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The hilarious thing about this is comcasts ridiculously buzz worded job ads for engineers. It's like they just cut and pasted everything any manager read in a blog or magazine and pasted it to dice: http://www.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=302&d...



- Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.

WOW.

- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

No developer in their right mind would apply for this job.


    > Tasks
    > Consistent exercise of independent judgment and
    > discretion in matters of significance.
This one literally stipulates that you will be expected to think for yourself on a regular basis. Why on earth is this in there?


as a catch all. if they want to get rid of you, they can always cite this as a reason.


This at least partially explains the quality of their code.




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