Galley from HH or cheap Junes
Recently, HeadHunter sent out an announcement of a secret collaboration with a notorious course factory. I blurred it out in the screenshot so that there would be no complaints. Let's call her “Google.Theorium”. I talked about the details of the project with its curator from HH. A rather unpleasant picture has emerged; first I will give the facts, then we will draw conclusions.
The essence
Our meeting with the project curator lasted an hour. Due to the law on the protection of personal data, I cannot post the recording, but all the information was obtained first-hand.
Course graduates are given unbiased interview working engineers. So far hh employees, then it is planned to create a network accredited companies, trust them with testing. For example, a free sir sits on an outsource, he receives an application for an interview, he conducts it and gives feedback.
The customer needs a cheap developer, but he’s too lazy to look through hundreds of responses and doesn’t have time for selection. He contacts HH, they send him June’s resume and the outcome of the interview. You can agree, or ask to look at other options. “See everyone” – you can’t, strictly one at a time. The customer enters into a service agreement with HH, and the developer himself is employed by HH according to the GPC.
Payment in the first two months is 36k before taxes, every 2 months it rises: 42k, 56k, 78k… After a year of work, the payment rises to 200k and remains that way. “Payment”not “salary”because it is not clear how much the employee himself receives after deducting the HH commission.
If you like the employee, you can hire him on staff, registering him ONLY according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. It is not clear what will prevent an employer from simply promising a salary in an envelope. But for this HH promises to punish and turn off the tap of the cheap Junes…
If the employee is not satisfied, you can refuse him by paying for the work by the day. They'll send the next one. This will continue until HH deems the employer uncooperative. If the employee is not satisfied with the employer, the scheme is the same – we settle, we get a new one.
Answers to questions from the curator
Why do you call them “low-cost” Junes? Why 36k? This is extremely little; you can get a job as a waiter for a large salary.
Junes are like dirt, they cannot get a job without experience, they are ready to work even for such a salary in order to gain commercial experience. Low-cost usually means cheap and bad *small pause to understand how I dug myself in*, but here… In short, cheap Junes, but GOOD, selected ones.
June is registered under the GPC in HH, that is, he does not receive experience in his work book and cannot confirm his experience for a future employer. What's the point then if the original problem isn't solved?
Yes, but these are the conditions. The expectation is that the employer will formalize it in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and begin to gain real experience.
How did the project originate, what is the motivation of companies and workers to fit into such conditions?
There are very few middles and seniors on the market; in the future, the cost of hiring and salaries will increase (the curator emphasized that this is his opinion and does not represent the position of the company). Small businesses cannot afford to hire and maintain a middle/senior. In order not to stall, all that remains is to raise your juniors, here reliable service for their selection.
Salvation for the Junes?
At first glance, the project may seem like a real salvation for the juniors: they are taking away “good” Junes and offer them to employers cheaper, taking all the risks of registration upon themselves. Cool isn't it? But let's look at the root.
Google Theorium has many open developer positions and internships. This company does not accept students from its own courses. This is a meaningful decision, literally: we don’t need students from our courses, we’d rather recruit from the market. I wonder why this decision was made?
Important for getting into this employment program need to pay. Not explicitly, but by purchasing and completing the course. After all, it’s obvious that among the juniors who didn’t buy the course on Google.Theorium, there can’t be any good ones. That is, a junior literally pays for the opportunity to get his first job.
After launch, the project will be used as a marketing technique: “Our students are guaranteed to get a job in large IT companies”. Well, it’s not exactly GUARANTEED, you need to complete the course, pass an interview… And a partner employer must be found with an open vacancy… In short, buy the course.
The curator assured several times that the testing of juniors would be as impartial and HONEST as possible. I would like to believe in the nobility and morality of business, but I worked in outstaff/outsourcing. Standard practice: embellish the programmer’s skills, increase his experience, sell to the customer. By the time he figures it out, he’ll already have the money. If it doesn’t work out, you can always apologize and suggest the next one.
Accredited engineers to conduct June testing – laughter. Hello, they are accredited by the business owner. This is like appointing the bank owner himself as a bank auditor. This will be a corrosive test. Petya, Vasya and Kolya are sitting and say: we know how to test juniors, you can trust us. Why? Who guarantees that they won't ask random questions from the list “Top 100 Java Questions”which do not test the ability to work in any way? Who gave them the right to divide the Juns into good and bad? Maybe Petya is a fat scuff, convinced that React is evil and should be written natively. How will this testing help then?
Conclusions
Here I see another attempt to make money on gullible newcomers to the field, frustrated by the lack of invitations to interviews. Promise them a ghostly hope of getting a job, offering to pay 100k+ for the course and work for a couple more months for 30k… You understand, without experience they won’t hire you anywhere… You can pay using the link, we’ll help you get a loan.
Eh, I wish I was some free way bypass the useless filter based on years of experience and get an interview…
The most disgusting thing is that the project comes from the pen of the largest job aggregator in the country, which in theory should be impartial. Extend the thought. Whose resume will be displayed first in the search: an ordinary candidate or a candidate who graduated from Google.Theorium? What next, should we offer the candidate to pay money so that the employer can at least see his resume? Yes, I’d rather look for vacancies in telegram chats.
I'm interested in your opinion – is this a fair deal for juniors?
If you reject, offer
It is not in my principles to shake the air without offering an alternative solution. Any transactions “pay now, and then there will be a high-paying job” – this is the warming up of the goyim. Let there be a high-paying job first, and I’ll pay from that. Options:
adding experience to your resume will help you bypass automatic filters and get an interview with a real person. On it, everything will depend only on your skills and knowledge, they will be assessed and a verdict will be made. This is a way to get things moving and get an objective assessment of your knowledge. Free, guides can be found on the Internet, I regularly give recruitment hacking tips in my channel.
shadow mode – middle/senior gets a job, registers as an individual entrepreneur. He takes June for a percentage of his salary and gives him access to all accounts. June studies under supervision and gets paid. Search in profile chats. They'll also pile up more money.
mentoring with payment after employment. Jun is trained for middle interviews and taught how to perform basic tasks. After employment, they accompany you and help you close your probationary period. The mentor receives a percentage of several salaries, and the junior moves on himself. Search on mentor aggregators. Paid, but subject to achieving results.
It was Anton Nazarov, don’t settle for 36k.
