I had a recruiter call me to ask if I'm interested in a job for "c hashtag"
Best I've heard is "coctothorpe" but I think it was tongue in cheek.
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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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This happened to me - got a call from a recruiter who said client needed 10 years. I replied 'I was a teenager back then' to which she said 'so you don't have enough experience?'. I responded 'Well I helped create the thing, it hasn't been around 10 years'. Silence followed, I was thoroughly dis-interested after that.
> I was thoroughly dis-interested after that. Why? The experience and intelligence of the recruiter has almost zero correlation to the experience and intelligence of the people you'd be working with. Recruiting people / HR are just an administrative barrier to get through. Once you speak to the actual team you'd be working with, you can start being more discerning of the quality of the people.
The recruiter likely didn’t write the job description. The team that needs the person did.
If they are so stupid as to do this, I wouldn’t want to work for them either.
Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration
#223I 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?
Yes, but since so far they had success, how would they really know? And computerized search is getting more smart, not less, so .. even less incentive to be precise.
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#225Speaking 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…
After I had worked as a software engineer for about 5-6 years, struggling with impostor syndrome during portions of that time, I decided to apply for a job at Google mostly just to see what would happen. Guess what happened? They ghosted me. Nothing. No 'thanks, but no'. Just nothing. I remember that it I felt embarassed and was frankly a bit ashamed that I hadn't received a reply. It took a while before I realized t…
I think they dodged a bullet since you took it so personal.
Re: IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration
#226Im sure some fake resume from Indian owned sweatshops will have an H-1B visa holder with the non-existent 12 years kubernetes experience. Isn't it how they operate for any position anyways ? Good grief IBM...
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Small companies can get thousands of applications, no need to be Google. There was a time when you could see how many people applied to a listing on monster and linkedin, the numbers were pure madness. As a manager, you probably only see applicants that were filtered by HR and applied for your team or department specifically, while HR has to view all the applicants across the entire company, that's a whole order of m…
Which is fine, but here's what I think should happen: You apply to Position P. Recruiter hires someone for P and closes the req. At that point, the bot should send everyone in the wait bucket for P a mail saying "thanks P has been filled, feel free to apply to similar roles R and S". It would take zero extra recruiter time.
Recruiters and employers who disappear are burning bridges. Next time they have a position to fill, are you going to apply or to dismiss them as a waste of effort?
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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?
I can promise you immigration services are not verifying if someone really knows Kubernetes.
Well, maybe this time there'll be more interest. The immigration services officer who fines IBM millions for this kind of illegal immigration scandal should expect a good career.
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#229Wanted: someone willing to lie on their CV.
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Really? I haven’t heard that before. Citation, please.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclu... I'd like to add that I find it scary that this basic info can't be found, neither by a cursory web search, nor on wikipedia. Makes you worry about a future generation raised in naive march-of-progress narratives wondering about how things came to be during the "dark ages" (= today) of the web
All of the patterns and default code referenced there were things I wrote or helped write or reviewed, and while a certain “java patterns” mindset was common in early devs, I can assure you we didn’t transcribe it from Java, we simply used patterns we were familiar with from previous languages. None of the open-source Kube project was “transcribed from Java” to the level being described here.
Kris isn’t wrong, but the details are far more nuanced than that. This talk is a non-primary source :)