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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Newbie Programming Interviews/Get a Job Megathread: Fake it 'til you make it
 
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Cheesus
Oct 17, 2002

Let us retract the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wirebrush of enlightenment.
Yam Slacker
One of the bigger problems with resumes/self-stated experience is that there's no qualifier for the amount of experience. Did you write "hello world" in C++ once 10 years ago or have you been writing with it exclusively every day for the past 2 years? Whatever, it says "C++" under their skills so they must know it competently, right? I always attempt to get a qualifier for those skills or experience sets on the phone before bothering to do an in-person.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Newbie Programming Interviews/Get a Job Megathread: Fake it 'til you make it