Roast the Post Podcast

Great culture doesn't start at onboarding. It starts at the job ad — because the mismatch between what candidates expect and what they find is where turnover is born. #Hiring #WorkplaceCulture Our whole mission, explained in the full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

The Concorde couldn't break the sound barrier over the continental US. Windows, eardrums — sonic booms do real damage. So how do you build a civilian hypersonic plane that doesn't? #Aerospace #Engineering The answer might surprise you. Full episode buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

If the person in charge of getting things done is also in charge of quality, you've lost the separation of church and state. Standards like AS9100 exist because that ends badly. #QualityControl #Aerospace How to spot it in a job ad — full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

"Hero engineer" job ads are a five-year capital mistake in disguise. Without boundaries and responsibilities, even a great hire fails — and the org pays for years. #JobAds #Engineering Why guardrails matter — full episode out now. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Even the US defense establishment can't agree on "war" vs "national defense." Wading into that debate in a job ad? You just politicized your talent pool before anyone applied. #JobAds #Recruiting Why it backfires — full episode out now. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

A job ad is a sales pitch, and this one's pitching nothing. Low LA salary, huge scope, and the only perk is "maybe" unlimited PTO — depending on your role. Who knows? #JobAds #Hiring We break down the whole ad in the full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Proof that workplace conversations can still be human: a border collie named Barnabas stealing the show mid-podcast. This is what unscripted sounds like. #Podcast #WorkplaceCulture The full episode — dog and all — is out now. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Job ads love "fast-paced." Candidates should hear "under-resourced and hoping you don't notice." The difference matters more than the salary. #JobAds #Hiring We translate the corporate speak in the full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Why would a hypersonic startup be venture-backed? Because going from passenger-jet speeds to Mach 5 takes an "insane" amount of engineering — and someone's gotta pay for it. #VentureCapital #Aerospace We get into it in the full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Either they don't know what they need, or they're casting a wide net to see what bites. For a defense engineering role, both options should worry you. #JobAds #Engineering Why ambiguity is a red flag — full episode : buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Ten months of reading job ads line by line taught us one thing: companies that sweat the ad stop paying for it later in churn, confusion, and bad fits. #HR #Hiring Why we do this every week, full episode out now. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Sonic booms blow out windows and eardrums, which is why supersonic flight over land was banned. Companies are solving it... the one in this job ad isn't even mentioning it. #Aerospace #JobAds What they left out, full episode out now. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Quality isn't a vibe, it's a requirement — your stick of dynamite shouldn't explode in transit. Defense manufacturing learned this and wrote AS9100 for a reason. #Manufacturing #Safety We break it down in the full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

No guardrails means one thing: you're drastically cutting the odds the new hire succeeds. Bad role design doesn't just burn the engineer... it burns the capital. #Startups #Hiring If VCs understood this, they'd care. Full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

One company just named "Department of War" contracts in its job ad — wading into a live political debate mid-hiring pitch. Whatever your politics, that shrinks your talent pool. #Recruiting #Hiring Here's why that's a hiring mistake. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Extractive job ads tell you exactly what the company thinks of employees: what can we get out of you? If the ad can't say what's in it for you, the answer is not much. #JobAds #JobSearch Learn to spot the pattern in the full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Ten months of roasting job ads and the moment everyone will remember is a border collie falling asleep in Dan's lap. We don't script this. #Podcast #DogsOfWork Catch the full episode on your favourite app. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

In small engineering companies, authority relationships get messy fast. The ad promises autonomy but not escalation? That ambiguity becomes your problem on day one. #Engineering #JobSearch Why boundaries matter — full episode out now. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Hypersonic = five times the speed of sound. That single number explains the salary, the scope, and the chaos of the job ad we're roasting this week. #Hypersonics #Aerospace Speed and dysfunction — full episode out now. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

The scariest part of a vague job ad? It's accurate. Disorganized hiring predicts disorganized work — especially when the product is hypersonic aircraft. #RedFlags #Hiring We unpack it in the full episode. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

We're on a mission to unf*ck the hiring process, one job ad at a time. Ten months of line-by-line roasts later, the patterns are obvious — and the fixes are too. #JobAds #Hiring The whole manifesto — full episode out now. buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Breaking the sound barrier is easy if you don't care about the people underneath. Designing a hypersonic plane quiet enough for civilian skies? That's the hard, interesting problem. #Engineering #Aerospace We get into it in the full episode : buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

A job ad that makes one person both builder and inspector isn't efficient — it's a compliance risk. The big defense primes separate those roles for a reason. #QualityControl #JobAds See the full breakdown in the episode : buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Hiring a hero on the cheap doesn't work in any industry. Doing it for hypersonic aircraft R&D in LA is a special kind of optimism. #JobAds #Startups We do the math in the full episode : buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

