[Baypiggies] [JOB] Software Engineer, Cloud Fabric Team, Nimbula Inc.

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Jul 2 05:38:32 CEST 2010


On Thu, Jul 01, 2010, Jeff Enderwick wrote:
>
> Alex,
> 
> My guess is that the CS degree "must" was their way of saying that
> they're looking for a person who is educated w/r/t core CS topics. I'm
> making this guess based on the preceding line about not needing a
> "tools/sysadmin engineer". Maybe w/out the CS degree requirement
> stated, they get a flood of that.

Alex's point was that they are phrasing themselves incorrectly; if they
can't write a proper spec for a job ad, how can they write correct code?

It would be simple to change the job ad to say "CS degree or equivalent
knowledge".
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