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.
Money, through the arrival of the masses?, has really sucked the Internet and IT dry.<p>Back then it was "build cool shit".<p>Now it is "extract cool dollars".
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.
> communications with recruiters is so cold now…<p>True-<p>Worse still, Hiring Managers completely divorced from the recruiting process.<p>And C-Levels execs whine they can’t find the right “talent”… Hilarious!