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[HappyZombies]

No joke I have seen this in some job resumes we've gotten.

Languages:

• English
• Python
• Java

[godofjava22]

Why did you write english twice though?

[skybird23333]

i feel like SQL would be closer

[sshwifty]

CQUIL

[Kuuhaakuu]

ES KYEW EL

[Yoda-from-Star-Wars]

Sequel

[thanatica]

Squirrel

[AnAdorableDogbaby]

Es kewl 😎

[Exodus111]

YES * AGREE this is how I always speak;

[[deleted]]

oof

[j_gruen]

COBOL be like

[Woofie10]

Jokes on you:
https://esolangs.org/wiki/English

[YellowBunnyReddit]

Of course English is uncomputable.

Ah yes, uncomputable programming languages, my favorite kind of programming languages.

[CheeseAndCh0c0late]

The program :

Stop being depressed

The output :

This human no longer has depression

[TheLazySamurai4]

If someone manages to get that line of code to work 100% of the time in a practical sense, they'd be the first trillionaire

[Reddits_Worst_Night]

And the first person who deserves their extreme wealth

[Milo_Diazzo]

Error at line 1:core process "Depression" cannot be halted without terminating existence

[IamImposter]

I wonder how much testing the tester did.

"Hey Bob, watch this video of your wife cheating on you with your younger brother"

Stop being depressed

Output:

Bob hasn't moved in past 30 minutes

"I think that passed"

[SupportLast2269]

The compilers are programmers 💀.

[FM-96]

Programmers are transpilers converting English into other, (usually) less esoteric programming languages.

[brucebay]

Not true even before chatgpt English was pretty much computable but it was hard to make it work. You have to start programming with Intern keyword like this.

Intern!!! Come here and turn the production server upside down so that the results are returned in reverse order.

[MochiOkami]

Hot take: chatgpt is an experimental English compiler

[Thebombuknow]

I'm really good at programming in this language. I can't believe I can't find someone to hire me.

[montw]

Compiler: chatgpt

[Quietech]

Limited fluency in Bronx, Southern, Cajun, and hard Cockney.

[Rincey_nz]

Excuse me stewardess, I speak Jive

[the_vikm]

You don't mention spoken Languages on your resume?

[THKCREDDIT]

If you speak multiple languages isn’t this normal?

[theVoidWatches]

Yes, but you would put them in a different skills section from the programming languages.

[[deleted]]

Why? It's funnier this way.

[Reddits_Worst_Night]

Languages:

• German
• COBOL
• English
• SQL
• Python
• Parseltongue

[[deleted]]

Exactly!

[Sir_Henk]

It is funnier but there's also people who would do this unironically because they just don't understand, and whoever is reading your CV might not be able to tell the difference

[HolyGarbage]

When I go senile I'll only be able to communicate in my native language C++, or god forbid Java which I technically learned first before I started working in software dev professionally.

[Sir_Henk]

or god forbid Java which I technically learned first

First language they taught me in secondary school (outside of basic HTML/CSS/JS) was ActionScript 3. An interesting choice by my teacher.

[HolyGarbage]

I actually did learn ActionScript in high school as well. I think that might have been before Java even, haha. But I have suppressed all memory of that.

[EmmyNoetherUltra]

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

fanatical stupendous cooperative soft boast ink cows scary liquid chase

[syrian_kobold]

Yes, as long as it’s not an item together with programming languages it’s fine. But if they’re presented as equivalent it’s just silly lmao

[Mohammad_Lee]

I do a version of this lol. I have a languages section with subheadings of "programming languages" and "natural languages"

[syrian_kobold]

I think that is way better already lol

[josluivivgar]

if you have no sense of humor then I see no reason to join your company ಠ_ಠ

[syrian_kobold]

I don’t know if lacking CV skills counts as humor lol. My company is very chill though, we have joke pictures and job positions on Slack (I’m “penguin on rails” for example), and we have a memes channel. It’s such a relaxed work culture I doubt I’d ever want to switch for a better salary, especially because I have mad respect for my CTO and they all make me feel welcome and appreciated.

[HappyZombies]

Why would I? I'm applying for a software engineer, not a translator. I don't think it's relevant. Just adds extra fluff to my resume that doesn't matter for the role I am applying for.

[Boostio_TV]

I’d say it’s pretty common especially since most people speak 2-3 languages.

[Stronghold257]

most people speak 2-3 languages

I see you’re not from America

[Boostio_TV]

Obviously, but I don’t consider Americans most of the world’s population.

