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I had a similar experience back in November when the company I worked for went out of business. Applied to everything that looked even remotely in my ballpark, and crickets. Updated my profile, and got scouted by two different headhunters almost immediately, both with offers better than my old job. My total compensation for one of them was nearly twice what I was making before.
It's kind of fucked though, when the job market is entirely "Don't call us, we'll call you. No, don't even apply until we've told you to." But the stories I've heard of people scamming the interview process are horrendous. They aren't even all Indians! Though most are... Internationalization and AI have really fucked things. The signal to noise ratio interfering between qualified candidates and open job positions is through the roof.
Turns out the bar is in hell, and the primary challenge is convincing a recruiter you are a real person and not an Indian or an LLM. Or an LLM behind a brain rotted meat proxy.
The onboarding for my new job has been an annoyingly long process, and a lot of that seems to be processes to try to stop Indian fraud, including me needing to go to the recruiter's office to show them my ID in person because the client (the company I will actually be working for) had been burned so many times by Indians coming in to interview for different Indians.
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As a side note, the 21 an hour job i was offered was by a company full of Indians. They are so fucking annoying. They keep calling me all the damn time even though i've technically accepted the offer (Which tbh, I'm probably gonna be dropping in favor of the internship.) Its fucking ridiculous. And yes, an obvious #notall, but seriously, why are these companies like this?
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