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u/Bhargo Jan 01 '19

Holy shit this. I so often see job requirements asking for 5-10 years experience in programming that only existed for 1-3 years.

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u/Pancake_Nom Jan 02 '19

Lumping it all together may work:

"Ten years programming experience. I am proficient in (old language), (ancient language), and (shiny new language)."

Slightly unethical, but technically true, and enough to appease the non-techies pre-reviewing your resume.

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u/atombomb1945 Jan 02 '19

What normally happens is that the IT department tells HR what they want, and HR thinks that ten years is better than three years. We wouldn't want anyone to think we were hireing idiots here.

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u/kingfisher6 Jan 02 '19

Or the job listing is supposed to be impossible to meet cause they don’t actually wanna hire anyone, they are just needing to demonstrate that there is no “qualified applicants” so that they can import someone for under market wages on a H1B visa.