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Another one I've seen quite often is management wants "it", and then they hire someone who can do "it", but the company/product isn't nearly ready for "it". Thi
by padobson 4y ago
Another one I've seen quite often is management wants "it", and then they hire someone who can do "it", but the company/product isn't nearly ready for "it". Think hiring a DBA before you have 100 total rows in your database, or hiring someone to write an AI recommendation engine before you have any users at all.
The "it" person sits around feeling uncomfortable and is inevitably asked to work on something they don't really know how to do and doesn't want to learn. They usually leave before the company ever gets to the point where the relationship is useful.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoThe worst job I ever got hired at (about 15 years ago) wanted asp.net, C#, html, css, javascript, xslt, and SQL. It turned out the whole of the job was optimizing SQL queries because you were not allowed to touch any other part of the application because that was all handled by jealous developers in Norway. They wanted people who could do it, but they didn't actually know what it was.
- rozenmd 4y agoreminds me of data science 5 years ago - everyone wanted to say they hired data scientists, no one wanted to admit they didn't know where their company data was being stored
- lysecret 4y agovery optimistic take, that its only 5 years ago :D Also they know where it is, in a 1000 different excels haha
- austhrow743 4y agoWorst case I've seen of that was a pilot hired to fly a private jet mostly being used as an unrelated to aircraft general maintenance man because there were no clients for the recently purchased private jet. Was incredibly uncomfortable needing something done and knowing I'd be told to get him to do it. His unhappiness with his position was palpable.