[agentgt]

My company makes recruiting software so I talk and deal with many recruiters.

I have to say I severely cringe every time a recruiter says "Rockstar" or "Ninja" (in a job description or ask if I am one). Just imagine using those terms for a talented medical doctor or lawyer. "Microservice" is quickly becoming another new recruiting term that I am beginning to despise. At least "agile" is mostly dead... mostly...

Speaking of which what ever happened to "Scotty", "Rocket scientist" or "Macgyver" (those were the sexy euphemisms back when I started software dev). They were far more apropo.

[sciurus]

Maybe we've just replaced "agile" with "devops".

[SideburnsOfDoom]

I have heard a candidate for a software engineer position talk with straight face about his current workplace's "devops team" and handing off software to them. So maybe it's getting that way.

[jedberg]

If this were reddit this is where I would post a "The force doesn't work that way!" memes.

I can't stand it when people ask about a "devops team". That's not devops then! That just means your sysadmins can code too.

Now, if they are asking about a devops software team, that's a different story.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

Yep. What it means is like "agile" did, it's reaching the "old wine in a new bottle" stage, with less actual hard work of changing the way people work for the better, and more easy slapping a new trendy label on existing practices.

[jghn]

If I see a job ad, hear from a recruiter or whatever which uses either rockstar or ninja, or anything along those lines I immediately stop listening/reading.