I'm not very put off by silent rejection and in fact consider it a lesser evil than polite rejection or flattering rejection. Actual feedback is the only kind of rejection message that would be useful, but I can only assume that's categorically nonexistent because we live in a litigious society.
Requiring degrees is problematic, but I'm more harmed by aggressively-stated experience requirements. Admittedly, I'm generation X, so I got a degree before the real tuition hyperinflation set in. Which brings me to the subject of age discrimination. Surely IT is on the short list of industries that don't even pretend not to practice age discrimination. So age discrimination always figures prominently on my IT-industry shit list.
Maybe I date myself by saying "IT industry" instead of "tech." That's deliberate message discipline, combating erasure of general technology. Technology is synonymous with "applied science" or perhaps "engineering." Technology includes such diverse disciplines as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, agriculture, medicine, etc.
I agree that I'd rather get an automated rejection, or possibly even ghosted, than some BS passed back to a recruiter like "we just didn't feel like Mike was strong enough in [that language he's been writing in for the last 18 years, while keeping up with modern standards updates and frameworks/libraries]."
I don't call it IT (and I've been doing this 20 years overall) because I worked on the IT side of tech (where I got my formal start after many years of freelancing), and made a lateral move to the software side (again formally, being a freelance developer for years prior as well) after I realized the pay in IT would continue to suck no matter how many certs I got nor what an infosec rockstar I might become.
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I'm not very put off by silent rejection and in fact consider it a lesser evil than polite rejection or flattering rejection. Actual feedback is the only kind of rejection message that would be useful, but I can only assume that's categorically nonexistent because we live in a litigious society.
Requiring degrees is problematic, but I'm more harmed by aggressively-stated experience requirements. Admittedly, I'm generation X, so I got a degree before the real tuition hyperinflation set in. Which brings me to the subject of age discrimination. Surely IT is on the short list of industries that don't even pretend not to practice age discrimination. So age discrimination always figures prominently on my IT-industry shit list.
Maybe I date myself by saying "IT industry" instead of "tech." That's deliberate message discipline, combating erasure of general technology. Technology is synonymous with "applied science" or perhaps "engineering." Technology includes such diverse disciplines as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, agriculture, medicine, etc.
I agree that I'd rather get an automated rejection, or possibly even ghosted, than some BS passed back to a recruiter like "we just didn't feel like Mike was strong enough in [that language he's been writing in for the last 18 years, while keeping up with modern standards updates and frameworks/libraries]."
I don't call it IT (and I've been doing this 20 years overall) because I worked on the IT side of tech (where I got my formal start after many years of freelancing), and made a lateral move to the software side (again formally, being a freelance developer for years prior as well) after I realized the pay in IT would continue to suck no matter how many certs I got nor what an infosec rockstar I might become.