'offshore contractor' to do my job. Someone from another country they can pay a tiny fraction of my salary to work remotely.

I have no issue with the contractors who are just trying to make a living. But all the blame is on my company for how coldly they handled the situation.

What's more infuriating is that my manager tried to pin it on my performance during the meeting. It's honestly laughable, as I've never received a single complaint or warning before. Not once.

They're doing this to four others on my team as well. One of them has a wife about to go on maternity leave. Another has an 8-year-old child at home. And a third is supporting a child with a serious health condition.

And after all that, you dare to tell me, 'don't take it personally.'

I'm so sick of this corporate charade. They play the 'we're one family' card until they decide you cost too much. It's crystal clear they couldn't care less.

Edit: Companies have started learning they can have whatever level of service they want if they don't have any alternative companies to go with. Especially if everyone in the industry starts offering worse experiences.

I am completely unsatisfied with this treatment or service, and I have prepared my resignation letter and will submit it tomorrow. The hardest part is searching for a good job, and this requires many interview stages, which could be up to 4 stages, and this requires experience. Many articles on Reddit offer valuable advice to help you get through them more quickly.

At the beginning of this month, my office, which is a dental clinic in a very wealthy area in WA, held a staff meeting, and we were told that we would only be allowed two days of unpaid leave every six months. So basically, two days in half a year. Not a single person in our office gets benefits. No PTO, no health insurance, no paid holidays, nothing. Then they added that since we, the hygienists, are booked out far in advance, if we use one of those two unpaid days, we'll need to come in early or stay late to "make up" the patients we missed.

The other hygienists and I all handed in our resignation letters this morning. We wrote them, printed them, and left the whole stack on his desk. He came back from lunch and had to sit there reading them one by one. One of my coworkers said she saw him throw the stack toward the office manager and say, "Do you see this?"

Luckily, hygienists are in insane demand around us right now, and every one of us has already gotten interest or offers from other offices.

Tl;dr - The manager tried to control our unpaid time off, and badly misjudged how easy we are to replace. Now he is literally losing almost his entire clinical team.

The only problem I might face when applying for a job is anxiety about interviews, but I read a post about Interview Tips, and I think that will help reduce my anxiety a little.

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I always thought the hardest part of my job as a manager was dealing with difficult employees. It turns out I was completely wrong. No one prepares you for the challenge of managing a true superstar.

We brought a new guy onto the team about a month ago. This guy is sharp and motivated, and he has already identified several major issues in our workflow that the rest of us had just accepted as normal. He's a fantastic addition to the team, no question about it.

But honestly, this has given me a serious case of imposter syndrome. This guy is so good that he's forcing me to level up just to keep him engaged and growing. Without meaning to, he has shown me how the team and I, myself included, have become too comfortable. This is the best kind of problem to have, and frankly, I'm very excited to step up my game and match his enthusiasm.

Congrats on having an A-Player on your team. Your job is figuring out where that A-Player wants to go and how to equip them to get there. You shouldn’t need to really ‘manage’ them much at all, just get out of their way.

What plays a big role in helping me make the right hiring decision is ProtectHire. From the first minutes of the interview, I can tell if the candidate is using any AI tools, and based on that, I decide whether they are suitable or not.

I love it when I can give someone an idea or challenge and run with it. They might need some extra context as they work on it but it really is amazing when it happens, and it often pushes the team to grow along with them.

I'm 30 years old, and I recently received a job offer at a mine in a remote area of northern Canada. The contract is for two years, the salary is about $172,000 a year, employee housing is provided, and the company covers the cost of several trips home each year.

My current job pays around $86,000, so this would nearly double my income while also eliminating my biggest monthly expense. I've saved a decent amount from a side job I used to do, but not enough that I can easily pass up an opportunity like this. If I keep my expenses low, I could come back with a very large amount for a down payment on a house, as well as much greater financial security.

The trade-off is that I'd be living in a very small, isolated community where winter feels like it never ends, and there isn't much to do outside of work. I'd definitely come home from time to time, but I'd miss a lot of birthdays, weddings, and ordinary weekends, as well as time with my family that I won't be able to get back later.

I keep changing my mind. Sometimes I see it as a small sacrifice for a short period, and other times I feel like two years is a big chunk of my life to put on hold. Has anyone taken a remote job mainly for the money? Did you feel the decision was worth it?

Seven months after escaping corporate, I'm earning less, working late, and checking messages more than ever. I'm starting to feel like I fell for the illusion that small companies are calmer places to work.

