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IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by heavyset_go »

BossingAround wrote: post #116
imglorp wrote: post #103

Speaking of dubious recruiting practices, can anyone explain why applicants frequently get ghosted? I mean some companies give zero reply after the workflow system acks receipt of an application. I feel this reflects poorly--in public--on a company's culture. The glossy "work here" page means nothing if there's no follow through in practice. A human may have spent days researching your company and preparing a cover l…

I personally would respond to an email. Or, rather, ask the recruiter to send an email to the person I rejected to even meet. The common answer to this question is, it would take way too long to answer these thousands of candidates that are applying to your position. Obviously, that's nonsense unless you're Google or Facebook. At huge companies, I suspect CVs just get lost in the system somewhere when they don't have…

> The common answer to this question is, it would take way too long to answer these thousands of candidates that are applying to your position

This can be automated, and several companies already do this.

Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by webmaven »

8organicbits wrote: post #161

I recently reviewed some resumes a recruiter (clearly) wrote for their candidates. The recruiter must have thought that listing every tech the applicant ever used was a good idea. Even long discontinued products. And they seemingly added typos, turned things into acronyms incorrectly, listed tech under incorrect categories, etc. They were so painful to read and I'd imagine would have embarrassed the candidates if the…

Your keyword matching hypothesis is likely correct, but doesn't that make the typos more damning?

Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by nogabebop23 »

ohgodplsno wrote: post #125
xwdv wrote: post #88

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Hmm, I wonder if I’ve been looking at these requirements all wrong then. If a year of work experience is about 2000 hours, maybe what they’re really saying is they want someone with 8000 hours of experience, which I guess is possible in 1.5 years.

No, it's just HR being HR. They don't know what they want.

It's worse than that, HR is hiring for someone else. I think there are valid cases where someone doesn't know what they want, but can't think of an example when it's acceptable to "not know what is wanted" when that's the sole purpose of your job.

Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by vernie »

imglorp wrote: post #103

Speaking of dubious recruiting practices, can anyone explain why applicants frequently get ghosted? I mean some companies give zero reply after the workflow system acks receipt of an application. I feel this reflects poorly--in public--on a company's culture. The glossy "work here" page means nothing if there's no follow through in practice. A human may have spent days researching your company and preparing a cover l…

I've been ghosted by a major company after several rounds of interviews. Get fucked, my dudes.

Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by gruez »

vsskanth wrote: post #151
northern-lights wrote: post #87

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I'm not sure how exactly it works but if I had to guess, the non-local talent would have fudged resumes showing they had the relevant experience. It's not like the relevant Labour departments would actually do the background check on hired candidates. All the companies/consultancies need to do is to show that they couldn't find a relevant candidate locally to satisfy the sponsorship requirements. Note that I'm not ju…

You have to provide evidence to USCIS (letters from past employers) that you worked on kubernetes for 12 years. They don't simply take your assertions at face value.

Do they take the letters at face value, or do they do some basic sanity checks to make sure the technology has been around as long as the experience you claimed to have?

Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by jarym »

vmception wrote: post #183
pcmoney wrote: post #176

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No, never this. If the hiring manager won’t be your manager or in the same tree, run. If they cant be bothered to read the job description they put out, run. If the technology is critical enough to need previous experience managers should know enough about it to not make this mistake. Hiring is the most important thing managers do. If they suck at that it really doesn’t matter if they are great at other things.

its shocking how many people here totally misunderstand the role and daily job of inhouse recruiters they churn out these job requirements daily the person you speak with on the phone wasn't involved with writing it, just correct them and get to the first technical person as soon as possible. this is done at companies of all sizes, whether it is IBM, Google, Uber, Pinterest, as well as expected in non-tech companies.…

I am fairly certain it wasn't the recruiter who put in the experience requirement. My dis-interest wasn't due to the recruiter but to do with whichever manager thought they needed needed more experience than the age of a product - either they are careless or don't care about a persons skillset.

Could I have been wrong? Of course. All I said was I was dis-interested, I had better opportunities with people who I understood and who understood me.

Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by Brian_K_White »

koheripbal wrote: post #172
mcherm wrote: post #55

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I get that she was actually a nice person who simply didn't know when .NET was invented. But I do not accept that she made a harmless and easily fixed error on the job requirements because of this. Frankly, I'm not that concerned that the job requirements demanded more years of .NET experience then it was possible to have. I am more concerned about all the other requirements that were listed on that job description w…

If you are expecting perfection then the world is going to be disappointing, in general.

Therefor, out of all the 360 directions one can choose to walk, we should not even bother trying to figure out in which direction perfection lies, let alone pick that direction to walk. Got it.

Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by vsskanth »

gruez wrote: post #196
vsskanth wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to provide evidence to USCIS (letters from past employers) that you worked on kubernetes for 12 years. They don't simply take your assertions at face value.

Do they take the letters at face value, or do they do some basic sanity checks to make sure the technology has been around as long as the experience you claimed to have?

Lying on immigration related documents is a crime so yeah they can take the letter at face value.

Whoever issues the letter assumes liability for what they attest to.

Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

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Post by waheoo »

scarface74 wrote: post #56
waheoo wrote: post #19

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Because id rather apply to a job at a company that pays enough respect to write a useful and information rich job description before asking me to spend time researching them, writing a cover letter, and tailoring my cv to highlight relevant experience for their needs.

Then don’t do that. I have never tailored my resume to a specific company. As far as cover letter, I haven’t written a cover letter in 25 years. On the hiring side, I’ve never actually paid attention to one and I thought they were kind of quaint.

Cover letters are sometimes requested, you look like a dick if you ignore the request, more so if you copy and paste without atleast a basic find and replace.

As for tailoring your cv to the role, I have 15 years of work experience, and I limit my cv to one page so it stands out, interviews are required, and my age doesnt show easily. In the half or so page I have available for work experience examples, I have to show relevance. Its pointless me talking about that time I wrote embeded software if Im applying for a react/node gig.

What does your cv look like if you can just send the same thing everywhere?

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