Re: [OT] joining the "elite" team

[David B. Stevens]

Typical HR wonk speak.  The clue less ones at work, nothing here for you, move along now ;)

Cheers

Alfie John wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I write to you in response to an add I saw at seek.com.au, "OBJECT 
> ORIENTED PROGRAMMER -MELBOURNE RECENT GRADUATE" - 
> http://it.seek.com.au/users/viewdetails.asp?Action=jobsearch&JobListAction=ViewOneAd&JobSearch=true&AdID=2731247 
> 
> 
> I find this add highly arrogant and highly contradictive.
> 
> You start with "seeking for ...FIRST CLASS HONOURS", however your add is 
> basically searching for a top class, 313373 computer geek. As history 
> shows, even hacker's hackers like RMS and Linus had not-so "first class" 
> grades while in high school AND at uni because they were too busy with 
> selfish delites such as churning through kernel code.
> 
> The next contradictive statement is "She or he must have an INTRINSIC 
> understanding of computing". But later you provide insight to your 
> company with "The applications are an amalgam of complex business 
> processes, maximisation of resources, and require considerable 
> mathematical acumen." In other words, you need MS Excel shitkickers with 
> knowledge in business management with contemporary management skills and 
> not elite coders with sk1llZ. Also, I don't really understand why 
> "indepth knowledge of OOP" is going to help me with optimizing functions 
> with spreadsheets.
> 
> "The company only employs THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST"; followed by "It is 
> very sophisticated." and the even more arrogant "An average person will 
> be unable to keep up with the high intellectual horsepower generated by 
> the members of this elite team.". This tells the reader that you MUST 
> have the worlds best coders under your organization and yet you are 
> "GROWING AND PROFITABLE".
> 
> I must go now with my pittyful programming skills which are no where 
> near the "EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD" skills that your company is looking for, 
> but I smile just to know that this email is going to be forwarded to 
> programmers around the world with a link to your add to show just what 
> an "elite team" you really are!
> 
> int 20h;
> Alfie John
> 
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