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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

That's a red flag that the managers have no idea what they are asking for and have no idea what it is they make. They just know the last person that probably up and quit to go be a in a completely different career was the only person that retained that knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I have literally 30 years of Visual Basic 3 experience. Somehow, nobody is impressed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

You can make a gui interface to track someone’s ip address

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I bet you could make the best proggies though.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Serious question:

Why is their name blurred when they openly stated they are the one that created the product?

A quick search shows exactly who they are?

I’m serially trying to understand if this is an etiquette in the industry, or something? I’m admittedly ignorant when it comes to tech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's a common internet thing that's probably mostly done just out of habit, it doesn't have any purpose like 90% of the time, but is generally the standard just for those few times where it might actually help

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

It's the whole anti brigading thing. But I think if you're dumb enough to post an ass take in public circles, you deserve the heat. Mods just make it a blanket rule to blur out names so they don't have to actually read anything lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Hope you told them that you were the creator

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

I love this post.

Really encapsulate the idiocy of some HR environments.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

My friend works as a Unix admin and his older coworker, who is paid way more than he is, is essentially useless and always slowing everyone down. Constantly asking basic questions and getting stuck on simple things for a whole day when he doesn’t ask.

Same with driving. I don’t care how long you’ve been doing it if you haven’t put any serious effort into learning and improving after passing your pathetic, weak test 38 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I feel like this is almost every company ever. Incompetent people near the top being propped up by lesser paid people doing all the work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No shame in asking questions

Tech fields are always moving forward, if someone has a question they should ask instead of guess

Further, older entrants with experience in older technologies have value that a company may need that newer entrants may not have really had the opportunity to ever work with. Deprecated technology still runs a lot of systems and companies will drag their feet in moving on because they have these older people working for them that, if a problem comes up they're going to deal with and the company perception is that it's cheaper than updating the entire thing to more modern solutions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Oh I should be clear that this person is absolutely a problem. They’re far less effective at their job, don’t learn for long after the question is asked, and the value they bring to the team is, in some ways, less than a fairly young person. And yet they’re paid more because “experience”.

I have the same thing in my field(architecture and structural engineering firms) as a technologist. People who refuse to learn new skills with the software constantly hold back people willing to put in the effort.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

Who asks for years of experiences of fastAPI? That's so weirdly specific. I doubt this story is real.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's real, but it's just a rehash of a similar comment that has been shared by other creators.

EG> https://i.redd.it/pasoyucdh0e11.jpg

EG> https://i.redd.it/18qn7jkllr4x.png

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, I've seen it. I just went through the whole job hunting thing again, and the main thing employers want (I'm a Data Engineer) is many years of experience using their specific tech stack. 5 years with dbt. 10 years with Snowflake. 6 years with FastAPI... and so on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I guess there's lots of idiots hiring. We definitely state our specific stack as a bonus, but expecting candidates to be these magical unicorns that know exactly what you need... It's so insane. I much rather hire someone motivated to learn.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Job posting requirements are done by a game of telephone where each person down the line is less technical than the previous.

A manager is able to hire a mid-level engineer, which their company defines as 4+ years of experience. An engineer tells the manager what technologies they use, bringing up fastAPI at some point. The manager then gives this list to someone who writes up the job posting who just puts 'requires 4+ years' on every bullet.

Nearly every job posting that asks for more experience than is possible or for something weirdly specific happens this way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Yup, exactly. The job postings aren’t written by the people who do the job, or even know what the job does.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Shit was out of hand checks post date FIVE YEARS AGO.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

You need 7+ years of experience with shit being out of hand to make that call.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So he'll have more than five years experience now? Great, he can finally land a job.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

Requires 9+ years of experience with FastAPI

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

The amount of jpeg is respectable for 5 years

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830

Sebastián Ramírez

@tiangolo

I saw a job post the other day. 👔

It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. 🤦

I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since > I created that thing. 😅

Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience = skill level". ♻

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Woah, how did you figure out the censored username?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Sorcery, I'm sure. Burn Fog0555 as a witch!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, first we gotta see if they weigh the same as @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I feel attacked?

I’m so confused, but yeah, that ais a shitty tactic. Next they’ll bitch about no one being qualified.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

For reference, @tiangolo wrote FastAPI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Fyi, i think you might've missed the part where he mentioned that

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

@tiangolo

I created that thing.

....

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Yeah no shit buddy. Read that post you originally replied to very carefully.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago

okay but did you know that he wrote it? :O

[–] [email protected] 121 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Does it make sense to blur names when they're still relatively easy to decipher, when the project can be found on github and the top committer links to their Twitter account? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly blurring usernames when the original post was on a public website is completely unnecessary

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Why do we blur names again and still properly link to the source xeet URL?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 hours ago

And it's especially important here because that's the creator of FastAPI...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

And it's a common enough meme that I've seen around for years, unblurred at that? That ship has sailed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago

And you could just google the text in the post and find it.