Job interview oddity #1
“SO you have EIGHT years of experience with C# and ASP.NET?” asked the interviewer.
“Yes, I have,” I replied.
“But, I thought that C# was only six years old.”
“Well, it was released in 2002, but I started using it right from the beginning in 2001 with the ibuyspy.net sample application as a rough guide. Back then, it was still ASP+ and was a god-send to us VBScripters.”
That seemed to convince him, but I could imagine how other potential employers would question my claim along the same lines. So, although I have eight years of experience with .NET Framework, I’m having to quote only six on my CV.
I need to remind myself to always give out number of years of commercial experience. As if the time spent on learning stuff outside working hours did not count.
Eddy.
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lol!
Comment by Yashvin — Tuesday, 12 August 2008 16:34 GMT #
Yeah,tht sucks i know.Its wht u can do whts most important not whts there on the cv.
Comment by Chresian — Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:48 GMT #
I always think that practical experience is what matter more. Its stupid to see that at many place paper-base proof and experience is what matter more…
You could put on yr CV that u have officially X years of experience bbut infact have much more than that. There are also some people who can have a very good CV ( just to show off) but is completely null when it comes to practical work.
Comment by Avish — Sunday, 17 August 2008 11:33 GMT #
This is why at least one of the interview stages involves a test of the candidate’s technical knowledge.
As for the viability of the Google-esque technical interviews, I think they are over the top in most cases. Who cares about the different sorting algorithms when your job will require you to work with a framework that already implements the most efficient sorting?
Eddy.
Comment by Eddy — Sunday, 17 August 2008 15:58 GMT #