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Thank you for your detailed answer! I'd say if you're going to put "passion" and "grit" in your job description, you should also specify 40 hour workweeks. Mayb
by andy_adams 8y ago
Thank you for your detailed answer! I'd say if you're going to put "passion" and "grit" in your job description, you should also specify 40 hour workweeks. Maybe I'm jaded, but those are just codewords to me for "wants to work overtime".
- ergothus 8y agoI'm certainly keeping that in mind...but why do you believe those are codewords for that? Is that assumption, rumor, or based on personal experience?
- andy_adams 8y agoSome personal experience, some anecdotes, some assumption. Nearly every time I've read a job posting using similar language, when I've been able to actually talk to the developers there I find out that yep: it's long hours expected. There's specific words, like "self-motivated" or "willing to learn deeply" to convey the ideas you're talking about, without meaning working extra hours. But when a job posting uses the vaguer "passion", "grit", or similar hustle-y words, it's just a red flag to me that they're being non-specific - they probably have a reason.