As a not the best engineer who is looking for a job I heartily agree
It’d be nice if their experience shopping lists weren’t hilarious. No, I don’t have experience with every automation tool under the sun (or whatever). I’ve tried a few and worked extensively with them as they’re a tool to get the job done. I’m not running a tool review podcast, I’ve got shit to do. I’m sure I can learn to use whatever tool you’re using just fine but I’m not going to spend time trialling everything on the market just in case when that time could be used to get results with the tools I have. Holy run-on sentence, Batman.
Had that recently with job scheduling tools. They used two and I had a good amount of experience with one which is the one they use more but specific experience with the other was apparently vital. Again we are talking job scheduling tools and there was a laundry list of other technical requirements I met. I don’t think those who were hiring even understood the relative complexity of the technologies.
Ah, the thing you’re missing that the hiring people understand is that by learning one you are now unable to learn another. I assume that in situations where both are needed genetic engineering is involved.
I keep getting calls from recruiters that see my previous experience and think I’d be a great fit for x role. Then we talk. They want someone who can run helpdesk, IT engineering, AND be an “above average” programmer in whatever language they decide on.
This has happened to me at least a half dozen times in the past year.
The last guy I talked to told me he has been trying to get the company he’s representing to understand that anyone with the qualifications they’re asking for is going to just be a software engineer, not an IT Systems Engineer or Admin. And he’s dead right. But he said they won’t budge and they want their goddamned underpaid unicorn.
Just imagine working in that position. They’ll give you some massive, unrefined programming problem on day one and tell you to work on that when no users or hardware need help.
Three months later, they start asking why the massive, unrefined programming problem isn’t solved yet, when you had practically no time to work on it, because they probably should’ve hired a person each for helpdesk and IT.
That’s basically what my job currently is except I’m not a programmer, so I always get shit on, which is why I’ve been trying to find another one. The last thing I want to do is jump into another idiotic startup with unrealistic expectations.
Interesting recruiting company. Are these common in Silicon Valley?