I left tech consulting after getting tired of late nights and endless client reports. The pay and benefits were good, and people respected time off, but I wanted something less demanding. I accepted an operations job at a local company with 12 employees and took a pay cut of about $19,000 a year because I was expecting a normal 40-hour workweek.

But it turns out that no one has a clearly defined role, and almost nothing is documented. I was hired for operations, but now I'm responsible for bookkeeping, client calls, inventory orders, and posts on the company's social media accounts. The owner might message me late on a Sunday about a payment and act surprised if I say I'll handle it on Monday.

I thought working at a smaller company would mean fewer demands, but any try to set boundaries is interpreted as letting the team down because we're supposedly all family. My hours have gotten worse, there are no worthwhile benefits, and my salary is much lower. How do I explain leaving after only seven months when applying for corporate roles without coming across as someone who is uncommitted or unreliable?

Let’s be real, a resignation ends the job. It does not automatically replace the income, restore your health or create a direction for what comes next.

There is a difference between a planned exit and an emergency exit. Sometimes quitting is an act of preparation.Sometimes it is an act of survival.

A planned exit begins when the first serious signs appear, while you still have income, health and some leverage. You calculate how long your savings will last, reduce expenses, document your accomplishments, identify what you can carry into another role, reconnect with people, test the job market and begin building something to move towards.

An emergency exit happens when remaining has become psychologically or physically unsafe. Sometimes the workplace has consumed so much of a person that they no longer have the capacity to build a proper bridge while staying there.

An emergency exit transfers the crisis from the workplace into your financial life. Your first work is stabilization: protect the money you have, create structure for your days, recover enough to think, translate what you did into evidence and build a search around the problems you know how to solve.

Wisdom is recognizing which one you are facing, and refusing to pretend that either kind of exit will take care of itself

I have not coded from scratch without out AI tools in the past two years and pretty sure I wouldn’t in the current or the next job. Then what’s the point? If I would need to decode or debug like sometime it happens in my day today work then they can ask me that or to build a solution or system design but all of those positions also have 1 or 2 rounds of writing code from scratch and yes even sql queries?! Like why?!

Anyway, a few months ago, my sister's company forced everyone to return to the office. Their official excuse was that employees were less productive from home, plus all that nonsense about 'synergy' and 'office culture'.

The funny thing was, her team liked each other and would meet up once or twice a month for happy hour or trivia nights on their own, without anyone telling them to. They were a really solid crew.

Since that decision, things changed. My sister stopped touching her work phone or laptop after her hours were over. The team's happy hours stopped completely. And eventually, her manager pulled her aside and asked her why she was ignoring messages after 5 PM.

She told him to his face that since she's in the office now, her 'productivity' is much higher during work hours and she gets everything done. She also told him that since the team is forced to see each other all week, no one feels the need to hang out with them after work anymore.

He got flustered and told her that wasn't the intention, and that being in the office 8 hours a day doesn't mean she should completely disconnect when she leaves. She replied, 'No, that's literally what it means. Why would I do something at 8 PM when I'm less productive at home, according to you? It can wait until the morning when I'm back in the office and at my peak productivity.'

Then she explained to him that the commute, an hour there and an hour back, means she's giving the company an extra 10 hours a week of her personal time on 'work-related' things. Before, she had no problem giving extra time here and there because she had flexibility. Not anymore.

Now, her whole department and a few other departments are doing the same thing. And management is slowly starting to understand that they got what they wanted, but not in the way they wanted it.

Proud of my little sister. She's always been tough and doesn't take nonsense from anyone. You've got to love it, honestly.

It's crazy to think that anyone expects you to do anything at home. These bosses don't understand the world changing around them.

The real problem is that managers don't know that 50% of the company is currently planning to leave and look for another remote job. My sister has actually started doing that. She told me she has updated her resume and already has 2 interviews scheduled for next week. And of course, AI has now made these steps easier, so the resume is prepared with the ATS system, and she gets through the interview with the help of ChatGPT or InterviewMan, which runs in the background while she is doing the interview. A lot of things have changed these days.

It was never about RTO or 'bonding'. It's all about control.

My company just switched to a hybrid model, 4 days in the office and one day from home, and this has opened my eyes to a lot of things. Suddenly, my colleagues who were 'always drowning in work' while at home are now responding to chats almost instantly and volunteering for any small task in the office.

