How not to advertise for a job in London
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How not to advertise for a job in London
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Re: How not to advertise for a job in London
#2Under "common behaviours of our ideal candidate" in the HR doc posted:
> 8. Just a nice dude
It seems obvious to me that this is outright illegal gender discrimination, am I wrong?
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#3...aaaannd there goes the "faith in humanity"-budget for the day. There can't be many people applying to such job offers, right?
(Also, video-pitch for a job as a backend developer? What's the logic behind that except "let's see through how many hoops they'll jump")
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#4twitter account is gone
Re: How not to advertise for a job in London
#5@xiangyu_wu deleted his twitter account and Topsy doesn't seem to have the incriminating tweets, any other archive?
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#6Under "common behaviours of our ideal candidate" in the HR doc posted: > 8. Just a nice dude It seems obvious to me that this is outright illegal gender discrimination, am I wrong?
"Dude" doesn't necessarily imply male, but it is strongly slanted that way. I'm not sure if it would hold up as discrimination.
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#7Under "common behaviours of our ideal candidate" in the HR doc posted: > 8. Just a nice dude It seems obvious to me that this is outright illegal gender discrimination, am I wrong?
You're not wrong at all. Furthermore:
> 2. Under 30 years old
Is obviously age discrimination as well. Unlike some people, I'm under no illusions that tech is non-discriminatory, but it's still surprising and disappointing to see it stated so plainly on a job description.
These people are idiots for leaving this document online now that they've been caught. I don't know the specifics of UK labour laws, but in the US its mere existence would be grounds for a lawsuit.
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#8>> Enters into a state of Flow, where when the candidate is coding a long time they are wired in and cannot easily get
distracted
Haha, TBH almost every programmer I know under 30 years old is distracted every 90 seconds by a) a tweet, b) a text, c) a notification, or d) an email. Wait, actually that's all of us, under 30 or not.
Re: How not to advertise for a job in London
#9Under "common behaviours of our ideal candidate" in the HR doc posted: > 8. Just a nice dude It seems obvious to me that this is outright illegal gender discrimination, am I wrong?
Yeah you can't ask that.
When you read the rest of the document it's clear the 'job definition' has been done by someone whose not a HR professional. It's probably a tech or developer whose inexperienced. The only thing I'll say in defense of it is that this isn't as unusual as you might expect - even if they don't write it a lot of people probably use heuristics like this, unfortunately!
Re: How not to advertise for a job in London
#10@xiangyu_wu deleted his twitter account and Topsy doesn't seem to have the incriminating tweets, any other archive?
I managed to see his tweets, where he apologised for his job-posting, by googling for his twittername and looking it up at google cache.