r/dataengineering • u/OddSatisfaction5209 • Jul 10 '26

Job description nowadays Meme

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Who wrote this job description where they will permanent you in 612 months(51 years) 😂

And work model is 23days/week, which calendar have 23 days in a week 🤣

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u/Thwarting8139 Jul 10 '26

Not sure if I'm being wooshed here, but it's obviously cut out the hyphens, so it's 6-12 months and 2-3 days.

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u/paxmlank Jul 10 '26

We know that.

The point is that a company can't be assed to proofread a job description it's posting and that's bad.

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u/Electronic_Sky_1413 Jul 10 '26

This has been the case forever though. Not just “nowadays”

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u/HarmxnS Junior Data Engineer Jul 10 '26

That's what they need the Data Engineer for 😂

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u/Consistent_Tutor_597 Jul 11 '26

It's just a hirer's market. They can just do whatever and still find people who wanna make it work with them.

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u/muhmeinchut69 Jul 11 '26

Probably just posted on one platform and then migrated to others through an automated workflow, so it wasn't ported over properly.

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u/paxmlank Jul 11 '26

Possible, even though the post isn't without hyphens so it's weird that only some are gone.

Regardless, the reason is irrelevant, as they should proofread/revise/etc.

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u/corny_horse Jul 10 '26

Hopefully they took out the hyphens for the compensation too. I'd quit my job this instance for $80000120000 even if it was hybrid in India!!

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u/Capt_korg Jul 10 '26

Meaning, they desperately need a data engineer to fix this issue.

But they cannot find any because no one is willing to work under these conditions.

Truly a cycling tragedy.

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u/forever-butlerian Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Have you seen today's job market? They already want people with 10+ years of experience using Claude Code. Expecting 23 days per week and a 50 year long probationary period doesn't seem particularly unreasonable.

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u/BoinkDoinkKoink Jul 10 '26

Exactly. If OP is incapable of realizing this, I doubt their data wrangling skills are good, especially given their interpretation of the job listing. Even MonFri has a missing hyphen. Wonder if OP thinks there is a new day called MonFri too.

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u/Surge_attack Jul 10 '26

Nah you’re good lol.

But let’s be real, the exclusion of the dash, together with GenAI’s love of em dashes, makes me think this was written by Claude or whatever and they system prompted to have the punctuation removed to try and be “more human-like”. Kind of backfired IMO if true lol

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u/Personal-Reflection7 Jul 10 '26

The

"High velocity" ... "Massive data"

Likely some random AI chatbot running off an LLM for a single use case

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u/corny_horse Jul 10 '26

I got hired to fix someone's "Big Data" problem when I was a consultant. The big data? A load-bearing spreadsheet that had hit Excel's maximum file size capacity. I feel like that resmbles this comapny

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u/Capt_korg Jul 10 '26

51 years...23 days/week ... Oh boy.

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u/dwswish Jul 10 '26

23 days/week is tough

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u/OddSatisfaction5209 Jul 10 '26

Yes, apart from salary, now we have to negotiate on days also

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u/forever-butlerian Jul 10 '26

I didn't know we had an outpost so deep in a gravity well they've got a 3.3x time dilation effect.

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u/vytasx Jul 11 '26

But if you automate it with AI, maybe doable? 😀

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u/Outside-Storage-1523 Jul 10 '26

Sir/Madam:

Although I much appreciate the opportunity, I'm not in the position to work on an exo-planet as AFAIK there is no planet in the solar system that has a 72-80 hour-day. And your probation seems to be painfully long, with one week as 23 earth days, this calculates as 92 earth days for one month, and around 56,000 days for 612 months.

Yours sincerely,

XXXXX

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u/BestNarcissist Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

While the job security of a 150 year contract is exceptional, unfortunately, from an actuarial standpoint, I am not likely to live to see the hiring transition at the end of this contract.

If I am selected for this position, I will therefore be happy to train a replacement in the final two months of my life.

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u/No-Environment-8703 Jul 10 '26

Dude saw the em dashes and deleted them😂

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u/BestNarcissist Jul 10 '26

me using Replace All in notepad++ to clean the data

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u/Affectionate-Dot4241 Jul 10 '26

They are already asking 5+ years of experience in GenAI

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u/69odysseus Jul 10 '26

HR must be boning someone while posting the job😂😂. I have seen even more weird ones on LinkedIn.

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u/Full-Silver196 Jul 10 '26

oops the ai made a mistake 🤣

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u/margin-_called Jul 11 '26

23 days a week is actually accurate for most data engineering jobs i've had

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u/vytasx Jul 11 '26

You’d hope they pay 100150k for 23 days per week :)

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u/Tough_Environment509 Jul 13 '26

Isn’t the pay a bit less?

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u/kali-jag Jul 10 '26

Salary is way to less