"Remote" positions where you can work from home every other Friday. If a position is under a butts-in-seats management style, the word "remote" should not be found anywhere in the description. Some remote positions have geographical limitations, which can be understandable from a tax perspective, but I also don't like to see "remote" positions open only to people in a specific timezone.
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#12Rock star. My boss writes job descriptions like this and it annoys the shit out of me.
or ninja.. haha
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#13Pro:
- What tech you actually work with. Don't list equivalents. If the people knew the area they would already know if they have equivalent skills.
- Salary range and years of experience.
- What kind of actual real world user problems are you solving?
Cons: - Anything about culture (it's always bullshit), team player, or being emotionally mature - Useless fluff about "loving to work in a fast company", or how you were #1 2012's disposable ezine of the week's company to work for. - Not saying what the job is, but just saying what tech you will be using, as if that is enough. - You can't tell the description is any different between Intern/Junior/Senior/Architect level roles other than "years of experience"
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#14Having a requirement for knowing utility libraries. i.e. jQuery, underscore.js, MooTools, etc.
I understand requiring frameworks (i.e. Anguar, React), but jQuery? Come on.
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#15Sometimes in Dutch vacancies for freelance roles, I see the following remark with regards to hourly rate: "scherp aanbieden" (=> "offer sharply"?) I see this reasonably often in mailings of recruitment agencies. I hate this and I wouldn't be very tempted to apply.
What does it mean?
"Don't ask for too much money"
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#16Re: Ask HN: What do you expect or hate to see in a job offer decription?
#17Pro: link to company career page with overview of hiring/onboarding process.
Exaggerated, but not by much is:
Con: Blanket requirements of conflicting language paradigms. Like, expert in (enter no less than 6 JS frameworks and build tools), also python, ruby, C#, and some Erlang is a plus. Oh, you also know AWS, and every RDMS and noSQL technology, MS SQL Server experience a plus.
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#18If a position's salary varies from what is typically expected in the industry for an area (roughly different than the average salary found on Glassdoor, just as an example), then the salary or a warning should be listed in the description. Nothing pisses me off more than going through the motions only to get a lowball offer by a company hoping to rip me off. It is super demoralizing, even when I have other offers that are good.
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#19Pro: software stack policy about open source software Salary Range (allowed to be wide) Con: If you are trying to hide the company name, I dislike this but understand you are likely a recruiter working on commission. In order to attract people who are passionate, you need to include the work domain. If you don't post the work domain, then you are wasting my time.
> If you are trying to hide the company name, I dislike this but understand you are likely a recruiter working on commission.
Why is it bad?
Re: Ask HN: What do you expect or hate to see in a job offer decription?
#20Pro: software stack policy about open source software Salary Range (allowed to be wide) Con: If you are trying to hide the company name, I dislike this but understand you are likely a recruiter working on commission. In order to attract people who are passionate, you need to include the work domain. If you don't post the work domain, then you are wasting my time.
> If you are trying to hide the company name, I dislike this but understand you are likely a recruiter working on commission. Why is it bad?
Because you don't know what company you're applying for?