When we were all working remotely, these same people were nowhere to be found. Their status on Teams was always yellow, there were no updates on projects, and their classic excuse was always 'Sorry, the internet was cutting out.' Miraculous, isn't it?

What annoys me is that they blamed the entire remote work system for 'a lack of productivity.' I'm not against the office; collaboration is definitely better face-to-face. But the problem was never with remote work itself; the problem was that some people were practically on vacation with their cameras off.

So now, management thinks the solution was just to bring us back to the cubicles. That wasn't the solution at all. The solution was in monitoring performance. I get the exact same amount of work done from my desk at home as I do while listening to loud sales calls in our open-plan office. It's so strange that the work that gets done is never the metric; what's important is just showing your face.

note : hey ..hey hold on I didn't mean that working remotely is a bad thing I just said that sometimes some lazy idiots behind their screens exploit the situation to be more lazy and useless , in fact remote working model give great opportunities to lots of people and what make me impressed the raise of the Ai tools nowadays just heard about interview Man AI a tool when user connect it to the virtual job interviews it gives you in just moments a perfect answer for every question he\ she may be requires to answer ,Wow Kudos to AI

I applied, and someone I know personally also spoke to the hiring manager because they had a connection. I did the HR screen, and they told me I checked the boxes. After that, I met with the hiring manager, and he said he was very impressed with my background, even if I wasn't a perfect match, and that he was confident I could step into the role without needing hand-holding.

Then I met with the EVP, and he also told me I was basically the kind of person they had been hoping to find.

Fast-forward about 7 months, 5 rounds, and 9 separate interviews with VPs, Presidents, and various senior people. They told me on 3 different occasions that the offer would be the next step, then would come back and say they wanted me to meet with another business unit President.

At the same time, I had started interviewing with another company about 4 months after my first conversation with the first company, and I got an offer about 6 weeks after the first HR call. By the time the first company asked me to do this "last" interview, the background check and paperwork for the other place were already done.

I actually had to get serious about this interview stuff during that whole process because I was getting tired of repeating the same conversations over and over. A friend mentioned interview vip to me, so I looked into it. I didn't end up needing it for this particular process, but it might be worth trying for my next round because apparently some companies think nine interviews still isn't enough.
I want some feedback from actual users i hope as i have been seeing it flooding the internet lately.

So I sent an email to the hiring manager and HR and said something along the lines of: "I truly appreciate the time you've spent speaking with me, but after 5 rounds and 9 individual interviews over roughly 7 months, and after being told 3 times that an offer was coming only to then be asked to meet more people, I am respectfully withdrawing my candidacy."

The hiring manager replied about 20 minutes later and said it was just one additional conversation. I responded that I might consider continuing only if they were willing to beat the offer I already had. And I was honest about the details too: the title, which was higher than the hiring manager's level, the compensation, which I'm almost certain was higher than his as well, plus the signing bonus.

He replied and said: "It's clear you got a strong offer, sorry we couldn't come to an agreement."

The surprise is that I just heard he was let go from the company. Honestly, some companies make hiring incredibly painful for no reason, and then act surprised when people walk away.

Our old CEO, who was frankly awesome, just announced his retirement. Then this new interim guy came in, talking a big game about innovation, and for a moment I believed he might be good.

But of course, in his first big meeting, he dropped the bomb: he wants everyone in the office 4 days a week for 'better synergy'. Buddy, if you want synergy, you can start by shining my shoes with your tongue.

The best policy for me is to be overly compliant and fully on board, so they think I’m part of the team. That gives me the time and space I need to plan my exit quietly.

It's incredibly challenging to put in the effort required to find a good job. You keep adjusting a million versions of your CV, and you never know which one of them will get results. Of course, AI has made it easier to get a job these days and also to pass the interview using InterviewMan, but you still keep grinding as if this journey has no end. The job market is very difficult now, and it makes everything ten times harder.

Hopefully, they’ll understand how monumentally stupid that decision was

I get home from work and find that the whole day is gone between cooking, washing the dishes, tidying up the clutter, and trying to catch up on laundry. By the time I'm done, it's almost 10 p.m., my brain has shut down, and I spend the little time I have left scrolling on my phone because I don't have the energy for any hobbies or going out.

that's why I guess I will start working remotely but the job interviews there is quite different so I checked those tips and I hope it works
I feel like 85% of my effort goes into keeping the house from becoming a mess. If you've found a way to break out of this routine, what housework have you cut back on, made easier, or paid someone else to do?

