@@Nemean-se5k no lol, companies have been posting fake job listings in an active effort to gaslight their existing employees into thinking they might actually get some relief on their overburdened job duties. Several companies have admitted to it even
Apparently this is common because HR writes those job postings and handles the interviews, and they simply aren't consulting with anyone who knows anything about tech
It's extremely common, and easy to find, too. Any time a new buzzword tech stack releases, you can look through job postings and half of them will be requiring 3-5 years in the brand new tech. HR just has "3-5 years experience" as their default, and have no awareness of if that is even possible since they know nothing about technology and have no technological advisors.
This remind me about a story of a guy who wrote a specific program. He applied to work for a company that used the program he made, only to be told he didnt have enough experience lol
I heard one of these stories about the creator of Python (Guido van Rossum) where during an interview the interviewer called him out for using a feature that didn't exist in the language. His response was "It will be in the next version."
Reminds me of those stories where the applicant says something "wrong", and the interviewer says they should read up on the foremost expert not recognizing the applicant is that expert.
I had a similar experience. I have 10 years of experience in various backend languages. I applied for a Golang position, a language rarely used in our country. I got an interview, but for a Java position. They denied me the Golang position because I hadn't worked on a professional project with it in the last 5 years. My private project didn't matter. HR didn't want to burden the project manager with hiring an inexperienced Golang developer. The fun fact is, I hadn't used Java in the last 5 years either.
"year of experience" is just "skill level". Don't feel bad about "lying" if you have the skill. I remember being asked if I had 5 years .NET Core experience when it was only 3 years old 😂
SO FU KING TRUE! I cant even describe how right this dude is! As someone who works with a lot of new emerging tech, his videos about stuff like this and companies wnating you to just roll a brand new version of whatever AI out the door in 2.2 days to 1.5 weeks, spot on....
I got declined for jobs because I only had step7 experience not the new Tia portal of Siemens. So I got a job now where I am going to get a training in tia.i have not got the training yet, but I have programma in tia for a month it's the F#* same just went from A win95 interface to a XP and unified there different programming tools in to one programma that btw is supper bloated it takes 2gb of free ram to open it is insanely. And minor changes to how things are called. But 99% of what I'm doing is what I have been doing before. But just because the name changed you got to get a training is a hr mentality
Bro Istg I saw the dude who created fastapi say he didn’t get a job because he didn’t have 3 years experience with it It came out literally 6 months before the interview
Also, it is a common way to legally hire a specific individual in countries with fair hiring practice laws. Companies have to interview any people that apply, but it's just a formality.
I had that with Windows ME years ago, 8-10 years with ME, that barely a few months out. All other variants don't count, and ME was already getting the reputation of the worst version of Windows. But this does show the disconnect some companies have. They want more experience than something has been out but will also call BS if you say you did more it's been out. And then in the next breath say "nO oNe WaNt'S tO wOrK"
I actually knew someone who was asked to have 2+ years experience using a framework they actually worked on developing that was only been released for about 6 months at the time
In a few years, I can actually be someone who has several years of experience in a language when it was just released. (I'm in a private beta for a new programming language)
Huh..i wanted to snap my phone in half in understanding and anger for how relatable this is. Fuck recruiters that put literally no God damn effort into their jobs.
Entry level jobs now require at least 5 years of experience after you graduate. However once you have that experience you are overqualified for entry level but not qualified enough for mid level jobs. I just started counting my personal research and university years as experience.
A problem as old as time, back in 99 it was common to need 5 years of java experience. I've decided these sort of requirements are a test to weed out developers who are too autistic to lie, and so it is ok to just tell them whatever they want to hear because they definitely wont hire you if you hurt their feelings by correcting them.
"So Sir, you're 18 fresh out of high-school on ever worked at a restaurant but you claim 3+ years of experience with C++ in a business environment?" Yes ma'am I worked illegally!
nah this is kinda weak. here in the Philippines: job description: *must be 20 - 30 years old *with 30 years experience just so they can outsource you. haha
Easy fix, create your own business in an easy start up, use that money to invest in another business that you are starting up. That new business will be the competition for the one who are fake hiring, use every trick in the book to run their business out.
As far as I’m concerned 5years experience means you’re “fluent and can quickly solve new problems programmatically”, 3years “very familiar with the language “ , 1year “you can do basic tasks” Yet another inaccurate measure of ability by hiring staff
to be honest profesional knowledge is based on working with something for 8 hours a day. If you spend 16 hours coding per day, it makes it a two day experience. Or at least thats how Imagine it works and thats why i put more time than normal on coding knowledge.
