my last interviewer and I shared a good laugh at both having seen a recent job posting looking for a backend dev with cold fusion experience here in the 21st century.
@djsundog "What? no this job doesn't involve ColdFusion, we just want you to have experience with it so you know that our system is relatively better"
@darius I would respect this level of game tbh. besides, I'm always more likely to agree to something after a near-death experience.
@darius @djsundog I have read about the opposite of this in a book; for a Java job they posted that they wanted Smalltalk experience even tho it was irrelevant. they claimed that resulted in higher quality applicants, but I think it would just select for candidates who would be all the more miserable for being stuck writing Java.
@djsundog out of morbid curiosity, was the job in Claremont, NH?
In the aughts I worked briefly at a company whose biggest and oldest client had a "too big to fail" ColdFusion app that was, like, the lifeblood of their operation.
Load had scaled far beyond anything the ColdFusion server could sustain and we had a FTE whose job it was to basically just keep rebooting and putting band-aids on it the thing
Our owner never had the heart and/or guts to tell them that their busted-ass app literally could not be stabilized, it made me so crazy
@thermous I did not look closely enough to identify a location tbh but I would not be surprised, having worked inside the 128 tech corridor for a number of years lol