IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

Post by nickysielicki » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 7:33 PM UTC

koheripbal wrote: post #171

jarym wrote: post #136

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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.

Post by tannhaeuser » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 8:06 PM UTC

smarterclayton wrote: post #230

tannhaeuser wrote: post #68

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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 th…

Post by TwoNineFive » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

jarym wrote: post #136

juped wrote: post #22

> I saw a job post the other day. > It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. > I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing. https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830

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.

Post by balfirevic » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:14 PM UTC

codingdave wrote: post #10

Recruiters putting silly time requirements on skills is nothing new. My favorite moment of this type was at a meetup for .NET, where a recruiter came in and asked for too many years of experience, and the entire room burst out laughing. She just smiled, accepted the grief we all were giving her, and changed the job description to be accurate. I forget the exact wording she used, but I remember the gist of her respons…

Post by vrutberg » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 10:26 PM UTC

mobutu wrote: post #225

vrutberg wrote: post #129

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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.