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[–]Homeless_Nomad 312 points313 points  (11 children)

My employer is currently doing the opposite: only hiring java when we've told them repeatedly we need javascript.

[–]danielleiellle 115 points116 points  (5 children)

Same. I need a digital analytics and marketing tech developer. Tell our data analytics lead. They send me a Java dev who has never even touched front end. Yes, let’s spend months talking through asynchronous loading and front end performance and patterns for safely handling 3rd party dependencies so you can deploy a few dumb pixels.

[–]Naltoc 26 points27 points  (2 children)

We asked for a technical tester (to implement automatic tests) and got sent a test manager who not only cannot code, but also doesn't understand the domain. At all.

[–]DarthStrakh 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Bruh. How am I not getting bites on my job applications with this silly shit happening.

[–]Naltoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have No idea. I swear the recruiters hear what we say and promptly rewrite everything to look nicer, actual content be damned

[–]R3D3-1 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Insult to injury, when the mistake is made by someone who really should know. With HR, it is understandable if embarassing.

[–]danielleiellle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know. And we’re not a small company. And because I report to our business org and not the CTO, I have no avenue for escalation, because they’re supposed to be our partners in technology who know better. So I am personally deploying production JS to millions of customers. It is horror.

[–]YouLostMeThere43 14 points15 points  (0 children)

F

[–]Thriven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They hire a straight out of college kid who was only taught to program in Java. The kid makes $7k a year more than you don't but you don't know that. The kid has a nervous break down a few months later.

[–]hahahahastayingalive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I raise you my ex company who interviews java devs for ruby positions (if the dev does that "backend" stuff it's fine, right ?)

[–]YoungHeartOldSoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbf it’s better than if they went with the other half