“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.
lol!
Yeah,tht sucks i know.Its wht u can do whts most important not whts there on the cv.
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.
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.