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My company makes recruiting software so I talk and deal with many recruiters. I have to say I severely cringe every time a recruiter says "Rockstar" or "Ninja"
by agentgt 11y ago
My company makes recruiting software so I talk and deal with many recruiters.
I have to say I severely cringe every time a recruiter says "Rockstar" or "Ninja" (in a job description or ask if I am one). Just imagine using those terms for a talented medical doctor or lawyer. "Microservice" is quickly becoming another new recruiting term that I am beginning to despise. At least "agile" is mostly dead... mostly...
Speaking of which what ever happened to "Scotty", "Rocket scientist" or "Macgyver" (those were the sexy euphemisms back when I started software dev). They were far more apropo.
- sciurus 11y agoMaybe we've just replaced "agile" with "devops".
- SideburnsOfDoom 11y agoI have heard a candidate for a software engineer position talk with straight face about his current workplace's "devops team" and handing off software to them. So maybe it's getting that way.
- jedberg 11y agoIf this were reddit this is where I would post a "The force doesn't work that way!" memes. I can't stand it when people ask about a "devops team". That's not devops then! That just means your sysadmins can code too. Now, if they are asking about a devops software team, that's a different story.
- SideburnsOfDoom 11y agoYep. What it means is like "agile" did, it's reaching the "old wine in a new bottle" stage, with less actual hard work of changing the way people work for the better, and more easy slapping a new trendy label on existing practices.
- jghn 11y agoIf I see a job ad, hear from a recruiter or whatever which uses either rockstar or ninja, or anything along those lines I immediately stop listening/reading.