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I wish I got asked questions like this. Usually it's just 'How many years of experience do you have in XYZ?' and it's almost never enough. Doesn't matter if yo
by Gunax 7y ago
I wish I got asked questions like this.
Usually it's just 'How many years of experience do you have in XYZ?' and it's almost never enough. Doesn't matter if your experience is in something similar ('Oh you used Spring boot! We are looking for Spring MVC!') and of course they just care about decades of 'experience'--doesn't matter if you actually know it well.
Then the job ends up not having any relation to what was posted anyway, so it was all moot.
Yes, I am salty. I am sick of taking 'exciting' opportunities just to end up babysitting software that has no relation to the posted skills/requirements.
- jagged-chisel 7y agoMy favorite is "Yes! We'd love to have someone with broad experience who can dive in a learn new stuff!" followed by "you've read the $TECHNOLOGY_TOOL docs, but haven't deployed anything with it? Sorry, we're taking a pass..."