Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down
by pas on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:32PM
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Because HR (and IT strategy) nowadays is a farce, managers, decision-makers and the actual organizational units that do hiring rarely have the necessary systemic big-picture knowledge/information, foresight, experience, longitudinal thinking that would allow them to venture out of their preset suboptimal ways.
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Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down
by robswc on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:27PM
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Talking with recruiters again and can agree.
The worst experience so far was for a general full stack role. They sent me a 3 page long PDF of job "requirements" which was a lot of fluff and implicit stuff. I get it... but I think that can be reserved for later. Not the best offer, seemed like they were disorganized in general, etc.
The best experience was for the best TC offer _and_ most relevant position for me... they sent over half a page that didn't waste a single character. Named a few frameworks but they had a crystal clear idea of what they needed. It was amazing, lol.
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down
by dntrkv on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:32PM
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Are you suggesting that requiring React experience for a job where you will use React is not a reasonable ask?
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down
by pas on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:28PM
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It's usually perfectly reasonable, but not really optimal. In this job market requiring React seems worse than hiring someone that is a good frontend developer and has the wits and eagerness to pick up React and whatever tools the team uses, and the job requires.
This has the advantage that when - inevitably - tool1 gets deprecated and tool2 arrives you'll have someone that can adapt and learn, and likely you'll also have someone who can teach.