mattydorey

Wow. This was our PR firm. They took the liberty of getting involved in the discussion.

Sorry, this is totally inappropriate and lame.

That's why it says "Things we’re looking for in terms of more specific skill-sets and experience:" and not "We REQUIRE you to have 8 years experience for each one of these bullets:".

That would obviously be absurd.

Well, we've managed to build a large and talented dev team with this approach thus far. I guess once we start having difficulty finding capable devs we'll have to lower the bar. Sigh.

Thanks all, this is good feedback. The intent behind this was to innovate in this area by making the posting stick out so that the posting gets more visibility but also helps weed out candidates. We are looking for one person and we want to set the bar high for this position.

I'm surprised that each requirement/attribute was taken so literally, but I can see how people could view it like that after reading it again.

To be honest, if we could find someone that met most of this criteria I think we would be very happy. I wouldn't say they need 8 years of experience in each area, however my hope is that they would have worked with these technologies over the last period of time in varying capacities.

It will be very interesting to see how people take this and who applies. Maybe I'll post the results up so people can see after the search.

Thanks for the candid feedback.

Matt