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Agree. I keep seeing job postings requiring (combined roles):

* Must do backend

* Must do frontend

* Must do devops

* Must do database schemas like a wizard

* Must know all of AWS inside and out

* Do you like customer support? You'll be doing customer support.

* You'll be doing marketing disguised as engineering blog posts.

Completely unrealistic.

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Dunno about startups, where it probably is just "we're going to overwork you", but in big companies a posting like this is often a "hire Bob" situation -- Bob worked at the company for many years, picked up a bunch of different skills and was working on different projects. Bob leaves. They only have the one opening to bring someone on, so they want to hire someone exactly like Bob, and just throw up a job posting with all of Bob's skills.

Or, renew someone's work visa. Requirements are that such a job is made publicly available... but no outside hires are made, they just use it to renew the existing engineer's visa. Seen this twice (well, applied for two positions and found out this was the case why I wasn't considered).

As broken as the visa system here is, I don't believe any short term visa (one that would need to be renewed) requires a job posting, for initial or renewal. They're based on other factors, and generally just require an application and for the candidate to be eligible. The only time a job posting had to be created for me was for PERM, for the green card process.

When I see DevOps called out I know that they expect 50% more work for free out of employees. Companies of course will deny it and imply that you're only working that much more as you are too stupid to write code without bugs and not doing enough automation. I guess we will see if Etsy's site changes much over the next year (maybe they have been doing that for a while now) or if it remains stagnant as no one wants to change anything.

When I see the following terms, I usually move on: Guru, Ninja, Wizard, Rockstar.

I am none of these.

Agree. Nor do I want to associate with people who think they are.

This right here.

And in the interview you need to reverse a binary tree.

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