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I don't get why this is seen as a good job posting. There's very little info about the job, the compensation and only minimal info about the skills needed. Wh
by wheels 17y ago
I don't get why this is seen as a good job posting. There's very little info about the job, the compensation and only minimal info about the skills needed.
When I was, say, 20, the blank slate might have been appealing. Now I'm actually good at stuff. I have deep specific skills and sorts of problems I like working on. Working in a job where I'm not using a significant subset of those skills is a poor use of my abilities. (Though, notably, doing the founder thing that happens anyway. ;-) )
To me this post basically reads as looking for, "young, excited and inexperienced", which may be their goal, but would be disastrous if used as a general template.
- ErrantX 17y agoAgreed. Clearly jobs which list a million required "skills" are useless. But ones that list no problems to fix are also bad IMO (this one lists "you are..." instead - which is worse). At least give an idea of the problem domain being faced (scaling, for example) All that will happen is you will get a load of people apply who aren't really suitable for what they had in mind...
- _delirium 17y agoThey also say they're interested in a "generalist", but then the list of skills makes it pretty clear they're interested in someone mainly skilled in web-related stuff (backend, frontend, design). There's nothing wrong with that, but it's pretty clearly a kind of specialty, and would be an inappropriate job for a candidate whose strengths weren't web-related, no matter how many other skills they had.
- j_baker 17y agoThis sounds a lot like a perceiving vs judging issue. Judgers tend to like knowing what they're getting into ahead of time. Perceivers (such as myself) tend to get bored when their future is mapped out. This posting definitely leans more toward the perceiving end of the spectrum. That isn't necessarily bad or good, but it definitely makes this posting different.