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Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates?
Nerval's Lobster writes The short answer: Yes. Many employers' "required" skill sets seem to include everything but the ability to teleport and build a Shaker barn; the lengthy requisites of skills and experience seem achievable only by candidates who've spent the past four decades using a hundred different programming languages and platforms to excel at fifty different, complicated jobs. Why do a lot of tech companies do that? Dice asked around and discovered a bunch of different reasons. Companies want to make investments in talent, but the inherent costs of that talent also make them wary of hiring anyone but the absolute best. The need to find the right talent, and the concern over cost, often leads to employers producing job descriptions too broad for the actual position. There's also pure idiocy: PHBs don't know what they want, don't understand the technology, and throw just anything into the description that pops to mind. Is there any way to stop this scourge?
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It's hurtles all the way down.
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
Nah the HB-1 doesn't lower the requirements because he's "certified" to know whatever you want him to know. Of course when he actually gets on the job it turns out that he doesn't know jack shit.
You mean my 15 yrs Java developer experience is not good enough!!? I also have 10 yrs of android developement, springs struts, struts2 and hibernate.
What my age you say? 22 yrs.