This post is spot on, I work in big data. I get ask to change job on a weekly basis. When you tell them the salary, they usually say it's not possible withn a olot of dumb excuses, even though the job description will list every big data technologies in existence plus all the cloud vendor.
They want a senior with experience but with an associate Eng. salary bracket. They'll tell you they can't find anyone though. Also what I've seen, if you don't check one box in your past experience. They don't want to take a chance. I think any employes should consider the ccandidata learn some of his skills, most tech workers are usually looking for another challenge because they want to learn something new.
The US job market is filled with employer with impossible criteria to meet. Sad state of affairs.
Yeah big data seems to be a place where this absurdity is amplified. Everyone wants the same small handful of people with those qualifications and everyone is like 10x the number of people... and none of them want to budge on what they offer / will take.
In the meantime plenty of good folks out there willing to get into it, but naw they won't take them.
A more subtle problem, besides employers not willing to pay with money, is that, more often than not, they can't actually "pay" with interesting work (or experience or growth or something similar).
Complaining about companies thinking (or just saying) they have "big data" when all they have is moderately-sized data is more common on HN now. What's more, even the very low bar of "fits in main memory" increases rapidly enough that "big" from a couple years ago might not be any more.
This is a typical Chicago/Illinois gimmick again
The state and the city is so corrupted, another attempt to distract from the other bull-shit they are trying to pull.
The word is, only the mayor and the governor are interested in an express train. Everyone else is happy with the blue-line.
Chicago is so parallized trying to make any decsion. I am ready to bet, the deal will fall aprat during the negocaitions
This is a great comment and so true, I switch career after a couple of years on the of market and became a software engineer around 33 yrs old. For my first gig, I add to settle for a job similar to what I did before my master's degree because everyone was asking 5 yrs of experience for almost every technology in there job description which i did not have obviously since I just graduated.
I discovered the hard way that not a lot of employers are ready to let you learn on the job.
Before my SE master's, I always coded with VBA and microsoft related technologies. I was always trying to automate my business processes to be more efficient and free my time to do the real job of a business analyst analyse. When I graduated and wanted to make the leap to SE. I discovered that I was treated like if I was a junior even though I ahd been on the job market for 10 yrs. The interesting part is that most of the time I would get the interview because HR was impressed with my resume and all my business experience but when I would talk to the engineers even though I always had a big disclaimer that most of my experience coding was from school but that I was bringing other very good qualities that would help me thrive in a technology environment. The interviewers were looking down on me like I was an idiot. Makes the whole process tedious and idiotic.
The good news is I finally have an employer who did not treat me like a junior and allowed me to grow in to my current role. This employer always finds people to come to work for there organisation. I have noticed that most of the recent hire did not meet all the technology requirements but they all had a passion for technology and getting the job done with whatever they were bringing in there tool box. If more employers would recruit like that, we would not always hear them complained that they can never find good candidates.
I agree, corporate recruitment is broken and I hate when I feel I need to beg for a job in an interview. Hopefully, in the future companies who make it are the ones who finally figured out that they are the one needing resources not the way around.
Great article, unreasonable demands are often tough to debunk. I agree with the fact is that often, the requirement needs has to asked differently. That would often prompt the developer to try to meet the requirement as close as possible instead of just saying no.
