One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
That's a nice Job Description from hell. Basically they expect the new employee to be an entire IT department. In fact my educated guess is that they don't expect it, they know their job offer is poorly written and unrealistic.
You can find out by asking:
So, I have read your online job offer from hell, and I have found this very impressive list of fake requirements that nobody asking for this kind of salary needs to have.
Just to be sure that I understood it correctly, could you give me your own take of what is really needed to start doing this job here?
Because a bit of realpolitik here: if really you have all of those competences, you are welcome to apply, but not as a line-of-assemblee worker but directly to be head of engineering, CTO or something. And ask for the corresponding salary, unless you enjoy being overqualified and underpaid.
Of course, with such jobs fake requirements, a pretty good guess is that none of their current emplyees would have been hired. Because let's be clear, they didn't know all of this the day they started. They just learnt on the job, which is what sane people do.
My advice would be simply to run away from this nonsense.
Yes, it's fine and good that you want to have more technical skills.
But working on your technical skills and finding a job are two issues that you should separate from each other.
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Well funny enough in my country Serbia almost every job description for devops or for an software engineer is like that. I am annoyed with that as I also get into situations where I don't know what of those technologies is really needed I have them all but not really mastered all of those technologies.
So many times I do not apply to such job descriptions even if the company that posting them is company I am interested to work in.
Its annoying so much as it allows really uneducated HR people to choose people that are more assertive in presenting their knowledge including the ones who fake knowledge of the technologies.
Instead of searching for people who are really good in things that job position demand and who can learn other things related to project they search for someone who have knowledge of all technologies used on project or used in the department.
Fortunately there are the other more realistic job offers that I am applying to.
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
you don't have to apply to those offers. create a personal connection with the other devs doing a similar job and you will find out the it's easier then you thought. it's just a fact that a lot of companies need the king of skills that you have
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NO, and you don't need them either to find a job.
That's a nice Job Description from hell. Basically they expect the new employee to be an entire IT department. In fact my educated guess is that they don't expect it, they know their job offer is poorly written and unrealistic.
You can find out by asking:
Because a bit of realpolitik here: if really you have all of those competences, you are welcome to apply, but not as a line-of-assemblee worker but directly to be head of engineering, CTO or something. And ask for the corresponding salary, unless you enjoy being overqualified and underpaid.
Of course, with such jobs fake requirements, a pretty good guess is that none of their current emplyees would have been hired. Because let's be clear, they didn't know all of this the day they started. They just learnt on the job, which is what sane people do.
My advice would be simply to run away from this nonsense.
Yes, it's fine and good that you want to have more technical skills.
But working on your technical skills and finding a job are two issues that you should separate from each other.
Well funny enough in my country Serbia almost every job description for devops or for an software engineer is like that. I am annoyed with that as I also get into situations where I don't know what of those technologies is really needed I have them all but not really mastered all of those technologies.
So many times I do not apply to such job descriptions even if the company that posting them is company I am interested to work in.
Its annoying so much as it allows really uneducated HR people to choose people that are more assertive in presenting their knowledge including the ones who fake knowledge of the technologies.
Instead of searching for people who are really good in things that job position demand and who can learn other things related to project they search for someone who have knowledge of all technologies used on project or used in the department.
Fortunately there are the other more realistic job offers that I am applying to.
you don't have to apply to those offers. create a personal connection with the other devs doing a similar job and you will find out the it's easier then you thought. it's just a fact that a lot of companies need the king of skills that you have
Usually, these job descriptions are designed for reach: the bigger the net, the bigger the catch 😂