Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by toomanybeersies on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:18PM (#15975536)

From experience, companies won't hire you if you express a strong distaste for their software stack.

I learned this after I told the interviewer that I thought that PHP was a crap language, when interviewing for a PHP developer position.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by hrktb on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:57PM (#15976559)

Honestly that doesn’t seem a bad decision. You will be eating PHP day in day out. It would be a bad choice for the company if they had candidates who otherwise don’t care that much about PHP’s problems, and a disservice to you if you could otherwise find equivalent jobs in a language you like better.

Working in a PHP shop, nobody would care to shit on PHP during an interview. We know the shortcommings, it just doesn’t really matter that much.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by toomanybeersies on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:14AM (#15977023)

I'm definitely not criticising them for their decision. I honestly probably wouldn't've liked working with PHP all day long, especially since the job would've been working with quite a lot of legacy code.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by tracker1 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:52PM (#15975694)

I tend to feel the same wrt Java, not so much the language, but the tooling around the language feels like such a pain. I always hated PHP. I've worked with them both though.

I happen to like the one language to rule them all (JS).

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