I don't know if I'd outright call them fake but I've gone through https://hnhiring.com/ which aggregates these posts a few times with an absolutely impeccable and perfect resume for some companies in a fairly niche role, I'm a Staff level SRE, so way less common than a SWE, less job postings, and I've never received a reply to any of them when I can absolutely guarantee you that me as a hiring manager seeing my resume would at least give me a phone call.
For instance Kubernetes came out in 2015 (alpha/beta, 1.0) and I've worked on it since then and I'll apply to lead K8s eng jobs from these and not hear a word. I've also worked for companies like Rancher and a few CDNs that literally make K8s distros. I've worked with companies like Google, Meta, Nasa, the USA gov, etc launching production k8s clusters across the world. Like I've seen it all including in cell towers, fast food drive thrus, military use, etc.
I hire for the same roles on my team and if I saw my resume I would have a heart attack and get them in immediately. I know how rare my LOE with distsys is, I build platform teams. 99% of the people I interview that "know k8s" don't know k8s, they know Helm or yaml, whereas I have a literal github portfolio full of 7 year old gcloud/k8s/aws tools I provided the community that's also listed in my resume.
Could just be luck of the draw, of course. But my initial "oh this person will know me from HN and look at my portfolio!" is gone from these posts and I just send resumes like a normal job that won't call me back.
When I was a kid (teens/20s) I got a bunch of my first sysadmin/neteng jobs off of IRC and it doesn't feel the same at all.
wwweston|1 year ago
swozey|1 year ago
For instance Kubernetes came out in 2015 (alpha/beta, 1.0) and I've worked on it since then and I'll apply to lead K8s eng jobs from these and not hear a word. I've also worked for companies like Rancher and a few CDNs that literally make K8s distros. I've worked with companies like Google, Meta, Nasa, the USA gov, etc launching production k8s clusters across the world. Like I've seen it all including in cell towers, fast food drive thrus, military use, etc.
I hire for the same roles on my team and if I saw my resume I would have a heart attack and get them in immediately. I know how rare my LOE with distsys is, I build platform teams. 99% of the people I interview that "know k8s" don't know k8s, they know Helm or yaml, whereas I have a literal github portfolio full of 7 year old gcloud/k8s/aws tools I provided the community that's also listed in my resume.
Could just be luck of the draw, of course. But my initial "oh this person will know me from HN and look at my portfolio!" is gone from these posts and I just send resumes like a normal job that won't call me back.
When I was a kid (teens/20s) I got a bunch of my first sysadmin/neteng jobs off of IRC and it doesn't feel the same at all.