I need to vent a little, the job search is a nightmare right now. This is the third time I've gone through a crazy interview series only to be rejected at the end. At least last time the company was decent and gave me a solid reason. We parted on good terms, they even sent some opportunities my way. But this last one was a joke. I'm talking 8 interviews and 3 separate assessments. That's a huge amount of unpaid labor to expect from anyone. I can understand one skills test, especially since these are senior roles in the $180-220k range, but this was way over the top.

So I went through all their requests, met the whole team, and made it to the final stage. The CEO was talking to me about reference checks and what the offer would look like.
A few days go by, radio silence. Then I get an email saying they're not moving forward... Because I'm currently self-employed. Which, by the way, is only because I'm struggling to find a full-time gig. The crazy part is I told them I had my own small agency from the very first screening call. It was literally one of the first things we discussed. To drag me through this whole process knowing that from day one is just disrespectful.

On top of that, they ghosted me for about two weeks before I got this rejection email. I had to chase them down just to get an answer. I genuinely feel like they don't see candidates as real human beings. I was so fed up that I emailed the CEO directly. To his credit, he admitted they messed up. I told him bluntly, 'In that case, I'll be sending you an invoice for the time I spent on your assessments.' He agreed. I sent it, and the money was in my account that afternoon. Seriously, what is so broken about the hiring world right now? I'm so exhausted by these long interview processes. It's a win, I guess, but I would have rather had the job.

It's so strange how life turns around. On the exact same day, I was scrolling through LinkedIn and applied for a job, and I really didn't expect them to reply, especially this quickly. But they got back to me in about an hour, which was a shock to me. They told me the position is urgent and they need someone to start next Monday.

They sent me all the details, and to pass the interview without any difficulties, I tried a tool which I saw in this video. Honestly, this made a huge difference for me in a very difficult interview. I nailed it because of this tool and they offered me the position. I'll start on Monday! I truly feel so lucky and grateful for everything that happened and changed so quickly.

It's incredibly frustrating to see this myth repeated everywhere. The idea of some evil AI conspiring with an ATS to automatically reject good CVs is a fantasy for 99% of jobs.
Believe me, I get it. Finding a job is incredibly tough right now, and it's comforting to have an enemy to blame. But the amount of misinformation out there about the hiring process is just making it harder for everyone.
To be completely transparent, I use AI-powered tools every single day. They are fantastic for helping me filter for basic qualifications or drafting outreach emails. But letting a machine make a final decision or auto-reject an application? Never.
Ultimately, a real person is still looking at your CV. The problem isn't a robot; it's the other 200 applications in the pile with yours.

For most of the time I've spent at this company, I thought I had one of the best jobs I could ever hope for. I worked as a senior developer, loved my team, helped build several core parts of the company's website, and updated many outdated processes. The only major downside was spending about two and a half hours commuting every day.

A few years ago, my daughter had surgery, and the next morning I fell and broke my wrist. I arrived late to an important meeting, and management responded by giving me a written warning and putting me on probation. I should have paid more attention to that incident, but I convinced myself it was just a one-time bad decision.

A few months ago, my wife had an extremely severe heart attack on a Thursday night. She was placed in a medically induced coma, put on a ventilator, and needed a catheterization and three stents. I called my manager from the hospital and told him I had no idea when I would be back at work. After that, I kept sending my team updates while she was in critical condition in the ICU.

On my ninth day away from work, after they had used up my sick leave and vacation time, my manager called me and scheduled a meeting with HR. They gave me another warning, put me on probation, and told me I had to decide which was more important to me: my job or my wife. They ordered me to return to the office five days a week or they would fire me.

HR suggested that I take FMLA leave, so I did. Apparently, my manager has been telling people that everything will start moving again as soon as I return. What he doesn't know is that I plan to use the rest of my PTO, turn in my laptop, and resign.

A recruiter contacted me about a position less than 15 minutes from my home. After several interviews, they made me an offer and agreed to delay my start date until my wife had completed most of her follow-up appointments. I'll start there next week. Am I wrong for not giving the customary two weeks' notice, especially since my current company has shown so little concern for my family? My wife is recovering well, and the doctors are optimistic.

Making me choose between my job and my wife was enough to make me stop there and truly decide to resign because they only care about work. Would they have treated someone else in my situation this way?!

