The Internship Requiring a Time Machine for Experience

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A screenshot of a satirical Twitter poll posted by an account named 'Jr. Tech Recruiter' with a Doge in a suit as a profile picture. The poll asks, 'How many years experience with GraphQL should someone have before starting their internship?'. It presents three options: '5-9 years' (8% of votes), '10-14 years' (9% of votes), and '15+ years', which has been overwhelmingly selected with 83% of the 174 votes. The humor lies in the impossibility of the requirement; GraphQL was publicly released by Facebook in 2015, so at the time of the tweet (June 2021), having even 6 years of experience was rare, let alone 15+. This meme is a sharp critique of unrealistic and out-of-touch job postings from recruiters who often demand more years of experience for a technology than it has existed. The developer community's sarcastic participation in the poll highlights a shared frustration with the broken tech hiring process

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I have 15 years of experience in GraphQL. The first nine were spent waiting for it to be invented

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

I have 15 years of experience in GraphQL. The first nine were spent waiting for it to be invented
Anonymous

“Internship requires 15+ years of GraphQL? Perfect - let me git checkout the 2008 branch where I migrated our CORBA endpoints to SDL, fire up the DeLorean, and I’ll be right over.”
Anonymous

The same recruiter who rejected my resume for not having 10 years of Kubernetes experience in 2016 just asked if I could mentor their nephew who's "really good at ChatGPT."
Anonymous

Ah yes, the classic recruiter requirement: 15+ years of GraphQL experience for an internship. Given that GraphQL was open-sourced by Facebook in 2015, this means they're looking for someone who not only worked on the internal Facebook team before public release, but also somehow needs an internship despite being a principal-level engineer. It's the perfect Catch-22: you need experience to get experience, but the experience required predates the technology's existence. This is why senior engineers joke that their résumés should list '20 years of Kubernetes experience' and '15 years with Rust' - if recruiters can demand time travel, we might as well claim it
Anonymous

15+ years GraphQL for interns? Adorable - the spec's still in diapers at 9
Anonymous

15+ years of GraphQL for an internship is the perfect filter - only candidates who can time‑travel, dodge N+1s with DataLoader, and federate the coffee machine count as “junior.”
Anonymous

Internship requires 15+ years of GraphQL - translation: we only hire candidates whose resolvers can query 2010; extra credit if you wrote the spec
@pyproman 5y

2012
@emil_wislowski 5y

that's the point
@mukhamed_izudinov 5y

Надо выучить английский
1. @sylfn 5y
  
  Translation: Have to learn English. Yes, you have to learn English (or use a translator) to write in this chat. As I can see, you are from comments section, and you may haven't seen the rules of this chat. Please, refrain from usage of any language except English during chatting there, thanks in advance! - No Spamming or Advertising This includes GIFs or Videos that can crash certain systems. - Talk english You may add a translation to your native text You won't get immediately banned, but firstly you will get 3 warnings. This is not a warning, so you don't need to worry about them for now.
@pyproman 5y

2012 is the first (private) release
1. @kitbot256 5y
  
  so general public has 6 years experience tops, some people may have up to 9 years?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  depending on when in 2015 it was released, possibly max 5 years and a little more
@tnov1k 5y

UKRAINIAN WAS TORN
1. @JPx86 5y
  
  ... I won't comment this shit
  
  @tnov1k 5y
  
  You've just commented lol
2. @p4vook 5y
  
  (на русском: хохлинка порвалась)
  
  @JPx86 5y
  
  Да понял *Got it*
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  please speak english in here or at least provide an english translation to your russian text
@arpanetus 5y

I support austrian supremacy
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  good
  
  @arpanetus 5y
  
  ill find hungary to restore old monarchy, but would you be a franz ferdinand (without slavs)?
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  ._.
2. @mityabb 5y
  
  like what, reject modernity, return to Habsburg? Embrace tradition
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  chins go brrr
  
  @arpanetus 5y
  
  exactly
  
  @mityabb 5y
  
  I hope you heard about mechanization in agriculture, right?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  thanks, but we don't want none of your fancy-pants machines
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  all these complicated gears and levers
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  We're sticking to good, old-fashioned bull-powered plowing
3. @iGrino 5y
  
  Feel unstoppable necessity to occupy Poland?
  
  @arpanetus 5y
  
  exactly
  
  @kitbot256 5y
  
  30 comments till somebody hits the Godwin's Law. This was fast LOL.
  
  @arpanetus 5y
  
  wait, that's the different case :D
  
  @kitbot256 5y
  
  speaks German occupies Poland, while teaming with Russia The difference is very subtle.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  Also is a hedgehog
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I did a thing
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  took a pic of myself, how do I look?
  
  @mmddvg 5y
  
  you look gorgeous
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  thanku
@arpanetus 5y

Austria was best when it was a monarchy
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I agree
2. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  It was best back when it was still schnitzel-shaped

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