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"13+ years of programming experience"? For a theater company website?

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I think the idea is that: non-developers have a hard time interviewing for developers. We use such an odd skillset that it's hard for other people to test it. So, in place of a good interview process & testing, they require a lot of years of experience.

They'll probably get a below-average coder with a lot of experience. Which is a decent & low-risk option for them. After all, they're just managing a theatre website.

^ this

13+ years of programming experience with C#, AJAX, JAVASCRIPT, XML, XSL, HTML, DHTML, CSS, SSP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server technologies, PHP, MySQL, and other open source technologies

So that takes us back to 1998. Where was C# in 1998? Hell, even AJAX was created in 1999 (according to Wikipedia).

I'm sure they mean 13 years of experience in general programming, but I hate the way people word these job postings.

Don't forget "other open source technologies", which shall remain a mystery. Try to comply with that one.

In the trade we call this a typing mistake, ment to be a 3 or a 1.

Ohhh, yeah, or even "1-3"?

Insiders often use the slang word "typo."

I always wondered about this word, I never really hear it, is it an Americanism (UK here) or am I sheltered?

I would suspect as much, but given the wide array of technologies that they lump into tha one line, nevermind the requirement to be skilled in IT infrastructure, e-commerce, 4-5 yrs in web development, CMS maintenence, and production of content for the web...It seems as likely they would expect someone who is competent in all of that to have worked at least a dozen years in the business

Only superficially related, but there are typos in this parent post and its parent, which makes the grandparent's point by example.

In case adjustments are made:

grandparent: "mistake, me[a]nt to be"

parent: "into tha[t] one line"

I agree, but I feel like I have seen too many job postings where the HR person posting just decided to tack on extra years for a requirement. I understand that they are looking for the best person they can possibly get for a position, but it is entertaining when the added years pre-date the technology's release.

I suspect the salary is likely to disappoint too. Good, cheap, willing to do your dull CMS job, pick two

Yup... typing msitake. 1-3+ years

How the heck did this make the front page of HN?!

*mistake

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