I’m in HR and think about this a lot; it’s (mostly) a marker of poorly run companies when they say experience in software X is required. Mostly these orgs are using one of several software solutions and by saying a candidate must have experience in a specific software means the company is brittle; can’t train, wants to hire non-thinkers and learners, and also likely isn’t looking ahead at what will change in the future.
Software change will only accelerate likely, so hire learners.
You also want people who can follow rules and meet expectations. We don’t need any one getting to adventurous in there job. Problem solving is great but sometimes it is best to stay on the beaten path.
The best one I saw was someone going for a job with a company that uses a particular platform stack. He didn’t get the job with the company saying you don’t have enough experience with said platform.
Except he wrote the platform.
Never heard of this one tbh. The creator of homebrew was rejected at Google when he failed to implement a basic algorithm. The people interviewing him were using the software he wrote. But tbf, if you’re applying at Google they expect you to be able to invert a binary tree
I’m in HR and think about this a lot; it’s (mostly) a marker of poorly run companies when they say experience in software X is required. Mostly these orgs are using one of several software solutions and by saying a candidate must have experience in a specific software means the company is brittle; can’t train, wants to hire non-thinkers and learners, and also likely isn’t looking ahead at what will change in the future.
Software change will only accelerate likely, so hire learners.
You also want people who can follow rules and meet expectations. We don’t need any one getting to adventurous in there job. Problem solving is great but sometimes it is best to stay on the beaten path.
It jobs:
Need 10 years experience in 1 year old tech
Or
Need 10 years experience in tech that stopped existing 10 years ago.
Or
Need 10 years experience in this software that is a felony to use outside our business and the government.
The best one I saw was someone going for a job with a company that uses a particular platform stack. He didn’t get the job with the company saying you don’t have enough experience with said platform.
Except he wrote the platform.
Never heard of this one tbh. The creator of homebrew was rejected at Google when he failed to implement a basic algorithm. The people interviewing him were using the software he wrote. But tbf, if you’re applying at Google they expect you to be able to invert a binary tree
Ah, I see you’re familiar with my company
I refer to this as companies wanting to hire the person who just quit.
😂 that’s great