Job ads should build talent pools, not pick political sides. Signal, intentional or not, filters out candidates you'll never win back. #Hiring #Recruiting We get into the whole ad in the full episode : buff.ly/nSd6Ov8

No salary. No benefits. No reporting line. No job description worth the name. Not extractive, just one-directional: everything you owe, nothing you get. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #SalaryTransparency #JobSeekers

Job ads signal what gets rewarded. This one rewards doing whatever it takes, and you can guess what that does to trust between teammates. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #WorkplaceCulture #HR

If a job ad demands ruthlessness, that's not a requirement, it's a culture preview. Ruthless on paper becomes ruthless in the break room. We bet no HR team saw this one before it went live. Watch the full roast now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #RedFlags #WorkplaceCulture

Hiring managers: every requirement no human can meet is a filter that removes reality, not risk. This week's ad is a masterclass in that mistake. Watch the full roast. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #HiringManagers #Recruiting

The ad says be ruthless. The culture will agree. Behaviour you demand on paper spills over into behaviour you live with daily. We break it down in the full episode. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #RedFlags #JobSeekers

Job ads are pure fiction when the writer doesn't know what they're doing. But even fiction leaks truth: this ad reveals more than the company intended. Watch the full roast. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #HiringManagers #Recruiting

When the mission is fuzzy but the ruthlessness is clear, people stab each other in the back to look like the hero. This ad builds that culture on purpose or by accident. Watch the full roast. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #WorkplaceCulture #JobSeekers

Who can actually do this job? That's the question the ad never answers, because the answer is nobody, at least not well. We unpack the tunnel vision in the full episode. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #JobSeekers #Recruiting

Nerves of steel. Unwavering commitment. Failure is not an option. These are plot devices, not job requirements. We decode the thriller trailer energy in the full episode. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #JobSeekers #WorkplaceCulture

Interviews are tests. Tests of what, exactly? If your process doesn't measure the work, you're not rigorous, you're just weird. We dig into broken hiring tests. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #Hiring #JobInterviews #HR

Your hiring process should test whether someone can do the job. If it tests anything else, you're filtering for the wrong people and calling it a high bar. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #Hiring #HiringManagers #HR

The spoils in this ad probably aren't even money, since salary is nowhere in it. They're paying in lives saved and village plunder vibes. Watch the full roast. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #SalaryTransparency #JobSeekers

Sell me on the company. That's the bar, and this ad can't clear it. It lists demands and skips the part where you learn what you'd actually do all day. Watch the full roast. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #JobSeekers #HiringManagers

You don't reap spoils in an office job. You reap spoils after storming a village, which this ad somehow forgot. Warfare language in a job description is a red flag in camo. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #RedFlags #WorkplaceCulture

The dream candidate for this job ad exists only in the writer's head. Many people can do this job. Nobody can do this job well. That gap matters more than any buzzword. Watch the full roast. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #Hiring #JobSeekers

Want to know a company's real culture? Look at what its job ad admits. This one confesses ruthlessness, zero oversight, and a writer who skipped HR entirely. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #HR #WorkplaceCulture

T-shaped used to mean deep in one thing and broad in a few. In this ad it means exceptional at everything simultaneously. That's not a profile, it's a wish. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #Hiring #HR

A job ad is a relationship proposal, so why do so many list only what you owe? No reporting line, no day-to-day, no what's in it for you. We push back in the full episode. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #JobSeekers #HR

FAANG brainteasers had a validity problem: they measured puzzle patience, not job skill. The hiring equivalent of a Magic 8 Ball. Watch the full roast. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #Hiring #JobSeekers #Recruiting

Google once asked how many marbles fit in a school bus for a product manager role. That's not a test of the job, it's a test of nonsense tolerance. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #Hiring #JobInterviews #Recruiting

This job ad says the quiet part loud: we need a guy who gets it, no HR review required. Culture doesn't leak through job ads, it gushes. Watch the full roast now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #WorkplaceCulture #Hiring

Do whatever it takes to meet our objectives. Fine words, until you learn the objective might just be filling the company's coffers. We decode the fudge in the full episode. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #RedFlags #Hiring

We rate every job ad we roast. This one we almost couldn't, because there's almost nothing there to rate. Vague, confusing, and manipulative. Watch the full roast. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #RedFlags #Hiring

Aggressive language in job ads attracts aggressive cultures. If reaping spoils gets your jollies up, this job wants you, and that's exactly the concern. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #WorkplaceCulture #JobSeekers

A job ad is a contract between you and the employer. This one lists obligations only, then forgets to say what the job even is. We couldn't give it credit. Full episode out now. buff.ly/jdhe4vF #JobAds #JobSeekers #WorkplaceCulture