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[–] LemoineFairclough 17 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Why is this image censored? This is a famous tweet and is easy to find: https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As soon as I read it, I thought, who are they protecting. Surely it's not difficult to find whoever created fastAPI.

Took less than a minute with a single word query on my search engine of choice.

I just don't understand the internet sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Some places have rules against non censored names ane handles in image posts I think?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Can you tag that NSFW please

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Sometimes questions like this are tests to see how you'll react when asked to deliver the impossible.

(I mean, it's not in this case, but if that's totally how I'd answer if I'd posted it and was challenged)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I have literally 30 years of Visual Basic 3 experience. Somehow, nobody is impressed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

You can make a gui interface to track someone’s ip address

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I bet you could make the best proggies though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's a red flag that the managers have no idea what they are asking for and have no idea what it is they make. They just know the last person that probably up and quit to go be a in a completely different career was the only person that retained that knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

as a consultant this happens all the time because companies use brokers to find people. the broker only has a vague description of the project to go on, and they are not a domain expert.

i was once turned down by a broker because i "didn't have experience in C". i had listed all the versions of C i've worked with.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Serious question:

Why is their name blurred when they openly stated they are the one that created the product?

A quick search shows exactly who they are?

I’m serially trying to understand if this is an etiquette in the industry, or something? I’m admittedly ignorant when it comes to tech.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

It's a common internet thing that's probably mostly done just out of habit, it doesn't have any purpose like 90% of the time, but is generally the standard just for those few times where it might actually help

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

It's the whole anti brigading thing. But I think if you're dumb enough to post an ass take in public circles, you deserve the heat. Mods just make it a blanket rule to blur out names so they don't have to actually read anything lol

[–] [email protected] 150 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Does it make sense to blur names when they're still relatively easy to decipher, when the project can be found on github and the top committer links to their Twitter account? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 41 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly blurring usernames when the original post was on a public website is completely unnecessary

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Why do we blur names again and still properly link to the source xeet URL?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 77 points 21 hours ago

And it's especially important here because that's the creator of FastAPI...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago

And you could just google the text in the post and find it.

[–] CancerMancer 10 points 21 hours ago

And it's a common enough meme that I've seen around for years, unblurred at that? That ship has sailed.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Shit was out of hand checks post date FIVE YEARS AGO.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago

You need 7+ years of experience with shit being out of hand to make that call.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So he'll have more than five years experience now? Great, he can finally land a job.

[–] jubilationtcornpone 21 points 18 hours ago

Requires 9+ years of experience with FastAPI

[–] [email protected] 24 points 18 hours ago

I love this post.

Really encapsulate the idiocy of some HR environments.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (7 children)

https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830

Sebastián Ramírez

@tiangolo

I saw a job post the other day. 👔

It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. 🤦

I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since > I created that thing. 😅

Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience = skill level". ♻

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Woah, how did you figure out the censored username?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sorcery, I'm sure. Burn Fog0555 as a witch!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, first we gotta see if they weigh the same as @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I feel attacked?

I’m so confused, but yeah, that ais a shitty tactic. Next they’ll bitch about no one being qualified.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

My friend works as a Unix admin and his older coworker, who is paid way more than he is, is essentially useless and always slowing everyone down. Constantly asking basic questions and getting stuck on simple things for a whole day when he doesn’t ask.

Same with driving. I don’t care how long you’ve been doing it if you haven’t put any serious effort into learning and improving after passing your pathetic, weak test 38 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No shame in asking questions

Tech fields are always moving forward, if someone has a question they should ask instead of guess

Further, older entrants with experience in older technologies have value that a company may need that newer entrants may not have really had the opportunity to ever work with. Deprecated technology still runs a lot of systems and companies will drag their feet in moving on because they have these older people working for them that, if a problem comes up they're going to deal with and the company perception is that it's cheaper than updating the entire thing to more modern solutions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Oh I should be clear that this person is absolutely a problem. They’re far less effective at their job, don’t learn for long after the question is asked, and the value they bring to the team is, in some ways, less than a fairly young person. And yet they’re paid more because “experience”.

I have the same thing in my field(architecture and structural engineering firms) as a technologist. People who refuse to learn new skills with the software constantly hold back people willing to put in the effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Make no mistake, the career path has no bearing on this experience. It is ubiquitous in the workforce.

At one point in my life I was pushing carts in a factory, and some times we'd have to prep the material. People refusing to learn any sort of efficient way to prep the material meant they if they walked over to a cart that needed to be prepped I would change my entire workflow to adapt to being down a person

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

I feel like this is almost every company ever. Incompetent people near the top being propped up by lesser paid people doing all the work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Hope you told them that you were the creator

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

The amount of jpeg is respectable for 5 years

[–] [email protected] -4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Who asks for years of experiences of fastAPI? That's so weirdly specific. I doubt this story is real.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It's real, but it's just a rehash of a similar comment that has been shared by other creators.

EG> https://i.redd.it/pasoyucdh0e11.jpg

EG> https://i.redd.it/18qn7jkllr4x.png

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

One of the originals was with Active Directory so this thing is very old.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Job posting requirements are done by a game of telephone where each person down the line is less technical than the previous.

A manager is able to hire a mid-level engineer, which their company defines as 4+ years of experience. An engineer tells the manager what technologies they use, bringing up fastAPI at some point. The manager then gives this list to someone who writes up the job posting who just puts 'requires 4+ years' on every bullet.

Nearly every job posting that asks for more experience than is possible or for something weirdly specific happens this way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Yup, exactly. The job postings aren’t written by the people who do the job, or even know what the job does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, I've seen it. I just went through the whole job hunting thing again, and the main thing employers want (I'm a Data Engineer) is many years of experience using their specific tech stack. 5 years with dbt. 10 years with Snowflake. 6 years with FastAPI... and so on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

I guess there's lots of idiots hiring. We definitely state our specific stack as a bonus, but expecting candidates to be these magical unicorns that know exactly what you need... It's so insane. I much rather hire someone motivated to learn.