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joblint

Test tech job posts for issues with sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails.

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Test tech job posts for issues with sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	9	1	8
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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chaps·Mar 13, 2023

I think this is the main ruleset: https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule... There's such a striking lack of racist/homophobic rules that I'm almost willing to believe it's a satire project. Edit: this got me -2: "We provide seeds to local farming communities to ensure they always have the green fields they need to supply their local markets."

In Joblint – Test tech job posts for issues

LorenzA·Mar 13, 2023

looks like a dead project last content change seems from 2016 https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/commits/master

In Joblint – Test tech job posts for issues

davidgerard·Dec 9, 2014

Joblint is now available as a service! http://joblint.org/ - Test tech job specs for issues with sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails. Library source: https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint

In Things I wish people who write job postings would stop writing

ebrink·Oct 22, 2013

There is a project on github that is very similar to the authors intentions -- https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint

In How not to write recruiting emails

caseyohara·Oct 2, 2013

Joblint (https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint) points out "sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails" in job descriptions. Pretty clever.

In Help Wanted — on Writing Job Descriptions

tbassetto·Oct 1, 2013

Soundrop – Oslo, Norway – Full-time/Intern – (http://www.soundrop.com) You could quickly become an expert in Chrome Developer Tools usage, memory leaks tracking, RequireJS configuration and Grunt plugins development. I am looking for a Front-End Engineer to join my team and I bet I can help you improve your modular JavaScript development skills as well as your understanding of browser internals :) The complete offer is on http://soundrop.fm/jobs#javascript-engineer <= This offer scores really well at https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint We are also looking for an Android Engineer and an Erlang Engineer. For the latter, it's awesome if you already know the language but it's ok if you have 3+ years experience building backend systems, no known allergies to scripting languages (Python, Ruby, etc.) and the willpower to learn Erlang. Summar

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y: Front-End Engineer, Android Engineer, Erlang (or Backend) Engineer :)

In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

sequoia·Oct 1, 2013

Don't take it personal, it just false-positived on "competitive salaries" https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule... clearly joblint needs some tuning, maybe a negative match if the term "competitive" is followed by the term [salar[y|ies]|compensation].

In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

sequoia·Oct 1, 2013

heh... looks like it's output a notice about competitiveness and tallied a "realism fail" point because of the terms "TOP-floor" and saying that Founders is a "TOP 15" brewery. https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule... I guess those bars are pretty low tho. /me complains but doesn't send pull request. oh well none of us is perfect :)

In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

temphn·Oct 1, 2013

Huh? Nature Publishing Group, where Rowan Manning works, makes its profit margins from extorting scientific libraries rather than superior code. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/06/boycotting_the_n... Boycotting the Nature Publishing Group The Nature Publishing Group publishes not only the prestigious journal Nature, but also many others. When this company bought Scientific American, it raised the institutional subscription price seven-fold. Now they are insisting on quadrupling the fees for 67 journals to which the University of California subscribes. Right now, we pay them an average of $4,465 per year for each journal we subscribe to. After the increase, this would soar to $17,479 per year. In response, the University of California is considering a system-wide boycott of the Nature Publishing

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Group — for example, cancelling subscriptions to all their journals. Rowan Manning works for a gang of monopolistic rent-seekers who currently have the scientific community over a barrel. His salary comes from a closed-access model which is soon to be obsolete. Thus "cutting-edge" technology is actually highlighted as a fail! https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule...

In Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails

temphn·Sep 30, 2013

This is the same kind of person who would write software to find anti-Islamic comments had he been born in Iran, or to hunt down dissidents if born in China. The kind of person who reflexively genuflects towards the current state-sponsored ideology, whatever it is (quick test: is Obama on your side?), because he loves the rush of feeling holier-than-thou. As an example, the lint checks that "bro culture" is bad, but female-friendly (like Minted.com[1]) is assumed to be good. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Very predictable. Like any neo-Puritan, he then comes after profanity, and beer, and even (god forbid) competitive-sounding job descriptions! His vision of the startup future: an HR drone stamping on a programmer's face, forever. So how about thoughtlint? Avoid hiring rowanmanning, or anyone on their

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helpfully provided list: https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint#thanks People like this will spend their time being Adria-Richards-esque thought police rather than shipping code. Contrast with Max Levchin, who actually sold a startup for a billion-plus dollars: http://blakemasters.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-... Max Levchin: The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible. There are a few reasons for this. The most salient is that, as a startup, you’re underfunded and undermanned. It’s a big disadvantage; not only are you probably getting into trouble, but you don’t even know what trouble that may be. Speed is your only weapon. All you have is speed. If you want to work in an environment full of rowanmannings, that is your prerogative. Many others will select out and find places where people who enjoy bullying others with modern taboos on gender and the like don't self-appoint themselves as priests. Do you really want a team member who spends their free time getting people to upvote their new heretic-finding software to the top of HN? [1] http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-particular-things-Minted-...

In Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails

eksith·Sep 30, 2013

The bubble rules are definitely in order : https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule... I'd argue that the var temptations array is applicable to the "bro-culture" rules as well. It's good there's one for tech : https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule... For the life of me, I never understood why any mention of an editor was even necessary most of the time. If there's a local copy of the codebase you're working on, how in the world does that have any bearing on what someone else on the same project is using? If it's major, that's what source control is for. If it's minor and nitpicky (I.E. tabs vs. spaces) plenty of editors can be configured for substitution on whatever standard that's adopted.

In Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails

rowanmanning·Sep 30, 2013Submission

Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails

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