> There might be a case to take them really serious if the job posting really differentiate between what the candidate have to know and what they wish for. Tha

> There might be a case to take them really serious if the job posting really differentiate between what the candidate have to know and what they wish for. That is the problem. Very many of them say things like "flash in the pan technology X a must" or "latest silver bullet Y mandatory". They are basically advertising that their start-up only hire liars and people who actually believe management consultants. And then they are surprised that all the good people run away screaming. RethinkDB says "For that matter, you think SQL is a terribly designed language." Oh, dear. Refined by the hardest of the hard-core engineers for half a century, foundation of the world economy, and they only want people who have an ironclad, dogmatic belief that it is unconditionally terrible. Good luck recruiting actual information retrieval experts, guys.