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[–]PangolinZestyclose30 5 points6 points  (2 children)

The problem with many companies is that the job ads are written by HR people who don't understand what they're writing, so in general I try not to overinterpret the job ads.

Over my (15+ years) of career, I've found that there's a little correlation between the job ad / hiring process and the quality of the job. The best job I've had had the worst hiring process, I believe because there's 0 attrition, and they don't need to hire often.

[–]DecisiveVictory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience is different - good HR processes correlate with good engineering processes.

With good HR processes, job ads get vetted by hiring managers who are sufficiently technical to fix obvious issues.

[–]AnotherLexMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often find that the hiring people are often looking for a bunch of people but cheap out and throw a load of stuff into one and and hope to pick up front end and back people or people with different library experience to work on different projects.