Tech job requirements in 2023

Interview with tech job seeker in 2023

How to get a tech job in 2023 interview with Pete Liebering - aired on © The Tech Job.

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[sprytnychomik]

At least WinRAR license is not required.

[Finkelfunk]

Reminds me of a tweet by the developer of FastAPI:

"I saw a job post the other day. It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI.

I couldn't apply since it's only been 1.5 years since I created that thing."

[joeec]

"They're looking for a whole startup" best description ever for this kind of requirements.

[kehan]

By "entry-level" they don't mean "entry-level experience", they probably mean "entry-level salary"

[benderbg]

I need to inform you that by the time you watched this video 3 new JS frameworks and 6 libraries emerged and are now required skills in your portfolio.

[KilgoreTroutAsf]

You know the company has a solid engineering team when its stack is built on 20+ different technologies.

[chunye]

Junior Developer... "15 years of experience..." That pretty much nails it.

[nickchapsas]

"5+ Years experience in an Azure environment...OK person must be dead inside" HAHAHAHA

[microcolonel]

Trust me, even if you *meet or exceed all of the listed requirements* they won't even email you to reject you.

[ericmyrs]

The reason they're asking for Swift twice, is that they require both the programming language and experience with the SWIFT financial services network.

[ronondex]

"They are lookign for a whole startup" way to many job requirements in a nutshell.

[spazmaster]

I remember a job I saw online that required 10+ years of C++, AI, and javascript.

Buddy, this is a junior firmware engineer job for embedded systems.

[mauricio-poppe]

I lost it at “vanilla JavaScript, chocolate JavaScript” 😂😂😂😂😂 🍫🍫

[fleity]

Again the fact that none of these seem unrealistic is hilarious and soul crushing at the same time.

[emilfilipov]

I'm a data scientist by profession. Or at least I was. I started working in the field 6 years ago when requirements for DS positions were sane.
Now it's like:
- Extensive Experience with Python and one or more low level languages - how do they check that experience? you live code an arbitrarily stupid algorithm which nobody ever uses for absolutely nothing except writing scientific papers.
- Extensive Experience with SQL AND DB administration (but it has to be the exact one they use, or you are out)
- Extensive Experience with GCP, Azure or AWS (but when it comes down to it, they will reject you for not having used the platform they work on)
- Extensive Experience with Kubernetes, Docker - launching, configuring and administering and troubleshooting instances
- Extensive Experience with CI/CD with 'X'
- Extensive Experience with Tableau
- Experience with classical Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks nobody except Fortune 100 companies have the money to afford to use (btw, classical ML doesn't matter to the company as they do everything with neural networks, but they will ask you questions about everything else that they don't use)
- Experience with Reinforcement Learning
- Extensive Experience with Kafka, Hadoop, Spark (also list all other Apache products)
EDIT... I forgot JIRA and microservices!!!
- Experience using FastAPI
- Experience with Git, JIRA and all the other arbitrarily useful software. (git is awesome)
Bonus points for:
- JS (any of the 75, 000)
- Experience with mentoring and leading a team (even though this is a junior position)

AND BY THE WAY... when you get to the technical interview, get ready for some dumb**s questions that have nothing to do with the job described or the requirements.

The labour market is so f**king stupid right now...

[CrizzyEyes]

"You have 15 years of experience in HTML and CSS? You're hired!"
"Thanks! Great to be on board."
"You'll be a great help with our new website written in HTML5"
"Huh? There's a 5th one? I never had to use that 15 years ago!"

[julianosvonskingrad]

I am a scientist who started programming years ago. I sent my CV to a company that was looking for a) scientists with b) no experience in programming to train them. I thought "Hey, easy, I am a scientist BUT I already have knowledge in this field. They'll take me instantly!" Yeah well ... they asked me 200 high-end questions about programming languages I haven't even used at that time. They told me weeks later they are not interested. I wonder how they ever managed to find employees.

[GSBarlev]

With how unrealistic these job postings have gotten, the real best way to get a job in the industry is to already have one and get the attention of a recruiter or a head-hunter.

I'm a data scientist. I became a data scientist after reading an article about how it was the "hot new career" and going to my very first boss and asking him if I could change my title.

Me: "Do you care if I start calling myself a data scientist?"
Him: "Do I have to pay you anything mkre?"
Me: "Nope!"
Him: "Go for it."

Ten years and a job change (that I was recruited for) later and I'm a senior data scientist with ten years of experience. 🤷‍♂️

[lloydatkinson]

"time-pressed toxic agile environment", is there any other type of agile environment?

[ethanharmon]

as someone who has sent in 30+ applications in the past month and only gotten 1 phone call (only because I have a former boss at that company and he recommended me), this is incredibly painful and accurate.