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Given that these are all people looking for a job, it's not surprising that the "likes" appear to be slanted towards things that commonly show up in job posting
by abeger 11y ago
Given that these are all people looking for a job, it's not surprising that the "likes" appear to be slanted towards things that commonly show up in job postings.
- Animats 11y agoRight. This is from a resume site. How many people are going to put on their resume that they dislike something? Analyzing the main Stack Overflow site would be more useful. You go to Stack Overflow when something doesn't work.
- gaius 11y agoNo it's good, you don't want to be bait-and-switched. So many job ads now say "Haskell/OCaml/Erlang..." But they're actually Java shops. Better to put the warning up front.
- gruez 11y ago> So many job ads now say "Haskell/OCaml/Erlang..." But they're actually Java shops. Why would they do that?
- btilly 11y agoThey are hiring for the new system they are trying to develop, and supporting the legacy code they can't get rid of. They are always overoptimistic on how much time will be spent on new vs old.
- gaius 11y agoThat's a charitable idea but the real reason is bait-and-switch, a "creative" solution to being unable to recruit.