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Re:Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions by ye_olde_gamer on Thursday September 23, 2021 @03:43PM (#28634245)
Only if you limit yourself to a particular kind of company, I think? I've worked as a dev for decades, but not for proper, actual tech companies... mostly a mixture of small biz and nonprofits. No two orgs were alike, even though my job at each one was very similar.
Re:Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions by xboxnolifes on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:13PM (#28635486)
I didn't say the jobs were alike, I said the job listings were alike.
Re:Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions by ye_olde_gamer on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:12PM (#28636250)
Not the ones I've applied to. If a company can't even tell you about itself without hyperbole, why bother?
Re:Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions by cutemonster on Saturday September 25, 2021 @07:33AM (#28652288)
Because they might pay lots of money and the coworkers can be nice and talented (they didn't write the job ad) among other things