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Ask HN: What do you expect or hate to see in a job offer decription?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you expect or hate to see in a job offer decription?

#31
Pro: Linux, scientific computing, not-for-profit organization, high-tech (if it really is), contributing to open-source

Cons: OSX, Windows, advertisement industry, bank, legacy systems, COBOL, calling the company "high-tech" when they mostly do what everybody else does, e.g. writing CRUD systems or do elementary data plumbing.

Re: Ask HN: What do you expect or hate to see in a job offer decription?

#32

Having 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.

What's wrong with listing jQuery? If it heavily used somewhere it's natural to want someone who's used it before.

It's something you can learn on the job, but requirements are there because employers ideally want someone who can hit the ground running.

Re: Ask HN: What do you expect or hate to see in a job offer decription?

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post #25

Pros: What the actual job is, the industry sector and the pay Cons: Guru, Ninja, Rock Star and Passion. I am 55 with a shit pension and your 'Uber for salads' is not something I am passionate about. Never will be. Complete put off: Other than the cons is reading the ad and not knowing what the job or company is about. If you can't spell it out your are either incompetent or deceitful.

Passion reads to me like "unpaid overtime"

Re: Ask HN: What do you expect or hate to see in a job offer decription?

#38
post #13

Pro: - 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 we…

Culture is always bullshit until you get rejected with a line such as "unfortunately we don't see a good culture fit here"
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