To be fair, there's not many more CF jobs than MOVA jobs these days :-)
On a serious note, there was a moment when candidates were claiming to have 10+ years of Rails experience when DHH was literally the only person in existence who could make that claim
It’s funny how I came across some posting that wanted 10 years of Java when that wasn’t possible. I asked the recruiter what the deal was and they said they had to choose from a drop down of “1-3,3-10,10+” so they chose the highest one because Java was really important.
They didn’t even know what Java was or how old it was.
This helped me understand how little misunderstandings can get amplified into things that seem really specific and set in stone. So the whole “question everything” approach really helps here as assuming that just because a number is specific that it was chosen for a specific reason is rarely true.
> To be fair, there's not many more CF jobs than MOVA jobs these days :-)
20-year CF dev here. It's a weird market. There aren't a lot of jobs, but there also aren't a lot of candidates. So interviews have an interesting power dynamic. Sometimes they're downright fun because you both know that the company doesn't have a lot of other options.
On the other hand, if I'm ever unemployed, I know that power dynamic will be working against me.
On a serious note, there was a moment when candidates were claiming to have 10+ years of Rails experience when DHH was literally the only person in existence who could make that claim
https://www.strategic-options.com/insight/2019/06/13/you-can...