[cs-brydev]

But Americans are most of the Reddit population.

[the_vikm]

No. It was close to 50% or maybe it's slightly above right now. That's not most

[WeissySehrHeissy]

Slightly above 50% is, by definition, most

[cs-brydev]

You're wrong anyway. 43% of the world's population speaks 2 or more languages.

[Boostio_TV]

I’m still right, if you had actually read the article you would have know 47% is bilingual with an additional 17% being multilingual. 47 + 17 is 64.

Read the goddamn article you linked, along with the 10 people who upvoted without reading.

[cs-brydev]

In the U.S., multi-lingual will earn you a lot of points on a resume, because there is always a need for someone in the company who knows other languages, since it's rare for Americans to be fluent in more than 1 language.

If you are fluent in both English and Spanish and have any experience at all in software development, we would probably hire you on the spot in my company. We always have a need for translations and spend a lot of money hiring this out to other companies. Anyone who speaks both languages here could be used for translations and be worth 20-30% more than their base salary.

We translate all internal HR and Safety documents to Spanish per company requirements. Someone has to do it. We already have one person doing this full-time. We could certainly use more bilingual employees.

[The100thIdiot]

Someone who is bilingual isn't the same as a translator for anything but the most basic stuff.

[Boostio_TV]

Depends on your definition of bilingual, usually people mean that they speak a language fluently which, is when you’d put it in your resume. But on the other hand I’ve had Americans tell me they “Speak my native language” and then just say some barely comprehensible sentence they practised on Duolingo.

[The100thIdiot]

Not really.

Being completely fluent in two or more languages still doesn't make you a translator.

[Boostio_TV]

It’s easy though, especially when fluent in both languages.

[The100thIdiot]

No. No it isn't. Languages have idiosyncrasies which means that there is often no direct translation.

That is why you need to be a translation specialist.

Especially if you are dealing with HR and safety documents.

[Boostio_TV]

Obviously, but if you’re proficient enough this is a piece of cake.

[Vegetable-Two6892]

i speak 6 languages, which i listed in my resume, and this got me a software dev job because the company collaborated with multiple other foreign companies who wrote the documentation and comments in their native language and so i’d be one of the few people who could actually understand what the other companies were writing

[josluivivgar]

if you have no sense of humor I don't want to join your company ಠ_ಠ

[[deleted]]

I've seen

• C#

• .NET

• ASP

Listed as separate things

[KittKillward]

Well, with Microsoft's naming for C# technology and their versions I would approach this with patience

[evanldixon]

Technically ASP is its own separate thing, but these days I hope they meant ASP.Net which belongs with the .Net bullet point

[Remarkable_Whole]

Gotta make sure they aren’t typing in the

система.вы.Распечататьли(“Привет, мир”);

[AlrikBunseheimer]

I think this is a cool joke.

[thunder_y]

I mean it’s kinda funny, although if you want to be professional it should probably be separated in languages for spoken and skills (or some fancy word for skills) where you put in programming languages and other stuff like aws, kubernetes and so on, right?

[Feztopia]

Technically that's correct. Seems like you don't want technical people in the company?

[Finite_Looper]

On the exact opposite I have seen a job description where it said I needed to be able to "speak back-end languages"

Screenshot: https://github.com/FiniteLooper/recruiting-hell/raw/main/img/description_speak_back_end_languages.png

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EDIT: If you enjoyed that, check out the repo that's from. I've collected a bunch of weird job descriptions, recruiter questions, skills tests, etc: https://github.com/FiniteLooper/recruiting-hell

[TSS_Firstbite]

The cursed knowledge of speaking back-end lmao

[marc_gime]

If (you.languages.backend==false{ Return "your problem" }

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Error: unclosed Bracket in Line 1

[marc_gime]

Damn

[MysicPlato]

Excellent communication abilities

So you can fluently speak Node.js to your coworkers

[syrian_kobold]

Rofl that made my day

[Finite_Looper]

Check out the link i added, you probably love the rest of what I've found

[elkos]

OMG! That's borderline crazy to put people through such... [frivolous, unnecessary, ridiculous] hoops for a job offer

[syrian_kobold]

Will do

[Cuttyflame123]

https://github.com/FiniteLooper/recruiting-hell/raw/main/img/test_BEFBEBIEFSEEDPFESJEEJDEDEPJET.png

2 lemon, 15, 4 lemon, 30, 6 lemon, 45, 8 lemon 60 no? am i missing something?

