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Comment by adjkant | Hacker News Reader

Over 90% senior positions is very interesting to me.

I'm pretty sure this is a result of non-technical people calling the shots on what roles they're hiring for.

  ROLE: Sr. Full Stack Engineer Level 5
  MUST HAVE:
  10+ YEARS JAVASCRIPT EXPERIENCE
  4+ YEARS JSON EXPERIENCE
  7+ YEARS PERL ON RAILS EXPERIENCE
  Linux
  Sketch / Adobe Photoshop / InVision
  PhD in Machine Learning

And not to soapbox here too much but but sadly I actually have come across a job ad demanding "4+ years JSON experience"

Don't you love it when companies signal that you really probably shouldn't work there

I wouldn't count out a company based solely on a poorly-written job description. Those are often put together by less-technical recruiters or the HR department. And yeah, maybe the team that's hiring should be more involved in the actual job posting, but the whole hiring process is such a huge PITA and time-suck that they're too happy to hand off whatever part they can.

> 7+ YEARS PERL ON RAILS EXPERIENCE

What's "Perl on Rails"? Isn't it supposed to be "Ruby on Rails"?

"Job posts not specifying a seniority level are excluded."

13824 senior positions / 120548 total openings = 11.5% senior. If we assume "senior" only applies to "dev" and "engineer it becomes 13824/(15484+9723) = 54.8%. Somewhere between those sounds right for ratio of senior position ads I've seen.

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