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It strikes me that there is some kind of market effect to embellishing the requirements. If a company is honest about requirements in an environment where every
by asveikau 5y ago
It strikes me that there is some kind of market effect to embellishing the requirements. If a company is honest about requirements in an environment where everybody else exaggerates, applicants who don't meet your more honest but lower requirements will think they're embellished, because everybody does that, and apply.
- josefx 5y agoMaybe they are using it as argument for wage negotiations. Kind of "you are clearly under qualified but we can still make use of your meager skills if you work twice as long for half the money". Don't quite remember if Facebook was part of that wage dumping agreement Google and Apple participated in.
- asveikau 5y agoI guess I've heard of another type of gaming of requirements: the H1B thing. The story here goes that they need to demonstrate they looked for someone with the same skills as somebody hired under an H1B. So they post job listings that are extremely specific to the person they hired, that no one can match. No idea if that's true. I heard it claimed by many. I guess it sounds kinda implausible for a large company, they would need to create possibly thousands of fake job listings.