IT industry words or phrases that make your heart sink....

[woohoo]

pair programming.

[NotAllThere]

TCS
Cognizant

[OwlHoot]

The 33 worst lines ever said by tech recruiters

1. "We need someone who is bright and passionate. Our product is one of a kind and slated to be a total game changer."

2. "We are serious about changing the world."

3. "We need people who think so far out of the box that the box isn't even in the picture anymore."

4. "This will give you great exposure to big data in the cloud, and you will be working with some extremely intelligent technologists!"

5. "As a company that specializes in innovation, [we] want the best and brightest creative visionaries."
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6. "I am working with the founders of a stealth mode startup disrupting the infrastructure/data center space."

7. "We are working on absolutely amazing things and will scale tremendously."

8. "We have a tight-knit dynamic team that is responsible for delivering consumer experiences."

9. "We're looking for a code ninja..."

10. "We're looking for a Java wizard..."

11. "We're looking for someone truly brilliant, and so we're willing to offer a lot:

12. "Want to work with a team of diverse rock stars?"

13. "Would it help if I told you that I was helping out with ninja engineer hiring for Facebook?"

14. "Chuck Norris coding skills required."

15. "EliteCoder you = new EliteCoder("Can you code with the best?");"

16. "The company is the first of its kind, as it is 100 percent focused on the integration of mobile/wearables and enterprise."

17. "Think of it as Box.com meets LinkedIn meets Facebook with real privacy."

18. "Our product combines many elements of Facebook, eBay, Blogger, PayPal, and Etsy."

19. "This is a ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY."

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(bored copying and pasting, but the article lists lots more horrors)

oh, two more :

We expect you to:
-- be totally gay for code"

23. "The environment is hip and modern, and very inclusive and friendly to women and other weirder types

[tomtomagain]

"Best Practice"


how I hate that phrase.

[northernladuk]

Best endeavours...

[PurpleGorilla]

Intelligent solutions
Game changer
User experience

[sirja]

Offshore
Stand up
Steering Committee
Smoke Test
Rollback

[SurfQueen]

"It worked on my machine!"

[_V_]

Best shoring
InfoSys
Wipro
Tata
TCS
Cognizant

[cojak]

'Out of the Box' tool implementation.

Although this generally also means extensions when I hear it.