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Experience tells me that hiring posts that demand this level of excellence are often covering for weaknesses in their process. "We only hire the best!" The be
by johngalt 10y ago
Experience tells me that hiring posts that demand this level of excellence are often covering for weaknesses in their process.
"We only hire the best!"
The best at what?
"The best at everything of course. We want a full stack wish fulfillment genie."
Either you have no idea what skills are missing from your current team, or they are all missing, and you want to fill that gap with one person rather than a team.
Job postings that ask for excessive skills across multiple disciplines say to me: This hiring manager doesn't want to do their job. The management job of creating a team, process, workflow. Why bother building a team of shared responsibilities? Why take ownership of the team's process? That would be hard. Instead I'll just hire one uber-nerd and make them do it all.
- Yhippa 10y agoHere are some of my favorite lazy hiring manager practices: * asking for "everything but the kitchen sink" skills * confusing Java with Javascript * even mentioning J2EE in the requisiton (who on Earth wants to do that in this day and age?) * copy-pasting of the requisition leading to truncation of the posting
- tomjen3 10y agoj2ee makes sense if you need somebody to mentain your existing code.
- gtk40 10y agoI was talking to the product manager for a product we were having issues with from a major player in the corporate software place who, when we told the manager we were experiencing Java exceptions and instability, kept calling them "JavaScript exceptions." I couldn't believe a PM couldn't even keep the language that the product was written in straight.
- nazka 10y agoOr like the 'Spark +5 years of experience minimum' type of offers we had 2 years ago. Now it's Tensorflow.