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Winkle-Daddy
Mar 10, 2007

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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Winkle-Daddy
Mar 10, 2007
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.

Winkle-Daddy
Mar 10, 2007

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?

If you just want to learn Stanford have their entire CS course on line. Have a flick through some of the lectures bear in mind that it is literally the best of the best in CS teaching and see what you think. Coursea also has online 6 week modules in specialised fields you wont have been exposed to at work, AI, cryptography and the like so maybe have a browse there too.

I am not a recruiter/employer and am in no position to talk on how it will affect your options if you want a change of job but I suspect with 5 years experience going to collage wouldn't be worth it on that level.

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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