Surely that can't be for real. I saw it a few days ago and immediately thought it was a parody... but...
How not to advertise for a job in London
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#22The ideal candidate displays and implements "pushing forward motions". They... wave their hands in the air?
This is a wind up, surely!
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#23>> 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.
But you have control over when you are responding to said distraction, so it won't necessarily get you out of the zone.
I suppose, to an extent, but I think all the notifications and events are more successful than not in pulling people's attention away from what they are doing. At least that is my observation.
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#24@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.
Thanks, so his last tweet before nuking his account was:
"Apologies for my discriminative job advert. It was totally wrong. Going forwards, we’re adopting a more ethical hiring procedure."
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#25Out of curiosity, are these discrimination laws hard and fast in in the UK? At least, in the U.S., most of these laws explicitly only affect a company above a certain number of employees.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thanks, so his last tweet before nuking his account was: "Apologies for my discriminative job advert. It was totally wrong. Going forwards, we’re adopting a more ethical hiring procedure."
He seem to have nuked his linkedin account and similar such accounts as well.
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#27This is either really good satire or really depressing.
It's like every HR buzzword has been shoved into a single requirements doc, and then some bizarre ones added for good measure (it's a bonus if you like to wear headphones apparently?)
I'm going to print this out and stick it on my wall - no matter how bad my professional life gets, I will be reminded at least I don't work here.
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#28Under "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.
It typically applies only to males, and historically has only referred to males. If I were a female thinking about applying for this job, I would certainly be taken aback by it.
While you might refer to a mixed-gendered group as "dudes" it seems odd to refer to a single female as a "dude"
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#29Under "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!
> by someone whose not a HR professional
No need to require HR skills when basic English proficiency is lacking. What does "work in a team of all current developers" even means? Don't get me started on "Conscientious and committed to a certain task where they decided to commit themselves", that's positively Shakespearian. Was this written by a real person using Google Translate, or by a bot?
Oh, and what the hell is a "MagicPitch"?
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#30>> 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.
But you have control over when you are responding to said distraction, so it won't necessarily get you out of the zone.
Depends on how you are wired. I can't not react to external stimuli, and being in an environment with a lot of stimuli I can't control raises my stress level pretty quickly.