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by dijksterhuis 28 days ago
on my data engineering masters the course leader told us about a job advert he’d seen one time. the job needed hadoop experience, like 7 years worth.

hadoop had only existed for 5 years at the time, at most.

he figured that someone in HR got the draft for the job advert and just added in the 7 years as a guess based on another role they were hiring for.

edit — number of years required with specific technology is just a hand wavy estimate of how important it is for the role. never treat the numbers as gospel. that was the lesson he was teaching us.