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Notice there are only three requirements, none of them language-specific. Even these can be thought of as only two different demands, since learning languages

Notice there are only three requirements, none of them language-specific. Even these can be thought of as only two different demands, since learning languages quickly and being a really smart engineer are nearly the same thing. This means that, probabilistically, there's a reasonable chance they'll get a lot of applicants that actually meet all the requirements and from there they can hire someone they like based on the bonus points section, people skills, etc. In contrast, the average job listing makes it very unlikely that anybody can comply with all the requirements, so the hiring manager ends up hiring someone who does not meet requirements. This is the honest approach to the problem of hiring good hackers.

WildUtah 17y ago
/learning languages quickly and being a really smart engineer are nearly the same thing/ Only if we're thinking of formally specified computing languages. Since it's a world travel business that demands just a few lines later that you travel around the world as part of your job responsibilities, I read the requirement as refering* to natural languages. I think an ad like this could work for a small, high profile startup like this but it should really take a line to say, "we mostly write all this in [RoR|Arc|Django|Objective-C] and need to keep [Oracle|Psotgres|MySQL] back ends tuned." That way we'd have some clue what to expect. * Look, I'm qualified to write web standards.