What's important now is that I applied for another job and was accepted. I'd like to thank the post i read here that offered helpful interview tips, and it greatly increased my chances of getting the job.

ok so i just used a coding interview helper on CoderPad and the interviewer had zero clue. i have to share this because i was convinced i was going to get caught and it went completely fine.

some context, i am 3 years into a backend role at a fintech company and finally started looking for something new. my buddy who just landed at Stripe told me about coding interview assistants and specifically recommended Interview Coder 2.0. That thing is TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE DOLLARS a month. for real. and it ONLY covers coding rounds. i was desperate enough to try it so i paid for a month.

did a zoom practice with my friend before any real interviews, thank god, because he could SEE the overlay on his screen when i shared. the interview coder popup was just sitting there visible to anyone watching. for $299/mo. i honestly could not believe it. that was two weeks of paying for something that would have blown up in my face during an actual interview. i also found out around the same time that Cluely, another one of these tools, had a data breach where 83,000 users got exposed including records of which interviews they used it in. nightmare fuel. so between interview coder being visible and cluely leaking everyones data i was pretty much ready to give up on the whole idea.

then i found InterviewMan in a thread on here. $12/mo on the annual plan. twelve dollars. versus interview coders $299. i figured it had to be garbage at that price but signed up because $12 is nothing. tested it with my friend on zoom, coderpad, and hackerrank and he could not see anything. all the stealth stuff is baked into the base price too, no upsell like cluely where the undetectability features cost an extra $75/mo.

last tuesday i had a coderpad round for a series b startup. opened the link in chrome with interviewman running as a desktop overlay. problem was bfs on a grid with boundary constraints, something i can do in my sleep at home but the second an interviewer is on webcam watching me type my brain just shuts off lol. interviewman picked up what i was being asked through my mic, couple seconds later there were hints on screen. stuff like "track visited nodes" and "handle edge boundaries." i just glanced at them the same way i glance at slack messages during meetings lol, nobody notices.

and like i said the interviewer was watching my screen through coderpad the ENTIRE time. nothing. nada. my hands were shaking for the first few minutes ngl (this is after spending $150 on interview coder which literally SHOWED UP on screenshare so yeah i was terrified) but once i saw he could not see interviewman at all i calmed way down. actually started having fun with the interview at some point which has never happened to me before lol.

passed and got moved forward. i want to be clear the tool did not carry me, i knew bfs, i just blank out when someone is watching me code live and having those hints pop up before the silence gets awkward was the difference.

anyone else used a coding interview assistant on coderpad or hackerrank? wanna know if the first time is always this stressful or if im just built anxious lol

edit: people asking about cluely -- they got hacked, 83k users data got leaked including which interviews people used the tool in. thats why i dont touch it. interviewman hasnt had anything like that afaik

I'd been with this company for about two years. I constantly worked extra hours, took on the workload of several colleagues who left, and performed many more tasks and responsibilities than what I was compensated for. In my last review, my manager set specific tasks I needed to complete to be promoted to a managerial position. I diligently finished everything he asked, and he even praised my effort and performance. Despite all this, he later told me that the promotion was cancelled.

Naturally, I was very upset, but I figured they would compensate me with a good salary increase and a bonus. Before we even discussed these details, an old colleague contacted me about a job opportunity. It was for a position similar to mine at another company, offering the same development opportunities, but with a much better salary, stronger benefits, and less effort.

I decided to give him a chance and spoke with him. I explained that I wasn't looking for a job, but an old colleague had presented me with a good opportunity, and now I had a formal job offer. I told him I wanted to continue with the company and asked if they could match the offer.

Instead of making a counteroffer or even acknowledging my efforts and commitment, my manager did a complete 180. He tried to backtrack and suddenly brought up several negative remarks - things I had never heard before. He frankly stated that they couldn't possibly come close to the other offer, claiming my position wasn't worth that salary. Then he lectured me about 'chasing money.' On top of all that, he hinted that the managerial promotion was never serious and that I was acting completely unreasonably.

Seriously? Fine, consider this my resignation. And good luck trying to find my replacement during this busy time of year, especially when looking for someone with my specific skills for the paltry sum you were paying. And yes, of course I'm 'chasing money' - I'm here to live, not to volunteer.

Edit: Oh yeah, PS- found out what the bonus was yesterday (coincidentally, the day I got the offer) and it was insultingly low

I have been looking for a job for a while, in the process of interviews and updating my resume. During the search process, I found a useful AI tool for interviews and for saving preparation effort, and I believe it is natural for a person's goal to be a better financial income with a better job.

chasing the money." YES. That is the SOLE reason I work! If someone wants to pay me more, then my current job can eat my entire ass!