twenty years experience for being a cashier? i learned how to do it in one night at 16 when i worked at a supermarket.
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Back when I was still on Reddit I remember someone sharing a job posting calling for 10 years of experience in a 5 year old language. I don't know if it was real or not but it's typical of the crazy requirements for those jobs.
I think it could be understood to mean between the two skill sets, having a total of five years experience. But that could be 7 years of python and ten minutes of FastAPI, so it's still a bad metric.
FastApi is is a python web framework. I read this as he did, i.e "5 years in fastapi AND python" as you would need python experience to use fastapi.
They're real. I also encounted one.
its usually because HR didnt interpret tequirements correctly. sometimes when it says 5 years on x language what was originally meant to be said is that you are a programmer that has programmed for at least 5 years (kinda mid level) and you have mid experience with said language, and not necessarily 5 years of said language.
so 5 years of java programming should actually say
5 years of programming/mid seniority programmer who is comfortable with java
That's probably what happened. However the job description as written was kind of silly.
They forgot the requirement for a Master's of Mathematics.
You’ve also got a 20% chance that there isn’t even a real position open and this is a market survey, and a 20% chance that management already selected who they’re going to hire in advance and is doing this job posting purely as a formality.
New grads, with 5 years experience, welcome to apply.
With a sign like that, they definitely need a cashier that knows their math.
What’s even better is when some big company is looking for a Senior employee but they want to pay a junior’s salary..