{"id":41091,"date":"2020-07-13T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=b5f5920067a8c372558a764cb77fc5a4"},"modified":"2020-07-13T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:09:07","slug":"ibm-job-ad-calls-for-12-years-of-experience-with-six-year-old-kubernetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-job-ad-calls-for-12-years-of-experience-with-six-year-old-kubernetes\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM job ad calls for 12-years of experience with six-year-old Kubernetes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span>
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13 Jul, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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IBM\u00a0has put out a job advert calling for a candidate with over 12-years of experience with Kubernetes administration and management.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It looks like a fairly straight forward ad,\u00a0except for the fact that\u00a0Kubernetes<\/a>\u00a0has only been a thing for the last six years.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0advertisement<\/a>, which is still live, calls for a “minimum” of 12 years experience in Kubernetes, including\u00a0“hands-on” experience setting up Kubernetes platforms, deploying\u00a0microservices<\/a>\u00a0and other web applications and managing secure secrets along with container orchestration.<\/p>\n

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\nIt requires someone to have earned at least six years experience before the first GitHub post about the project was made on 7 June 2014.<\/p>\n

As the Twitter account ‘Really Bad Job Ads<\/a>‘ shows, it’s very common to make typos or strange syntactical errors in job ads, but nothing on its feed comes close to a giant tech company getting in a muddle over new technology.<\/p>\n

In this regard, IBM is not alone, as developer Sebasti\u00e1n Ram\u00edrez pointed out on Twitter. He applied for a role that asked for over four years of experience using FastAPIs, but Ram\u00edrez knew all too well at the time that no one could have more than one and a half years experience of it because he created it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This also goes the other way with job seekers sometimes getting it wrong. Replying to Ram\u00edrez, researcher\u00a0Lynn Boyden<\/a>\u00a0recalled an applicant in 2012 that said they had over 17-years of experience with web design.<\/p>\n

“We interviewed a 28-year-old designer in 2012 who told us he had 17-years experience designing websites. I said, ‘Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t have 17 years experience designing websites’. ‘Who’s Tim Berners-Lee?’ he asked. So yeah.”<\/p>\n

Again, this goes the other way as further down the replies, App designer\u00a0Jens Ravens<\/a>\u00a0explained that he was once told he didn’t have enough experience with a certain iOS library during an interview, despite the fact he developed it. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n

13 Jul, 2020 <\/p>\n

IBM\u00a0has put out a job advert calling for a candidate with over 12-years of experience with Kubernetes administration and management.\u00a0
\nIt looks like a fairly straight forward ad,\u00a0except for the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41092,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41091\/revisions\/41092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}