• @[email protected]
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    6511 hours ago

    Been doing the job search and it’s frustrating how bad most of the job postings are. There’s so much filler nonsense.

    I pretty much just want to know like

    • tech stack
    • team size
    • big picture what the company does
    • if they’re assholes about in-office mandates
    • salary range

    Some postings are like “must know Java, go, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, or rust” and I’m like do you use all of those?

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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      256 minutes ago

      I like the ones where the tech stack is literally every language/framework in use by anybody anywhere. Maybe you guys should try picking the stuff that’s best suited for whatever it is you’re doing.

    • fmstrat
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      64 hours ago

      Had an old boss that wouldn’t put our stack in JDs because he felt any truly good programmer could pick it up. I mean, true, but it’s not efficient hiring, or effecient business practice.

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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        352 minutes ago

        I would actually like to work at a place like that. I’ve worked with a very wide variety of languages and platforms and I don’t much care which one I use now. I’m much more interested in what the project is than in what tools are being used to produce it.

        Just kidding - nobody has interesting projects any more.

    • @BrotherL0v3
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      86 hours ago

      I keep getting recruiters sending me in-office jobs on the other side of the country and not even telling me the salary range. You’re asking me to break my lease, uproot my family, and leave behind all my local friends. If your salary is low enough that you don’t want to advertise it up front, why would I ever even consider doing all that?

    • @[email protected]
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      45 hours ago

      must know Java, go, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, or rust

      Depending on the division you ended up in at the company I work you might need one or more of MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, VB.NET, Terraform, Groovyscript, or PowerBuilder.

    • @[email protected]
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      149 hours ago

      salary range

      Sorry, you have to pass multiple rounds of interviews and get approved for the job before we tell you, which is not wasting anyone’s time when you find out it’s substantially less than you’ll accept. Why can’t we find people to fill this position? No one wants to work anymore.

      • @[email protected]
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        109 hours ago

        I think at least New York now requires jobs to post a range. I haven’t even seen bullshit like “$50k - $500k” - maybe the law was written strongly enough that they can’t loophole it that way.

    • @Valmond
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      811 hours ago

      We got an opening, are you looking?

      When, where, what, how, … Aaaaagh

    • @Tanoh
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      29 hours ago

      I just started skipping the first 1-2 pages of all ads, they usually just talk about what a fantastic company they are, etc. Just noise that no one is interested in, not even the ones lying about it.

      At the end after all the fluff there is usually a description of what you are supposed to know and do. And if there isn’t, well I am not wasting my time with them.

      Also, describing salary range seems very different in different countries

    • @vane
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      29 hours ago

      I just want to know what I will be doing and they say Java, go, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, or rust and I am like. I don’t do compilers.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 hours ago

          They mean they’d rather debug at runtime, preferably in production, with minimal instrumentation.

        • @vane
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          5 hours ago

          Writing that programming languages is the thing you will be working on. Not what application you will be doing because you’re just a tool, not human being.