EJB and J2EE a liability?
This job posting was forwarded to me by Charles Monteiro, who got it from Monster.com:
Java Consultant for financial client in New York/New Jersey area. Must have JAVA, SOCKETS, THREADS, AWT ,TCP/IP MUST ALSO HAVE SQL, DDL AND DO QUERY OPTIMIZATION WE DO NOT WANT ANYONE THAT HAS WORKED WITH EJB OR J2EE (ORB / RMI) - PLEASE DO NOT Apply if all you HAVE USED are THESE TECHNOLOGIES - these Java people are a different type that think a different way...SO NO EJB and NO J2EE.That's just way too amusing. I can't think of any other language/platform I've ever seen anything like that...
Comments
Detrimental Knowledge?
[David Buck] January 9, 2003 11:58:40.227
That's the first time I've ever seen a job posting where having certain experience disqualified you from the job. That's amazing. You'd think they could just "lay down the law" and say "we do it this way" but not exclude people with certain experience. Wow.
Zealous Infiltrators
[Rich Demers] January 9, 2003 13:00:15.643
On my last project, we hired a Java programmer who took it as his mission to convince management that our (java) product had to run under J2EE. It was such a buzzword at the time that he had no trouble making his sale - even though there was no marketing requirements for it. Then, we couldn't get any other productive work out of him. This was very frustrating to those of us who were trying to meet schedules that were unreasonable to begin with (well, they always are). He messed around for two months and was only able to get a bare minimum of J2EE support working. Maybe the people advertising for a Java Consultant have had a similar experience and know they need to guard against zealous infiltrators.
What if...
[Clarence Westberg] January 9, 2003 15:18:48.342
What if I was an expert in EJBs and J2EE but decided they sucked and people who use them think bad. Would I be disqualified from the Job?