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I once applied for a job where one of the requirements was "minimum 5 to 10 years experience in X". My friend told me to submit a CV saying I have 3 to 6 years experience in X and see if they shortlist me.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago

"Up to 50% off or more!"

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That or when the range is so huge as to be meaningless - a $25k-150k range is completely useless.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Thankfully some states in the US have made this illegal, like Colorado.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I don't usually complain about how people convey what they want, but this one often annoys me a bit - because it's a matter of clarity.

Some might say "well, there's uncertainty on the min/max", but then the higher/lower boundary of the uncertainty doesn't mean anything. That's the case here - it's effectively "minimum 5 years experience", unless you say what would require more experience.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The higher bound is an indication of maximum salary. It's saying "we need at least 5 years experience, but if you have 30, we're paying you like you have 5."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The higher bound is an indication of maximum salary.

Is this something that you know, or that you're assuming?

Note that in both cases it only reinforces what I said about clarity. If the higher bound of the range:

  • is indeed related to the salary - then it is not a requirement, nor should be listed as such
  • is related to something else - are they expecting appliers to assume what the range means?
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I've been hiring people for 10 years. Before it was common to post salaries, this was a good way to not waste people's time interviewing for jobs below their rate.

It's in the requirement section because that's the section we are able to modify on the stupid Excel sheet that the recruiters force us to use.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Talk about apologist conjecture.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I've hired people for a decade. I'm explaining why it's there. I'm not saying it's the right way to do it. Just that this is the way it's done.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most IT job postings done by recruiters are hilariously bad, I scrolled through some and I'm just like "really? That's all you're telling me?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"expert knowledge in NT, FreeBSD, Cisco IOS, Java, C#, Active Directory, Windows Server, Fortinet". Uh huh. Just be an expert at everything, I see.

Then you do the interview and they want like 2 of those things and less experience is fine. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They want the unicorn, they will settle for a horse with a horn taped to its forehead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"...will you accept a whale that thinks it's a unicorn?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A job I'm interviewing for now asked me if I had experience with libvirt, qemu,and KVM.

(For those not in the know, libvirt is a wrapper around qemu, KVM is the name of the technology, so if you have experience with one or both of the first two, you definitely have experience with the last one).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

man would it be nice if I could just get to the fucking interview

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is my first interview after 3 months of applying (not every day, mind you, I've probably applied to like 300 jobs though). I have another one in the next few days as well, for another company.

LinkedIn Premium does actually seem to help, compared to sites like Dice. Good luck out there, it's pretty rough right now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Recruiting is the great leveller. Those who don’t have any skills can at least make it harder for companies to hire people who do have skills.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it means that if you have 10 years of experience you are welcome to apply, but they are only willing to pay commensurate to experience up to 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Probably right, and they don’t need the word minimum at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would have assumed that the minimum could change based on the candidates. So if they get a bunch of 10+ year candidates, any 5 year candidates would just be skipped.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Minimum” in this could refer not to the number of years but to the criteria of eligibility. The sentence might mean “At minimum you have to pass the following eligibility criteria: between 5 and 10 years experience.”

If they then give other criteria that you have to match, that’s nonsense :)

Or I suppose it could mean they’re looking for someone with a minimum of five years, and while they’re not looking for someone with more than 10 years they will consider them. “We want someone with (hard minimum of 5) to (soft maximum of 10) years experience.

Is the job for someone to improve the clarity of their communications by any chance?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I once had a colleague update a shitty webapp we had written to add a message saying "pages loading may take up to a minute or more"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or say "an average of" and give a range.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is just non-math language describing a standard deviation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You need an average of between 6 years.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah it's grammatically incorrect but don't we know what they mean? They would settle for 5 years experience if they had to, but 10 years is very much preferred and if they felt they could require 10 they would.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most neurotypical people don't need everything to be ridigly perfect in definitions. We understand what they meant. I think the objection to this comes from the more autistic type folks. Which isn't to say they are wrong for being different.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And offer them that sweet fresh-out-of-college salary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The thing is that despite my original post I actually agree with you and quietly hate myself for being mildly infuriated by this.

I recommend you read my reply to another poster who is mildly infuriated by incorrect grammar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Seems like a linear algebra question. Are they trying to test you on the optimal region?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I, too, am irritated by this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That means you put it outside of the 70% who have to match.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’d be surprised what kind of applicants you get when you don’t add that as a requirement.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP isn't saying not to add the requirement. They're saying it should read "minimum 5 years", not "minimum 5 to 10 years" which makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But - I wouldn't be surprised actually. What I am surprised with is what kind of applicants I get even with requirements like that (although more precise) in the job ad.

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