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Posted on 10/07/2025 4:01:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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the majority can easily be tested and punted
Matches my experience posting a job for full stack developer. 600 applications, most of whom weren’t qualified. 2/3 of the remainder lied on their resumes.
I’ve never seen this in 40 years of hiring and building dev teams.
I feel very thankful to have caught the IT wave back in the late 80s. I took it for granted back then and now realize how fortunate I was.
A bunch of gobbledygook .
You could hire someone who knows how to learn. You could mentor. You could groom. You could train. Find someone who is 80% of what you are looking for and then get them up to 100%. No? That's not in the budget? You require absolute perfection right out of the gate? Well, it might be hard to find that person. And it's only going to get harder.
I checked out when 3 or 4 guys asked me how I could produce a query, based upon part no. that had 2 tables which had, a master file table mind you, which had different attributes of the same component. Is that an inner our outer table join?
oh hai there, Little Bobby Tables :)
You have touched a very important topic. Computer companies did train employees in the 60s and 70s; and, their internal schools were top notch. The semiconductor industry also trained engineers in the use of their products, particularly for the more esoteric devices like bit-slice elements and register files and such.
Companies would be surprised at how effective those programs would be.
I forgot to include in my last post that I had magnificent mentors. One used to work at Bell Labs. One was from Lockheed Aerospace. I even had very quality mentoring from one of “Grace’s Girls”. The best tutor during my undergraduate studies was an IBM CE; and, he was trained at a number of IBM schools.
I am duly imporessed.
Hiring managers and companies have been total asshoes for going on 20 years.
It’s no wonder developers are grasping at straws.
Grace herself once handed my father a length of wire (about 10 inches long) saying that it represented a billionth of a second of electronic transmission.
A dueling game of bots talking to bots.
Please mail in your resume using $10 in postage.
Watch the problem of too many obviously unqualified applicants disappear.
>> “Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired”.
LOL
The referred and recruited have long been preferred over unsolicited and ad-responding applicants.
But an increasingly national or even international job market, with tech making ever more applications possible, makes the raw numbers climb. Reminds me of applications to college. The easier it became to submit many applications, the more applicants per slot were reported. Still the same number of total applicants and slots, but the numbers got juiced all around.
Yes, it’s insane. I’ve seen listings demanding people have 10 years experience with a technology that’s only 5 years old. It COULD be a trick to make sure you KNOW that it’s only 5 years old, but these “I demand everything” listings are quite popular.
I believe this ties into something important. If all these people are looking for work, WHY DO WE NEED H1-Bs? *SURELY* there’s SOMEONE qualified for each of these positions in the flood of candidates.
-PJ
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