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She says Textio taught her company to avoid terms such as "coding ninja" - a common phrase in Silicon Valley job ads. This would also put me off applying for t
by 1ba9115454 8y ago
She says Textio taught her company to avoid terms such as "coding ninja" - a common phrase in Silicon Valley job ads.
This would also put me off applying for the role. It makes the company sound immature and anyone who calls themselves a coding ninja may not have great self assesment skills.
- gaius 8y agoIndeed. I haven’t actually seen very many ninja or rockstar type titles in the last few years so hopefully that particular fad has died off already. And I don’t know anyone, male or female, who doesn’t cringe at those kinds of titles either. Then again I am not in the webdev/fullstack market so maybe it does still happen.
- paidleaf 8y agoSaying it was "common" is simply a lie. I would love to see her stats because I've been working in tech for a while now and I've never seen the term "coding ninja" in a job ad. I've seen ludicrous demands like more experience in a tech than the tech has been out. Like "must haves : " - 5 years experience in visual studio 2017 and sql server 2017. Non negotiable.
- Latty 8y agoI don't think it's a lie, I think it's just an old example. Just as the media loves using "epic fail" in a "How do you do, fellow kids?" kind of way, it's easy to assume something is still happening because it was big the last time you checked.