Have deep experience in 3 different job fields and, in 2 years, learn 5 languages.
“We want a senior developer at junior pay.”
"Our rockstar developer quit, because they had to fulfill too many roles and you get to be their replacement
…at junior pay."
Be familiar with NoSql: like Mysql, postgreSQL, SequelSqlSQL, and Memdb.
Be fluent in 5 programming languages, 3 spoken languages, and be able to read Linear A, B, and C.
Reminds me of when I was first out of school, and seeing jobs for C#.NET that needed 5 years of experience back when the entire platform was 3 years old.
Be familiar with NoSql: like Mysql, postgreSQL, SequelSqlSQL, and Memdb.
well, the definition of “NoSQL” was changed to stand for “Not Only SQL” some while back because of how many nosql DBs started incorporating SQL (and how many SQL RDBMS started adding nosql features)
NoSQL was only ever a marketing term. Things like Mongo are what’s been known as KVSes (Key-Value Stores). Mongo basically just rode a hype wave into extremely large amounts of funding but predating it by at least a decade was libmemcached, which lacks the “relational light” functionality that Mongo added but is a more resilient version of the core concept.
Technologies like Redis actually ended up adding significant innovation but they ended up mostly eschewing the NoSQL term anyway.
You must know double Java.
Most people don’t realise this but it says “what we’re looking for” not “our minimum requirements”. And even when they do say they are minimum requirements, they aren’t really.
Whoever gets this job is absolutely not going to have all this. You can still apply.
That said it doesn’t seem totally unreasonable. I have used all those languages and have at least medium understanding of them (haven’t written any Go or Java for a while).
I’ve used MySQL and Postgresql, and Mongo mercifully briefly.
I’ve used some of the AWS stuff. Enough to bullshit about the rest.
I haven’t ever really designed a fault tolerant scalable system but I could definitely bullshit about it.
You don’t need to get 100%.
Bullshit rarely passes technical interviews at places with low turnover.
I’ve done some cloud stuff on AWS and GCP and thought I knew enough to pass interviews, then they started asking me about stuff I hadn’t even heard of anywhere I’d worked.
Started a new job 3 months ago, 80% of our stack/frameworks are technologies I’ve never heard of before. Tekton, Firestore, Cypress, 42Crunch, Conformance, Cloud Functions (I think that’s just GCP Lambda), some front end testing frameworks I don’t know (more of a backend guy though I know raw JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS really well from back in the day), Hoppscotch instead of Postman for some reason… and other stuff I’m forgetting now.
I thought because I’d written applications that ran in a cloud environment and understood Jenkins, I was all set. Nope. 28 years I’ve been doing this and I still feel like a newbie outside of the Java web services ecosystem. And it doesn’t matter how good I am in that arena because the code is shit almost beyond repair. Half of our tools are flat out being lied to. Our endpoints are written to detect our testing frameworks and just respond with 200 and a blank payload. Our Swagger is useless because everything returns Result<?> so you can’t see the DTOs because 42Crunch gives like 600+ errors because of how garbage the API is written…
Man, I drifted there. Point is, you need to know enough to get the job in order to bullshit your way into it.
My secret? I’m in a high turnover position in the Midwest market (not competing with the glut of tech workers in major hubs, nor drawing their kind of pay) and the technical interview was pretty laughable. Now I have to try to prove myself and get hired in as a full employee rather than contractor. Then I’ll have some job security and maybe a path forward that isn’t just keep taking Sr. Dev, Team Lead contracts.
Yeah AWS has so many solutions, when quizzed about a tool I haven’t used, I honestly say “can you describe it’s use? I’ve built a lot in AWS/gcp/azure but haven’t used that tool. I’ll describe how I’d do it with tools I’m familiar with”. Normally goes over well.
For example, if they really wanted amplify experience for some reason, and I would instead describe how I’d set things up with ec2 / ecs / fargate, etc.
Salary: $65k/yr
I’m currently looking for work in this area and I have seen very similar postings, 3 years experience and for £25000 to £29000.
It’s bloody mental, and they list it as junior roles and then list everything.