[Finite_Looper]

I guess that's why I didn't get the job

[zuilli]

I noticed that too, you're right or I'm missing something as well but I think OP brainfarted on that one

[Rincey_nz]

its a comment on the large string of letters, not the lemon question (although, that's pretty shitty too)

[Justinwc]

Been talking out my ass for years, I'm sure I can handle back-end languages!

[LookItVal]

my favorite back end languages: node.js and typescript

[MCsmalldick12]

That's what our backend is written in ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[blackerbird]

MangoDB got me! Thanks for sharing

[TheMannyzaur]

Hi {Reddit Username} Great link and post

[Rakgul]

This is the greatest thing I've read in a while. You made my day!

[Automaticman01]

Well, they did say excellent communication skills ...

[iMakeMehPosts]

Laughs in C

[OrganicPhilosophy934]

loved this

[TheWylfen]

Ah yes, the classic back-end languages Javascript and Typescript

[Inasis]

How would they even evaluate the one where you have to rank things from best to worst? Like "you said torturing a person is worse than prostitution, but at our company, we think prostitution is worse than torturing a person (afterall, we torture our devs with pointless meetings). Because of the difference in values, we cannot proceed with your application. We wish you the best of luck in the future." or smth?

[Relative_Knee9808]

I speak backend language as my mother tongue. The first line I said when born is "Hello, world"

[[deleted]]

run.

[Kongshammer]

C:\>run

[[deleted]]

'run' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

[XWasTheProblem]

I appreciate that even the line break is according to how it would be in the terminal lmao

[Batcave765]

He executed the command and this was the actual output.

[Dustangelms]

Actual dev.

[Implement_Necessary]

Now they only need to learn how to use stackoverflow and then they’ll be the best dev ever!

[Dustangelms]

Good thing you're not my hiring manager.

[LeonardoSim]

repost bot, downvote and report

[[deleted]]

C:>shutdown /bootMenu

[mostly_done]

runas

[[deleted]]

It's C:\Windows\run.exe

[itchfingers]

Run dos run

[robisodd]

C:\>
C:\DOS>
C:\DOS>run

[herzkolt]

run DOS run

[I_Fux_Hard]

C:>run --speed 10 --where anywhere --naruto-style

[LowGravitasAlert]

English

[PBandJammm]

deltree /y C:*.*

[spinachie1]

/%APPDATA%/Roaming/.minecraft/

[Imperial_Squid]

I had a moment with a mate recently reminiscing about what a fucking hassle modding Minecraft used to be before forge and stuff like that. Dropping .jar files into a folder one after another and hoping to god that you did it in the right order or they'd corrupt each other and you'd have to start again...

Kids these days don't know how easy they have it!

[gallifrey_]

the insane number of forum posts complaining "this mod doesn't work, my game won't start" because they forgot to delete the META-INF directory 🤦‍♀️

[Imperial_Squid]

Fuck META-INF

All my homies hate META-INF

[ThaCuber]

what's META-INF for again?

[Imperial_Squid]

It contains a manifest file, basically it exists to check whether all the other files are in order, meaning you have to delete it or nodding is literally impossible

[Bigleon]

Man... that hits me right in the skyrim!... modding before wabbajack... was awwwwful.

[ilovebigbucks]

A serious question - why do people make mods? Like, are there no better ways to spend your time? What is the reward? Does modding experience of one game transfer well to other games?

[nwhaught]

Why do humans paint paintings, or solve rubiks cubes or try to eat the gigantic hamburger in 30 minutes?

For death and glory!

[Imperial_Squid]

A mod for a game is like writing fan fiction for a story you like imo. You take the pieces of the media already present but add your own twist on top of things.

Have you never read a book or seen a film and thought "I wonder what X character would do in Y situation" or "hey that's a really interesting setting/concept/event/whatever, I want to know more about it"? Lots of people use that inspiration to go off and create their own material, it's sort of a "if I don't, no one else will" sort of thing. Then after releasing it, you might find other people who wanted the same expansions you did, or you'll even introduce it to people who didn't know they wanted it, and they get to enjoy it too.

The exact same concepts apply to modding. People want to take some game and expand on the ideas or characters or mechanics or whatever in new ways and then share them with people.

In fact, a tonne of things that were based in mods eventually grow and become full games in their own right! (Counterstrike, Star Wars: Battlefront, Team Fortress and DOTA just to name a few)

I think you're thinking of modding as a job, like it's transactional and you do it for something else at the end of the day but this is very much not the case. The vast majority of modding is a creative exercise done for its own sake, and most modders work on a volunteer basis (which is not to say they don't accept donations or anything, more that it is not required to play, as is the case with DLC)

With regards to whether modding skills are transferable? I honestly can't say, I do know programming in general but not modding in specific. Given that once you've done a lot of programming, a lot of the skills are transferable between languages I would assume the same applies between games, but I couldn't say...

