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A lot of very young people on HN. From my jaded older perspective this is VERY common when they want no external applicants. So we can't call it a corporate r
by VLM 6y ago
A lot of very young people on HN. From my jaded older perspective this is VERY common when they want no external applicants.
So we can't call it a corporate reorganization for Dilbertian process reasons and we're only transferring one person anyway, so we'll abuse the hire/fire/transfer process and put in hilarious requirements like a decade of experience with javascript react framework or this K8S ad.
Or the bosses nephew intern'd with us and we have been ordered to make sure the nephew and only the nephew get hired full time and his resume hilariously listed he's been "doing computer stuff for more than ten years; also does react framework" and we'll translate that into a minimum of a decade of react experience LOL.
This also shows up in stealth ageism. The last I18N guy doing the Spanish L10N project acted too childish for a professional office causing expensive chaos; OK then the next hire "needs" at least 30 years of experience in Spanish language I18N and L10N projects; really all we wanted was a bilingual translator who was not childish by nature of being at least 30 years old. The world's full of 30-something children but the odds are better than 20-something children. We already decided to hire one of the dev's friends who was 35 so all we need to do is make sure nobody else applies. So this project "needs" someone who's spoken Spanish for 30 years to translate stop and go to pare y siga, LOL. Well L10N always ends up being a lot more than merely translating words but whatever.
- swebs 6y ago>From my jaded older perspective this is VERY common when they want no external applicants. Or when they want very external applicants.
- VLM 6y agoTrue, if there's a H1B audit, its much easier a drone to prove to its auditor-drone that there were no local applicants for a job, than to explain the technical details of how there chronologically could not have been any applicants.
- mikeschmatz 6y agoOr, they are simply gaming H1B and/or employer-sponsored Green Card application process that requires submitting a proof that they couldn't find a US citizen.
- TrackerFF 6y agoHow to spot "This posting was tailored for/against one particular applicant" listings - Arbitrary number years of experience required. - Absolute requirements on very specific tools and environments. - Minimum Masters degree, even though the work isn't anywhere near that. - Strong preference for applicants that are well known with the industry. - Very short deadline. If it's also a gov. job, then that almost definitely seals the deal that it's for someone internal. Sadly, with a lot of gov. jobs, there's so much bureaucracy and laws/regulations to navigate around, that it's often impossible to "just" promote someone internal to a new position / title. The job needs to get posted around, and often times there are external boards that will have the final say. This is obviously to fight and a CYA process against nepotism etc., but also makes it a real pain to get people.