Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias

Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by pgwhalen on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:04PM (#15462380)

I’d love to work on a tech stack that can be mastered in six months, with just as much understanding as someone who has been around it for five years.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by TeMPOraL on Friday October 13, 2017 @06:54AM (#15464529)

An experienced developer won't need that amount of understanding to do 99% of the tasks at work, and for the remaining 1% there is documentation (right?). And if that's all your homebrewn stack, something is very wrong there.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by pilsetnieks on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:29PM (#15462485)

There are very few companies that have a completely unique tech stack that couldn't have been encountered anywhere else.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by smcdow on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:42PM (#15477896)

Depends on how similar the domains are. Stacks are vastly different in companies working in disparate domains -- I've worked as a software engineer in C4ISR, gaming, EDA, oil & gas, HFT, remote sensing, consumer electronics, and more. The stacks couldn't be more different & foreign from each other. Like living in different universes. Six months to learn all the moving parts is about right.

(I can't imagine a career in only one domain; how boring would that be? Hopefully will be getting a new job in HPC soon.)

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