Under "common behaviours of our ideal candidate" in the HR doc posted:
> 8. Just a nice dude
It seems obvious to me that this is outright illegal gender discrimination, am I wrong?
> 8. Just a nice dude
It seems obvious to me that this is outright illegal gender discrimination, am I wrong?
> 2. Under 30 years old
Is obviously age discrimination as well. Unlike some people, I'm under no illusions that tech is non-discriminatory, but it's still surprising and disappointing to see it stated so plainly on a job description.
These people are idiots for leaving this document online now that they've been caught. I don't know the specifics of UK labour laws, but in the US its mere existence would be grounds for a lawsuit.
I'm British, and the fact that we only got around to this in 2006 seems to me to be fairly shameful.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Equality_(Age)_Regul...
Trying to obtain "testimonials of previous customers" would almost certainly get me fired and sounds like a major breach of professional etiquette but then again this is a different culture, maybe that kind of thing is normal over there. Along with providing dumps of my social media presence.
Not to trash talk the concept of the startup excessively, but why do they need a guy with 20+ years of experience and a full service laundry list to do what little they're trying to do, and unless I was the dumbest 20+ year veteran out there its not really possible to summarize my entire life experience in a 30 second video, at least to any useful to them extent. Slap a video on youtube and send em a link doesn't take a 20 year industry veteran although I could do it if I needed to pay the mortgage. Also, I've seen longer gravestone epitaphs than whats provided.
On the bright side they didn't ask for sexual orientation, marital status, religious beliefs, or demand an interpretive dance portraying the quicksort algorithm, although who knows what goes on at the interview.
So they're looking for someone simultaneously deeper than the Marianas Trench and shallower than a rain puddle. Good luck with that.
Hah, well-put. Anyone know what the apology and the tweet before it was? Both links are dead now.
Young employees are much easier to overwork and underpay. Some 20-somethings even throw years of their personal lives away when the right carrot is dangled in their face.
Quickly Googling seems to indicate that it's not set in stone, at least.
While you might refer to a mixed-gendered group as "dudes" it seems odd to refer to a single female as a "dude"
That said, I agree it's not appropriate for a job req and understand why it turns women off from applying.
When you read the rest of the document it's clear the 'job definition' has been done by someone whose not a HR professional. It's probably a tech or developer whose inexperienced. The only thing I'll say in defense of it is that this isn't as unusual as you might expect - even if they don't write it a lot of people probably use heuristics like this, unfortunately!
No need to require HR skills when basic English proficiency is lacking. What does "work in a team of all current developers" even means? Don't get me started on "Conscientious and committed to a certain task where they decided to commit themselves", that's positively Shakespearian. Was this written by a real person using Google Translate, or by a bot?
Oh, and what the hell is a "MagicPitch"?