{"id":431,"date":"2012-01-06T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=431"},"modified":"2012-01-06T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:23:57","slug":"the-daily-job-ad-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Job Ad &#8220;WTF?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>To Apply: Please send portfolio URL and resume to [e-mail address deleted]. Subject line should read &#8220;Your Name: Backend Developer.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really, now? A portfolio? For a <em>back end<\/em> developer position? Isn&#8217;t that about as relevant as asking an electrician or plumber for a set of pictures showing external views of new buildings he helped work on?<\/p>\n<p>This one cuts particularly close to home for me because my last job involved fixing the horrible mess the back-end code was on a site that looked absolutely beautiful when viewed on a browser. Interestingly, this job has been advertised regularly since last autumn, so it seems this employer is having trouble filling it.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, I wonder why\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Apply: Please send portfolio URL and resume to [e-mail address deleted]. Subject line should read &#8220;Your Name: Backend Developer.&#8221; Really, now? A portfolio? For a back end developer position? Isn&#8217;t that about as relevant as asking an electrician or plumber for a set of pictures showing external views of new buildings he helped work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}