This entire comment section is a mess of people who apparently don’t understand that companies are just listing out the things they want. If they find someone that meets those requirements, then fucking awesome…otherwise, they will still take people in for interviews that meet a majority of those requirements. You think they’ll really pass on someone that has only 7 years experience in this hyper specific role when they are looking for 10?
Get this all the time in software development, being given “requirements” and most of them are pretty stupid wishlist items.
I constantly argue that that will not get a good outcome if they just call everything is equally a “hard requirement”.
What they want to do is negotiate and start from an unreasonable anchor point. In my case I find it super tiresome because my stance is always the same, make a priority list and we’ll get as far as we can. But escalating and tying us up in meetings to try to argue for stuff you are just using as a negotiating tactic only gets in the way of us doing what we can. We are going to do what fits, and people are not going to work unpaid overtime or holidays just to meet some arbitrary deadline. If it doesn’t fit, well it won’t be long until the next window.
My team has a very long history of ultimately exceeding the hopes of the folks asking for stuff and yet they continue to try to get us to commit to stuff we never will.
Point is neurodivergent take things more literally. That means the job requirements along with the some possible difficulty in guessing what an interviewer wants when they ask a question. A “normal” person would probably be fine with creatively arranging a resume to look like it matches the job requirements, schmoozing and making small talk with an interviewer, and the follow up courtesy emails. A person say who is ASD/ADHD could find the interactions difficult, especially schmoozing/small talk, and while telling “lies” isn’t foreign at all to non-normative people, being told you kinda have to “lie” on a job app and then creatively explain that lie is gonna be problematic.
Even better I’ve had an interview for a company that listed a insane list of skills, spanning front-end to backend over 3 different tech stacks… Turns out your application gets sorted into very specific teams by HR, with a much more limited tech stack. They had a whole online platform for testing before I even spoke to a real human…
Being ‘locked’ into a limited tech stack wasn’t what I was looking for at the time, so all in all a huge waste of time.
This entire comment section is a mess of people who apparently don’t understand that companies are just listing out the things they want. If they find someone that meets those requirements, then fucking awesome…otherwise, they will still take people in for interviews that meet a majority of those requirements. You think they’ll really pass on someone that has only 7 years experience in this hyper specific role when they are looking for 10?
You don’t have to meet every single requirement.
I think the issue is that it’s called a **requirement** and not an “appreciated characteristic”
Get this all the time in software development, being given “requirements” and most of them are pretty stupid wishlist items.
I constantly argue that that will not get a good outcome if they just call everything is equally a “hard requirement”.
What they want to do is negotiate and start from an unreasonable anchor point. In my case I find it super tiresome because my stance is always the same, make a priority list and we’ll get as far as we can. But escalating and tying us up in meetings to try to argue for stuff you are just using as a negotiating tactic only gets in the way of us doing what we can. We are going to do what fits, and people are not going to work unpaid overtime or holidays just to meet some arbitrary deadline. If it doesn’t fit, well it won’t be long until the next window.
My team has a very long history of ultimately exceeding the hopes of the folks asking for stuff and yet they continue to try to get us to commit to stuff we never will.
The post has “as a neurodivergent person” right in the first line. Who do you think is in the comments?
Point is neurodivergent take things more literally. That means the job requirements along with the some possible difficulty in guessing what an interviewer wants when they ask a question. A “normal” person would probably be fine with creatively arranging a resume to look like it matches the job requirements, schmoozing and making small talk with an interviewer, and the follow up courtesy emails. A person say who is ASD/ADHD could find the interactions difficult, especially schmoozing/small talk, and while telling “lies” isn’t foreign at all to non-normative people, being told you kinda have to “lie” on a job app and then creatively explain that lie is gonna be problematic.
Even better I’ve had an interview for a company that listed a insane list of skills, spanning front-end to backend over 3 different tech stacks… Turns out your application gets sorted into very specific teams by HR, with a much more limited tech stack. They had a whole online platform for testing before I even spoke to a real human…
Being ‘locked’ into a limited tech stack wasn’t what I was looking for at the time, so all in all a huge waste of time.
That’s not what requirement means
Literally means figuratively, nothing matters.