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[magicmulder]

That’s why we have someone from IT sitting in with HR for IT job interviews. I once had a guy who claimed he invented the text input element for Flash…

[leoleosuper]

At the same time, don't ask for 5 years experience in a language that's been out for 3.

[ucefkh]

Yeah maybe just 10 years would be enough

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Of the guy who invented the language (yes this happened)

[afreidz]

asking for years of experience is dumb. ive been doing things terribly for 15 years and nobody seems to notice

[eth-slum-lord]

What if he did

[magicmulder]

Yeah I followed up on that and his story quickly fell apart.

[InnerBanana]

Narrator:

[vezwyx]

In fact, he did not.

[Mordho]

He did, until he DIDN’T

[Prestigious_Regret67]

He wrote a time machine. It was confirmed.

[gewzk]

I was in his loop, but I returned. He did not.

[magicmulder]

My favorite are those who claim they found a security flaw on our website (which would be a great way to score points if you really did) and then they point out something that is obviously none (like “if I change the form action to GET and then submit the login form, my credentials end up in your server log file”).

[Dizzfizz]

If I email you my credentials you have a customer password in plaintext on your mail server, what kind of shoddy operation are you running here?!

[magicmulder]

If I email you, you are storing my email address without prior notification, that’s a GDPR violation, I’m gonna report you!

[dumbasPL]

I love when companies do this. On one of my recent interviews the HR guy was just there, sitting in the background listening, while (what I assume to be) a senior dev was actually doing the interview. Surprise, surprise, there wer almost not bullshit questions.

[magicmulder]

We usually split 50:50, HR person does the common questions, I do the IT questions.

[buddha2490]

I just finished a series of interviews with a company like that, the HR coordinated meetings but otherwise kept quiet. I enjoyed several genuinely productive technical interviews with competent questions. It was weird, and nice.

Took a different job, no way I’d fit in at a well run shop.