Scavenger_Solardaddy"me: i have 40 years of experience. Them: how old are you? me: i'm 20"
Grammaton ClericBetter get on building that time machine đ
Fun fact: This meme is now old enough that you could have 8 years of Swift experience!
Midnight WolfNah, too much now. They want 8, 8+, 8 pro, or 8 pro max. They arenât paying for 9 or any 9 time derivatives, not in the budget. The guy they finally found last year was recently let go.
SjmarfApple never made a 9 anyway. Its either 8 or 10+
Itâs a tweet, not a meme
If itâs shared like a meme, itâs a meme - thatâs literally the only qualification
Theyâre the same picture
My favorite is the guy who wrote a certain piece of software was told he didnât have enough experience with it.
massive_bereavementThat would be Google and the guy is the homebrew dev. Or that could also be Guido van Rossum when he was asked if he had Python experience.
Fast api or something.
It was indeed the FastAPI dev
twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830?l⊠(sorry for the Twitter link)
SebastiĂĄn RamĂrez (@tiangolo) on X
I saw a job post the other day. đ It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. đ€Š I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing. đ Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience = skill level". â»
Thank you. That is the one. I loved it.
In the US at least they shouldnât be asking your age during interviews.
They can ask to see if youâre too young. They simply canât discriminate if youâre too old. Because young people canât vote but old people vote religiously, so old people get the protections from lawmakers. But they can absolutely discriminate as long as they arenât blatant about it, because proving it is virtually impossible.
Same way they arenât allowed to discriminate based on marital status, but they can look to see if youâre wearing a ring during your interview. That one is particularly common in jobs that require a lot of travel; Interviewers will look for a ring, and almost never hire anyone who is married. Because if you have a family, youâre not going to last in the job as long as someone who is single with no local ties. Alternatively, an old tip for interviewing in office jobs is to wear a ring to the interview even if youâre single. Because an office position is more likely going to be looking for someone stable and needing to support a family.
SuiXi3DThey simply canât discriminate if youâre too old.
Tell that to me 65 year old father who, despite owning his own business and running it successfully for 33 years, still canât afford to retire due to his own and my motherâs ongoing health issues. As a result, heâs trying to find work and, lo and behold, canât find anyone thatâll hire him because of his age.
Read the rest of the paragraph.
He isnât too old. Heâs overqualified.
Even blatant discrimination is almost impossible to prove.
Most companies wonât ask you for your age in an interview and itâs a giant red flag if they do. If youâre over 45 and they ask and you donât get the job you may have a case (not that itâs likely to do you much good.) -this is only relevant to the US!-
Also I do want to point out that in my experience dealing with hiring managers (especially when I was in HR) it wasnât true that a ring would help you land a corporate job, unless you were a man. A ring wouldnât make anyone hesitate to hire you for a travel job, if you were a man. The assumption being your wife would pick up the slack at home but if you were a married woman youâd be more likely to sacrifice career goals for a family (existing kids, or if you were young then you were likely to âstart a family soonâ regardless of if it were true.)
Also interviewers can ask about anything they can see in the background if youre doing a virtual interview. That picture behind you with your two young kids is now up for discussion. Many companies wonât let you ask âdo you have kidsâ but if the picture of your family vacation is visible then I can ask about that because you displaying the image counts as your having âbrought it up.â I cant ask about your political views but theres a copy of mein kampf behind you on the book case or BLM flag on the wall? Fair game. So be aware of whats behind you during interviews.
Happens all the time. I once applied to a job that required 5 years C# experience...in 2004. Needless to say I didn't get the job. Mostly because I had only graduated I 2000 and apparently wasn't experienced enough.
Hey if they can write whatever they want than so can I, hell i have 30 years of swift experience
The requirements are more of a suggestion. In my experience recruiters have no clue what theyâre even asking for, just apply anyway and recognize you need some experience in what they are asking about because itâll come up in the interview
5 years later and Iâm finally qualified! Is the position still open?
Tweet is six years old. Go for it.