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Aredna posted:You would be amazed how many people I've interviewed that put xyz skills on their resume and when you ask them about it say something like "Some coworkers used it a lot, but I didn't really." Heh, I was conducting interviews for a tech support job for web hosting support. We do ask that our reps understand basic HTML/PHP for the sole purpose of determining if a problem is server side or if the customer did something dumb. I had one guy that wrote "Expert in HTML, JavaScript and PHP" on his resume. I threw him a dry erase marker figuring I'd give a super softball question first to make sure we're on the same page. I asked him to write an HTML image tag on the board. He looked at me with a blank stare for a second and said "oh, you caught me!" What the gently caress does that even mean? I then asked him if I asked him to write some PHP if I would also "catch him". He nodded his head yes and said "I'm not getting the job, am I?" I told him no and sent him on his way. Seriously, what the gently caress do some people think the point of a resume is? Hint:It's not what you want to know.
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# ¿ May 12, 2011 22:47 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 14:20 |
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I was curious about this thread's opinion. I currently work in engineering operations at Yahoo! though, I have no degree or any related schooling; I have maybe a handful of credits from a fake school (art institute--gently caress that place). I'm nearly thirty and have contemplated going back to school...but with five years experience developing and maintaining server clusters; about 2-3,000 I'm responsible for, would there be much benefit to going back to school? Would certification more than likely be a better choice for me? I'm curious if anyone has been in my position and gone back to school and what their experience was going back.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2013 20:02 |
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jiggerypokery posted:What do you want out of it? You want to find a new job in the long run or you want to actually learn things or some combination? I was thinking that I'd like to be less operations and more doing code stuff. I certainly get the opportunity to write a lot of code, but it's almost exclusively PHP, Perl and Python with some nodejs newly thrown into the mix. I am just not sure if actually being a software dev is different enough that it would be difficult to make the transition without a degree, if that makes sens.
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