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Can't access because the site is down, but I have a lot of feelings about this topic. Specifically, please never, ever, use one of these words to describe the d
by krstck 13y ago
Can't access because the site is down, but I have a lot of feelings about this topic. Specifically, please never, ever, use one of these words to describe the developer you are hunting:
ninja, cowboy, rockstar, superstar, virtuoso, obsessed, "lives and breathes code", knowledgeable about some arbitrary activity or hobby to show how quirky and social the team is...
It gets tiring, as a professional, to read these job postings that sound like they're an ad for a teenage boy's summer camp. Usually the non-programmer postings will read like, you know, jobs for adults. Also, when you're asking for a "virtuoso" for your 60k junior dev spot, I don't know whether that means you don't know what that word means or you're just delusional. Either way, it sounds like everyone definitely has a puffed up ego.
- k3oni 13y agoLooking around these days i see a lot of ninja and rockstar requests, can't agree more with your post. Also even for non-programmer jobs like sys engineers/admins i see a lot of hacker and superstar postings.