Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/zkh9pf/anyo...
I've heard of multiple language and framework designers who failed to score a job when it really should have been a slam dunk. There might be rockstars among the foot soldiers of tech, but virtually none outside of that.
Relatedly, no US Marines have ever defeated a lava monster with a magic sword.
NO PIRATES, ONLY ROBOTS.
Why is "white hat" hacker inherently used to mean "ethical" or "good"? Most normal people wear black hats.
Seriously though, if learning the meaning of two (three if you throw in grey hat) terms is too difficult, never mind the rest of the requisite knowledge to meaningfully participate, you may want to consider an alternate area of study.
Yeah, anything that boils down to "you don't need to know about X, you just need to know that white X is good and black X is bad" is not a great look for technical terminology in the current context.
There are countless words and idioms that will make no sense when you're not familiar with them. You could consider these annoying, or you could consider these the interesting parts of a language.
I for one very much like words with interesting history.
I'm aware that I'm moving the goalposts a little bit, or at least making them more explicit. Sorry? Just trying to why my admittedly subjective stylistic sense is going "Eh, this one is better off replaced by explicit terms".
If you can't figure out how to google white hat, how are you going to figure out what the FHBTYU (made up acronym) is in your tech stack?
There's the easy stuff: "ninja" for example. Nobody, in the year 2023, should be using that word in a job post.
But then there's the hard stuff that really matters. If you want someone who has experience being a "white hat" hacker, that's perfectly alright, but if you want "white people only" well that's obviously bad. If you don't flag the latter you look like a joke, but if you flag every instance of the word "white" then it feels overbearing and like the tool isn't very smart.
I'm pretty sure these will never actually be useful on a superficial word-matching basis. They need to look at broader phrases and context.
And then there's the real problem that even if the tool helps the hiring manager / recruiter sweep their inbuilt biases under the rug to get better applicants, they're still the ones making the hiring decisions.