I used to do these when I didn’t have a job, and since then I’ve been looking a lot less (read: not at all) for a new job. This, however, was accidentally clicked on in Apple Mail and I was tempted to dissect yet another one.

This is what made me cringe the most. If you’re a recruiter sending out recruitment emails, why do it from a gmail address? Why not use your own?

Who? It helps to list names. Names attract people. If I told you I was going to buy you a beer you’d get all excited. Then I would reveal it would be a Fosters, and you wouldn’t be so excited.

With / without tax? Numbers are great, but more information is definitely needed here.

Ah! There it is!

No really?

Rupees? Zimbabwean Dollars? Kroner? Helps to specify a currency… but I guess American is inferred. Also, “fee”? Do we owe you money if we refer our friends to you?

  We know you’d send your pals for free, but that’s how we roll

Ah, a smiley face. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Also, respect goes out to the use of non-professional language here, makes it feel much better.

“Aggressive product list”? What are we talking here? A few robberies with a weapon? Rape? Murder? Genocidal maniac?

The team should motivate the developer, but it does help to be self-motivated too. Each member of the team should feed off each other’s energy.

Running makes me sweaty. How fast are we talking?

Pepsi Max and a proper sleep cycle gives me all the energy I need

Rather not, I hear the commute from here to there is about 22 hours!

As compared to the other kind of requirements?

So, say, an aspiring Trolley Pusher wouldn’t be the right kind of person for this job then?

We spent long nights together in an orgy of code. There were files flying all over the place! A few commits took place, but nothing serious.

Ruby’s going monorail now, huh?

Inferred from last statement

ditto

Uh oh, -1 point for chucking in “semantic” in there. Big words make people sad. “Well-structured” is what I would put there.

I have nothing witty to say about this.

Well, given that the position seems to be a Software Engineer-like position, this is pretty much a given. All application development is “ongoing”

Ah, so the position is now more of a Software Engineer meet Tech Support meet Project Manager position now? Cool. Probably a bit overwhelming for one person (we have this in three separate roles @ NetFox)

Easy enough with Capistrano, which most Ruby on Rails developers worth their salt should know.

Overall, a fairly good job advertisement. Still struggling to come up with a reason for posting from Gmail, but I’m sure there’s a fairly good one behind it. Thanks for not using buzzwords (apart from the iffy “semantic”)! It takes me so long to pick them all out and decipher them… I once saw “increases business continuity” on a website and I’m still trying to figure out what it means.

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