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- TheShitpostOffice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1225706/peak-hr
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While job hunting about a year ago I found a pretty interresting listing. It seemed to fit quite well with my skills and interrests, while being an entry position. Perfect for newly graduated me! It however required 25 YEARS of experience… For entry level… Wtf?
Looking for “Time Travelling Senior Software Developer” …
Imagine being in the tech industry and going to work for Yahoo, it would be like working in a palliative care unit at a hospital.
“We’ve got a couple of products and we need you to keep them alive.”
Tech Industry paliative care is more mainframe stuff and systems still running in DOS.
Pallative care suggests the thing is going to die. The stuff that is still mainframe or still DOS at this point is going to be that way to the end of time and is immortal.
Uhh you have no idea what palliative care in the tech industry looks like. As shitty as you think Yahoo is, there are MUCH shittier tech jobs.
I’ve made fun of yahoo before and deeply offended people who still use it lol
They own AOL. Don’t you know big up-and-comer!
The dev that built Ruby on Rails got turned down for a job where the requirement was using Ruby On Rails for coding due to his lack of experience using it. LOL.
Yep, as with this one, they wanted someone with a chronologically impossible amount of experience.
Like, they want someone to have been in presumably a bootstrap paradox time loop for 3 or 4 of those 10 years.
If your HR is this stupid… you’re not gonna get good candidates.
Which is apparently the point, they’re just advertising that they are incompetent and have absurd expectations, they just want someone who can lie well.
I have at least 150 years of experience with Claude.
“Seeking a construction foreman to join our hammer powered construction crew.”
“Seeking a surgeon or join our scalpal powered surgical team.”
“Seeking CPA to join our Excel powered accounting firm.”
This is how these kind of job postings look to actual candidates.
Unfortunately I know a bunch of incredibly shitty devs who will jump at opportunities like this, because they couldn’t cut it as real engineers and went all in on “prompt engineering”
I think the use of ‘-powered’ in a job description is a clear indication that you are applying for a bullshit job.
This sort of requirement comes up in civil engineering all the time.
Your job may include running finite element models (FEM) and the office uses STAAD. When getting new candidates, the preference will be like this: those who have used STAAD, those who have used several other FEM programs, those who have used one FEM program, and those who don’t. Usually, it gets presented as requiring FEM experience with a preference to STAAD.
There may even be cases where a program may be different enough that the requirement is knowledge in that program. For instance, Bentley’s Open Roads is considered to be very different from AutoDesk Civil 3D to the point where Civil 3D experience only gets considered if there is no better applicant even though the two software packages do mostly the same thing.
I’ve seen this on every platform out there and someone shared it at work, but always as a deep-fried jpeg without a link to the source. Does anyone know if it’s actually a real job posting?
Possibly but probably not. It has been a common trope about HR for ages
Since dogs age about 7x faster, time for Air Bud: Hacker Pupz
Ain’t no rule says dogs can’t hack Gibsons.
I’m going to guess this position is for a person already in the company but they are required to post a listing for it due to corporatism bullshit
My guess is VP McJorgen told HR he needs another senior dev with Claude code experience. HR specialist McSmitty pulls up the job description for senior dev, sees 10+ yr experience and makes the job listing, completely unaware of the age of the technology.
Yeah, this too, “Need someone very familiar with…” HR translates to “10+ years experience” without even a thought.
“Fortunately”, writing absurd, innacurate, vapid and mislesding job descriptions, as well as sussing out emotional weight of interview responses and asking a canned battery of questions…
Well, LLMs actually can do that about as well as most HR and recruiters can.
Or HR just doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
You can always assume that HR has no idea what they are talking about.
Eh… What… Claude didn’t exist 10 years ago. This is one of the reasons managers hate HR, they don’t beep so can’t hire the talents they need.
B Yeah there was a guy who made a type of code, sold it, and then couldn’t get a job working on his own code because everyone did this wanting 5+ years on something released a month prior.
It’s so they can have job listings out and be able to claim the jobs exist for clout while ensuring no one will take/get the position.
They do it with all kinds of things, and then either say you don’t have the experience or if you play their game and say you have the experience they call you overqualified.
TL;DR Report and pass
Lots of those job listings have less connection to the actual department that’s recruiting than would be expected. Lots of room for miscommunication and also just bullshit.
Good thing he accented the lines with emojis, it really kept me engaged!
Ruby on Rails dude got denied a Ruby on Rails job
Microsoft talked with the dev of AppGet to make winget, but refused to hire him.
Yeah, did they mean 1 year? lmao.
Claude Code is an agentic command line tool released in February 2025 that enables developers to delegate coding tasks directly from their terminal using natural language prompts.
Probably just copying job reqs and not thinking. 10 years experience as a dev. 10 years with tool X. Copy, paste, change tool to Claude. Done.
Or they’re intentionally making it impossible for someone to meet the reqs so they can give someone internal the job or so they can take the opening offshore and pay someone drastically less for the same position.
They don’t need impossible requirements to do that.
I’ve only got 23 years of experience vibe coding. Think I should apply?
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Praise Claude! As in ten years, as ten years ago, from the beginning of time to the end of all days, Claude be. Claude be with you, co-author of all things; ask all unto Claude.
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Ah yes, secure and maintainable hallucination of somebody else’s code.
Guess they should have asked claude to help write their hiring terms.
How do think they managed to sound as stupid as they have?
How do think Claude sounds as stupid as it does?
Pssh! The dude that invented the Time Machine using Claude…but is stuck in time loops because of it…isn’t going to take this job anyway
