Terrible UX Design Job Descriptions (Or: How To Avoid Bad UX Design Jobs)

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Terrible UX Design jobs are flooding the market right now.

You can tell a lot about a UX Design job and who wrote it based on the job description. Think about it: to find a qualified worker, you first need to figure out what you’re looking for. You then need to write what you’re looking for and post your writing online. Anything you write tells people a lot about your thought process.

I’m writing this to give you some guidelines on what to be wary of, so you can either avoid these terrible UX Design jobs or at least know what you’re getting yourself into(we all sometimes need to take crappy jobs to pay the bills).

What to beware of when looking at UX job descriptions:

If It Asks You To Code

UX Design job descriptions are split up into two sections: in the first bucket they talk about what you’ll be doing (Roles & Responsibilities), and in the second section they talk about the skills you need to have to do what you’ll be doing there (Requirements).

If, in the second bucket, they’re writing something like “knowledge of HTML/CSS is a…