Answered: Is there such a thing as "overqualified"?
Or is it just a term made up to find an easier reason to reject job applicants?
So it looks like the consensus is "overqualified" is a euphemism for
"I'm afraid you'll leave this job because I'm assuming you'll have better chances elsewhere" aka "you won't accept being my slave forever due to lack of opportunities"
"I'm afraid you might actually understand how shitty it is here and want to improve things. can't have that"
"I don't want to figure out how much to pay you when you know your worth"
More qualification might also translate into doing a job less well. Sometimes what’s important is prompt response, staying on script, getting many jobs done. A deeper understanding could mean you’re more likely to be bored by the tedium of the more shallow role, more likely to spend too much time on an individual task, more likely to address a concern completely rather than adequately or quickly
For example, I am “overqualified” for many IT help desk roles and you bet I’d be slower than people that are good at the role. I’d be driven crazy by the repetitiveness and by stupid human tricks. At the end of my probation I’d be fired because while I answered that one customer in depth, my responsiveness metrics would be shit, I’d have addressed fewer than expected tickets, and I’d be dying to escape. Kudos to all of you who can do a better job than I.
"If your router costs less than your PC, and your PC costs less than a house, I can't help you."
me. I stole it from someone here on Lemmy to replace my former goto-phrase: "Does it has a screen? No? Sorry bud. I only do machines with a lonely VGA port that isn't even in use."
I only remember the rough outline:
Dual Xeon gold of some sort. The CPUs were upgraded in 2021, so whatever was reasonably top shelf around that time would be a good bet.
256GB RAM
Intel X710 Dual SFP+ 10gig net
Mellanox ConnectX (5, I think, not sure) 100gig net
Some high end NVIDIA card. I don't remember which, but it replaced a Quadro P5000.
Broadcom 3108 with cache battery
36x Exos 10TB 3.5" SAS drives
2x SSD of some type I do not remember
2x NVMe, don't remember those either.
Supermicro X11 mainboard.
Supermicro 5U chassis with drive bays in both back and front
Some bits were upgraded, such as network, cpu, ram, and GPU. It'd be substantially less today, but the original setup is from 2017, and I remember seeing an invoice of ~180.000 USD equivalent each. My house is 150.000 USD equivalent.
Each cluster involves four or six of these machines in a modified shipping container along with some other hardware, working as a mobile data cruncher.
Yeah. I've seen great designers get noticeably frustrated when they can't optimize the project to the level they could in school because there is a budget and maintenance factors that keep it from happening.
You also start getting into issues where that staff can vastly outperform other staff and it creates tension in compensation.
This was me a while back. I used to tell my wife that the fact that she didn't know anything about tech meant my company would actually consider her a better employee because she would stick to the script and hold the company line, even if it was bullshit, because she wouldn't know it was bullshit.