Is this a typo or total misunderstanding? In this article:, the author said "FAANG is Facebook, Apple, Amazon, "LinkedIn" (Wrong! it should be Netflix) and Google. ..." Frankly, if someone wants to give a "hiring (software developer) guide" but does not even know what FAANG is, I seriously doubt how good this guide could possibly be.
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#22> About four times a year, new studies come out with an ever-lower percentage of how many job seekers won’t apply to a job unless they meet precisely 100% of your listing’s overly-strict requirements. Even worse, all of the studies have a clearly highlighted gender difference between men and women: fewer women than men apply for a job with requirements they don’t meet. Thank you! It's amazing how many hiring managers…
Did they mean to write that the percentage of job seekers applying is dropping? because a lower percentage of people not applying means that more people are applying.
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#23The one absolutely, infuriating thing about jobs that will cause me to throw keyboards through windows: A 'requirement' or a 'minimum' must be exactly that. If they are negotiable, they aren't a requirement or minimum. GET THIS RIGHT, GODDAMNIT. THOSE WORDS HAVE DEFINITIONS FOR A REASON. If you can't come up with any, then chances are they aren't actually required! And if you don't actually have any, you don't have t…
It's not that hiring managers are using the words incorrectly. It's that their predictions about their own future behaviour are wrong. They think they'll have a lot of applicants, and hope that they'll reduce their own workload by helping the lower-quality candidates self-select out of the process, or maybe getting HR to do it for them.
In practice it doesn't work that way. There aren't that many applicants, and none of them are exactly what the requirements specify. So they have to do the work of really understanding a candidate's skill set and experience, and then sketch out the onboarding and training that would be required to get them up to speed. Which is fine, because there aren't clear-cut predictors for success at these sorts of jobs anyway.
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#24The one absolutely, infuriating thing about jobs that will cause me to throw keyboards through windows: A 'requirement' or a 'minimum' must be exactly that. If they are negotiable, they aren't a requirement or minimum. GET THIS RIGHT, GODDAMNIT. THOSE WORDS HAVE DEFINITIONS FOR A REASON. If you can't come up with any, then chances are they aren't actually required! And if you don't actually have any, you don't have t…
I thought exhaustive requirements were for disqualifying Americans so H-1B positions could be filled.
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#25As usual "pay well!" isn't in the list.
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#26> About four times a year, new studies come out with an ever-lower percentage of how many job seekers won’t apply to a job unless they meet precisely 100% of your listing’s overly-strict requirements. Even worse, all of the studies have a clearly highlighted gender difference between men and women: fewer women than men apply for a job with requirements they don’t meet. Thank you! It's amazing how many hiring managers…
Did they mean to write that the percentage of job seekers applying is dropping? because a lower percentage of people not applying means that more people are applying.
No link to the studies, even in the article. I couldn't find any after a visit to DDG. Would be interesting to know the underlying metrics here
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#27Is this a typo or total misunderstanding? In this article:, the author said "FAANG is Facebook, Apple, Amazon, "LinkedIn" (Wrong! it should be Netflix) and Google. ..." Frankly, if someone wants to give a "hiring (software developer) guide" but does not even know what FAANG is, I seriously doubt how good this guide could possibly be.
This is a trivial mistake. Many people outside of HN haven't even heard "FAANG", much less what it means. A lot of very smart people commit such trivial mistakes all the time.
I haven't gone through this guide, but judging through other comments, it isn't that bad (some even praised it).
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#28> FAANG is Facebook, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Google. LinkedIn? Was that a tongue in cheek joke that I've missed,
"FLAAG"
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#29As usual "pay well!" isn't in the list.
It kinda is. At the very beginning he mentions that his startup couldn't pay as well as FAANG.
Most people won't take a pay cut when switching jobs, unless they are moving to a place with a lower cost of living. But a lot of people are kinda elastic on pay raises. Here's a list of stuff that can stimulate different people more than a larger pay raise when switching jobs:
- becoming a manager - no longer being a manager - a tech stack they want to work with - a company mission that aligns with their morals - stable office hours - office layout - proximity to home
Paying well helps, but unless you're an ICE contractor located in a hangar in Fort Nowhere hiring people to rewrite a legacy COBOL application in RPG in three months you probably have other ways to attract more and more diverse applicants rather than just stacks of money.
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#30> FAANG is Facebook, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Google. LinkedIn? Was that a tongue in cheek joke that I've missed,
"FLAAG"
In my mind, Facebook is not really a tech company, LinkedIn and Neflix are not really in the same class (they're added to make for a cool acronym), and Google is actually much more than the search engine. So the only acronym that works is AAA.