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If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
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If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
"We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer"
No you're not. Those are mutually exclusive concepts.
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Reminds me what a friend of mine told me about an opportunity she'd had to get hired by Google (she didn't apply but regretted it and decided to do so at next occasion). Google's pretty much the dream employer for programmers around here, judging from what I pick up from my buddies. Her opinion on sex parity policy was, she knows it's unjust to get hired because she's the girl in a group of applicants, but she can't complain about the benefits.
I can't really blame anyone for pouncing on that at the moment. There are literally no entry-level jobs -- programming or otherwise -- that aren't asking for gobs of experience. If you have a way in around that, you pretty much have to take it.
Here's another gem.
"2 + experience with professional software development. We are looking for all ranges of experience. "
These are also mutually exclusive concepts. You'd think IBM would be more familiar with details of language and set theory.
I wonder if someone just didn't program those two to be mutually exclusive in some sort of checkbox list.
No, that's in the hand-typed section.
It's kind of silly, because rather few of these positions have particularly stringent minimum requirements otherwise. They basically outline stuff any CS student would have by the beginning of senior year, then tack on 3+ years experience at the very end because they want to hire each other's layoffs.
Actually, the biggest offenders for requiring scads of obscure things you'll never see outside a corporate environment are typically the "entry-level" positions advertised to new grads. On at least one occasion I've seen an entry-level position that required experience with the company's own homebrew software.
Only if all groups have equal chances of getting hired without affirmative action policies in place.
I'm just facepalming at the wording. Regardless of one's opinions on whether it's a good idea or not (mostly I just feel like it's an irritating bandaid measure so politicians can feel good while continuing to largely ignore appalling differences in available quality of education that cause the problem in the first place), it's still an artificial hiring preference that often takes precedence over qualifications and thus not equal.