[the_only_law]

> I think their main problem hiring is that they are looking for perfect candidates.

I’ve noticed this with government and government adjacent stuff: they are choosing beggars.

The salaries they offer tend to cap well below what you can make in the private field, often are in weird areas and don’t offer relocation, and just seem terribly bureaucratic when it comes to advancement.

And yet, it seems they won’t hire you if you don’t hit their checklist to a T. I applied for a NOAA job, that wasn’t too crazy, and for the most part, was a pretty good fit for my resume. However, the application had a checkbox question along the lines of “have you ever written software for [hyper specific domain]”. I answered no and was unsurprisingly rejected. By the way, this wasn’t some wild scientific computing project, it was basically a job writing CRUD software for something that sounded interesting to me.

I really wonder how some roles get filled, I’ve seen some ridiculous asks.