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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're not crazy, it's just that posts like this are generally tribal. Nobody here actually knows what the day-to-day of that job is, they just want a pretext to vent about their own experiences of being asked to do work that they didn't want to do.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

also potentially unpopular opinion: I've encountered about as many engineers over the years that were under-skilled for their positions, than ones who were competent. Whenever I see posters whine about how unreasonable the requirements for a job posting is, I always instinctively read it in one of the former's voices...