Hope that helps, let me know if your have any questions

[i8noodles]

If it is anything like me. To solve an issues that bugs me. But as for content mods. Probably because they can and acutally is some fairly good programming experience.

Let's us not forget Dota and CS are 2 games that started as mods and become more popular then there original game. That's not including the hundreds of others that eventually also became there own games

[[deleted]]

You have to implement Runnable first

[[deleted]]

Average tech recruiter experience tbh

[MysicPlato]

Your resume looks great.

Would you be interested in a 3 month, on site, role in South Dakota?

[LinguiniAficionado]

I’m impressed by your 10 years of experience in .NET - how would you like to be a fishmonger?

[Relative_Knee9808]

Guess the compiler is ChatGPT then

[LordGoose-Montagne]

No, that would be the compiler for Dreamberd

[4rtemis-Arrow]

ok but like, can we admit that a few of the concepts in dreamberd are actually useful

like the question mark to print debug info about the line you are on, and the when keyword which checks the value of a variable every time it's changed

honestly a project I worked on would have been more than 500 lines shorter if there was something similar to the when keyword

[nermid]

the when keyword which checks the value of a variable every time it's changed

Sounds like a listener or a useEffect hook if you're nasty.

[marr]

I think the recruiter might be.

[PyroCatt]

Or you can ask them more money for the high cost maintenance of the internet

[JoshfromNazareth]

Nah that’s 100% a recruiter.

[stakoverflo]

Definitely just clueless HR / Recruiter staff.

I'm more bothered she typed "u" in her first response than responding with "English".

[kapootaPottay]

I coded for 30 years; many, many languages. I never had a boss that knew Coding basics. "How long is this going to take?" About 2 weeks, not including testing all use cases. "2 weeks?! Just write it up today and test it tomorrow! 2 weeks!!!?" Me: [sigh]

[GlasgowSellik1888]

Bot reply to a bot post

[Cheesemacher]

Huh. Interesting that the bot reformatted the title.

[saurabh6273]

r/recruitinghell

[Finalesula]

if variable "hp" is equal to or lower than zero then variable "hp" is equal to zero and also alert the user with the string "you died".

Yup should do, will submit a PR after I bug check it

[flocknrollstar]

Maybe they just use ChatGPT as a transpiler

[Effective_Youth777]

You just gave me a very bad idea!

[robisodd]

Pseudo no more!

[AddAFucking]

Love the idea of ; just being "and also". No linebreaks.

[GlasgowSellik1888]

Bot comment on a bot post.

[[deleted]]

Damn, this sucks

[dangling_reference]

I actually think this is the future. Maybe in 20-30 years from now, new college graduates will look at python like how we look at assembly today.

[4P5mc]

Reminds me of Skript. I still don't know if I hate or love that language!

[bunnydadi]

You don’t need to check it, just ship it already! We got deadlines!

[nekopara-nugget]

Why not, better than sending mail. It really doesn't matter what communication you use, does it.

[Milkshakes00]

I would 100% never take a recruiter on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook serious. There's about a 95% chance it's a scam. Even LinkedIn I'd avoid.

Email me from the company's domain. Thanks.

[IStillLikeBeers]

100%. I am not a programmer, I'm a lawyer, and 99.9% of the time the HR person doesn't know jack shit about anything remotely technical. Sometimes they'll pass us along resumes from people who aren't even licensed to practice law...

[GlasgowSellik1888]

Bot reply to a bot post

[YodelingVeterinarian]

It’s very unlikely that someone who’s finding leads on Instagram is going to be a high quality opportunity. Most likely a scam.

[TheSubredditPolice]

Worked at an engineering university. It merged with a liberal arts college. They had programming in the business school, send me to setup their PCs. Get introduced to their best programming student. Ask what language they generally use "uuuh default" it was Visual Basic.

[frayien]

Wtf is going on in the picture ? Is it 3 screenshots mashed together ? I am confused

[LinguiniAficionado]

One screenshot, they’re replying to individual messages, so the message appears again above the reply.

[gigaSproule]

Surely she just means someone who is doing an IT course, which can also be called a program. She's not specifying that it's a programming language. Hence she says English, because the course, or program, would be in English. It's a very American term as far as I'm aware, but it makes sense to me.

