> This time round, employers had all kinds of weird esoteric requirements which made no sense.
I have often seen some jobs that sounded like a directory level manager mixed with principal engineer mixed with principal scientist all into one job with the title "senior engineer". It's just bewildering who these people are that they're looking for with such requirements that aren't even in the "nice to have" category.
> It all seems kind of conspiratorial if you ask me.
I agree that something seems very, very strange in this market in the past year or two. What it is, I don't know, but there is so much that doesn't make sense. It really makes me question if anyone really knows what's going on, in the sense that there are just a ton of companies out there that are near incompetent. Whatever is causing it, I think it's actually very bad for the U.S. economy. It seems like no one wants to do anything that's off the so-called rails. No risk. Do whatever everyone else is doing. Only find people who have no want to do anything except what you're already doing.
> It seems like no one wants to do anything that's off the so-called rails. No risk. Do whatever everyone else is doing.
Fundamentally that's what high interest rates will do, there's no need to take risk and there are no cheap loans to spend on moonshots that might not go anywhere.
I have long maintained that real knowledge is a well guarded secret.
<< in the sense that there are just a ton of companies out there that are near incompetent.
I want to say no, but I am old enough now to be able to compare to some of the previous positions and I can't help but wonder how much of all this is just posturing and bluffing ( fake it till you make it kinda deal ). I accept it was always there to an extent, but the current project I am a part of makes me question a lot.
I have often seen some jobs that sounded like a directory level manager mixed with principal engineer mixed with principal scientist all into one job with the title "senior engineer". It's just bewildering who these people are that they're looking for with such requirements that aren't even in the "nice to have" category.
> It all seems kind of conspiratorial if you ask me.
I agree that something seems very, very strange in this market in the past year or two. What it is, I don't know, but there is so much that doesn't make sense. It really makes me question if anyone really knows what's going on, in the sense that there are just a ton of companies out there that are near incompetent. Whatever is causing it, I think it's actually very bad for the U.S. economy. It seems like no one wants to do anything that's off the so-called rails. No risk. Do whatever everyone else is doing. Only find people who have no want to do anything except what you're already doing.