Maybe this is the wrong subreddit – I’ve just had so many experiences (with small companies even) where it was clear no one looked at my resume, then acted surprised when the resume wasn’t an exact cookie cutter fit to what they do. For example, I have several years experience as an EE doing RF testing type of work but am open to other jobs in my field. I had an employer schedule a 4 hour tour and interview only to realize I did not have experience with PLC and low frequency type stuff. They made up an excuse and cut the interview short two hours. I’ve had this happen several other times where employers seem upset when me (an entry level worker a few years out of college) does not have literally the exact experience to work there. Then you always have headhunters spamming you about opportunities where it’s clear you don’t have the experience – if you do follow through with these, you end up wasting your time when someone finds out you don’t have 3-5 designing RF circuits.
It’s like no one wants to train anyone to do anything – you basically have to graduate college with a bachelors and be an expert right from the get go.
There is no mentorship at these companies once you get in either. Where I’m at they claim that they are understaffed (lol) so basically you just get ignored until a menial task needs to be done which is ultimately treated as unimportant. Eventually you learn it’s better to do nothing than to do something and get in trouble/getting thrown under the bus or rock the boat. You basically just get shuffled around on multiple projects aimlessly and can’t get anything done.
Sorry I know this will get downvoted because it’s not the typical “abolish work” post but whatever.