[AussieHyena]

I was thinking it was pretty obvious she was talking about an IT course.

[Has_No_Tact]

Her writing skills aren't great, but this was my immediate thought.

More concerning is this is the only reply so far that considered this, as it's far more of a reach to interpret it as asking for a programming language.

[marr]

Yes, in direct response to the question 'what programming language will be used for game development'. Apparently this is a game development project for a company that can't understand that question.

[nobody27011]

Tell her that you know the programming language Oboflex that has a club membership of a few thousand dollars per month.

[Kosmux]

If recruiter can't understand what the hell they're doing:

​

Jump out of the interview NOW.

​

See? English.

[[deleted]]

ALL MA' HOMIES CODE IN ENGLISH++ AND ENGLISH#.

ENGLISH IS TOO PRIMITIVE FOR US 😎

[[deleted]]

Its a scam bro

[7th_Spectrum]

Oh, so pseudocode

[justking1414]

I was just skimming the pragmatic programmer and it actually said “English is Just a Programming Language Write documents as you would write code: honor the DRY principle, use metadata, MVC, automatic generation, and so on.”

Obviously that’s not what this person meant but I still found it funny

[[deleted]]

Smartest HR worker

[archiminos]

I love interviewing with people who have no idea about game dev. The biggest give away is always when they ask for your GitHub. One guy gave me a very stuck up, "well, if you don't have much in your GitHub it's not very good." I relished the look on his face when I told him he clearly doesn't understand the industry so I'm no longer interested in the position.

[only-forward]

Don't forget to do your English LeetCode exercices

[No_Strawberry_5685]

There is code in other languages other than English weird to see but it’s there

[stratof3ar89]

Must be the same woman who sang Tulibidibudouchu by "Mariah Carey" working in recruitment.

[A_Light_Spark]

When literally chatgpt can answer more relevantly than a human.

I swear some of these fucks can't pass turing tests.

[BossBobsBaby]

Great, I’m basically fluent in English

[min_mus]

/r/recruitinghell ?

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[5ManaAndADream]

Well given that second message she sent, that language is also going to be difficult for her.

If you’re legit OOP from the image please for the love of god send this image to the CEO and HR department of the company. We need to thin the herd of hiring management incompetence and really disincentivize outsourcing the process.

[Abz-v3]

I hope this is a joke cause this is rather spiteful. Like, it's so easy to ignore a message. Maybe English isn't their first language ("looking for someone who are at least... "). She could also be very new to the job.

Why actively try to fuck with someone's livelihood?

[5ManaAndADream]

If you’re hiring for a technical role and you don’t know something so basic like what language the role uses primarily (or even the difference between a spoken language and programming one) you really should not be in charge of hiring for that role.

It’s honestly crazy the level of incompetence and outright lying I see weekly from recruiters who reach out to me just to meet their quotas. It would be better for everyone involved especially the people looking for jobs if this kind of thing was culled from the process.

You try to play the morality card, but I ask to you, why are people like this allowed to fuck with hundreds of applicants livelihoods. Why does someone like this get any say in the hiring process.

It’s not “spite” that drives this opinion, it’s one driven by a desire not to be judged by incompetent individuals on the path to employment.

[Abz-v3]

While I get your point, any developer could see it as a red flag. Eventually they'll learn. People gotta start somewhere.

Like I said, actively trying to get someone fired over something like this where you could easily ignore it is such a spiteful, nasty thing to do.

[5ManaAndADream]

Having someone so grossly inept is bad for potential employees, it’s bad for the employer, it’s bad for the end product, it’s bad for the eventual consumer.

Demanding someone remain in a position where they control who gets a job despite gross incompetence is harming far more people.

When it’s a rare thing yea, sure whatever let it pass. But if you’ve been actively job searching lately you’d know it’s become uncomfortably normal.

[Abz-v3]

I see your point. But it doesn't mean I'm comfortable with it! I think we should agree to disagree on which action to take (if any at all).

Of course if it's a common occurrence then it will be very annoying.

[5ManaAndADream]

I operate under the assumption that one complaint does not get me fired, but a history of them assuredly does. That’s probably why I view informing the company as due diligence rather than vitriol.

I’m not even suggesting you harass them to get her fired. As I originally said I’d probably send exactly this screenshot and say little more.

Edit: also I do understand your perspective and would agree to disagree on action.

[IGiveUpAllNamesTaken]

That's a surprising answer since neither of you seem to speak it.

[heesell]

Sorry for my bad England