Much more specific

Posted Jun 9, 2013 18:26 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Diversity and recruiting developers by giraffedata
Parent article: Diversity and recruiting developers

Do you really want to exclude an applicant because he hasn't programmed anything in Ruby yet?

That is nothing; usually requirements are much more specific than that. Some real-world examples taken from a fairly technical site, Stackoverflow Careers:

Experience designing and managing DNS, DHCP
Expertise in Location Framework / MapKIT
Experience working in an XP/Agile environment a big plus
Expert in CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, HTML5, RSS, jQuery

These offers are not from particularly clueless or ossified companies but trendy Internet startups. If an engineer cannot learn any of these things in a few days on the job, or with minimal training, then I would not consider them as good candidates for anything.

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Much more specific

Posted Jun 9, 2013 20:50 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

It's actually not really extreme. They are searching for a candidate with the experience of location-specific services, of which DNS is a major example. On top of that they also want the regular Web page design experience.

Much more specific

Posted Jun 9, 2013 21:03 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (1 responses)

Note that each line is from a different job offer. These are from the clueful end of the spectrum. I have seen requests for specific versions of Java, WebSphere Application Server or Red Hat Linux, and they were not joking or (to my knowledge) posting an offer with a preassigned candidate. I can post real examples but they are too depressing. Once I was asked at an interview if I did know "HTLM" (sic). Human resources can be a dark place.

Much more specific

Posted Jun 9, 2013 22:45 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

Human resources can be a dark place.

Usually this comes out when they ask for five years' worth of experience with some technology that has only been around for two years.