Son of Jedi Cookie Manipulator!!!

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Two months ago, I wrote a blogpost about the puerile employment listings I came across during last year’s job hunt. A number of people were surprised that employers continue to look for coding “ninjas”, “jedis”, “wizards”, and so forth.

By way of response, I started logging the more effusive job titles that passed through my RSS feed.

I thought you might be interested in seeing the kinds of people the tech industry is looking for. Needless to say, there’s plenty of hyperbole here to be critical of.

Such as…

• Agile Tester and Support Enthusiast - 100% Remote! at ORCAS, Inc. (Eugene, OR)
• Android wonderchild at Appstrakt (Antwerpen, Belgie)
• Astounding ColdFusion/Node.js developer at Clevertech (New York, NY)
• Awesome Dev Ops Wanted -100% Remote at Roch Systems (Reston, VA)
• Back-end Developer to rule the world with APP (iOS, Android & Webapp) at MIWI (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Black Belt / Scrum Master - Global Advanced Analytics - Location Frankfurt at ING (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Data-Obsessed Engineer at Periscope (San Francisco, CA)
• Director of Apple Awesomeness (iOS Lead Developer) at ChartSpan Medical Technologies (Greenville, SC)
• Expert iOS Engineer (Medium-Senior level) at the binary family & The Beautiful Weather Corporation (Berlin, Germany)
• Extraordinary Angular / Hybrid Mobile Developer at Clevertech (New York, NY)
• GUI Expert on a trading platform-Senior/Lead Technologist | Full Stack | Java | at Fortis Capital Management (New York, NY)
• Incredible node.js Leader at Clevertech (New York, NY)
• iOS ninja to work with the hotest tech startup in London at S(u)ave (London, UK)
• Looking for Ninja SQL Server Engineer to revolutionize mobile payments at Merchant Warehouse (Boston, MA)
• Looking for Top-Notch PHP / Yii Framework developers for Remote Work at Plexisoft Inc. (Boston, MA)
• MSSQL Database Developer and Web Analytics Guru at Scholarly iQ (Helotes, TX)
• PHP Web Developer (Middleweight) at BREAD (London, UK)
• PHP / Symfony2 developing genius at Appstrakt (Antwerpen, Belgie)
• Passionate Ruby Developer at Clevertech (New York, NY)
• Python Hero Makes Families' Lives Better @ Well Funded Startup at Slide (London, UK)
• SUPERSTAR .NET DEVELOPER - (C#, MVC, Agile) - Talented Team at viagogo Group (London, UK)
• Seeking passionate UI developers at BLT+ (Los Angeles, CA)
• Senior Front-End Guru - Angular expert needed. Work by the beach! at Mavice (Santa Monica, CA)
• Talented Software Engineer at Amazon (Detroit, MI)
• The Wizard of Ruby at White Inc. (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
• Unique Role Available for a Human Senior C# ASP.Net Software Engineer at Screenfeed (Saint Louis Park, MN)
• WANTED: Android Developer to Rule the World at MIWI (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• WANTED: Back-end Developer to Rule the World (iOS, Android & Webapp) at MIWI (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Windows 8 guru at Appstrakt (Antwerpen, Belgie)

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A recent noteworthy addition:

• Ruby on Rails Ninjaneer at AgilityFeat (Buenos Aires, Argentina)