I love this post.
Really encapsulate the idiocy of some HR environments.
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? 🤔
Honestly blurring usernames when the original post was on a public website is completely unnecessary
And it’s especially important here because that’s the creator of FastAPI…
I have literally 30 years of Visual Basic 3 experience. Somehow, nobody is impressed.
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.
I’m always horrified when people talk about how it’s not that easy to pass your driving test (Victoria Australia).
Yikes, I hardly drive, rent a car when I need one, and I’m considered “good” by some, because I passed on the first try? I feel like the barrier to entry is far too low.
Though, such is life when you allow the city to expand to the ridiculous levels it has without adequate public transport…
Here in Canada we don’t even really bother with parallel parking anymore. There is also zilch when it comes to training related to driving in snowy and icy conditions. You have to figure that out on your own, so long as you don’t get a stunt driving ticket.
The bar is so, so low and people still manage to limbo their way under it with astonishing regularity.
Who asks for years of experiences of fastAPI? That’s so weirdly specific. I doubt this story is real.
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.
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.
