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.
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.
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.
Who asks for years of experiences of fastAPI? That’s so weirdly specific. I doubt this story is real.
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
One of the originals was with Active Directory so this thing is very old.
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.
Yup, exactly. The job postings aren’t written by the people who do the job, or even know what the job does.
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.
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.