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Just to your point about the recruiter’s assessment— I’ve never met a modern tech recruiter who can make that kind of remark. They largely focus on buzzwords a

Just to your point about the recruiter’s assessment— I’ve never met a modern tech recruiter who can make that kind of remark. They largely focus on buzzwords and where you went to school. Seems like they even often fail the companies they work for by designing poor matches and wouldn’t recognize experience like you’ve noted as being worth anything. Then again, maybe I’m just in a weird bubble here. And I’m just generalizing—they’re not all the way I’ve described, but many (possibly most) are.

0x445442 8y ago
"Just to your point about the recruiter’s assessment— I’ve never met a modern tech recruiter who can make that kind of remark." How many years experience of "the XML" do you have?
- 52-6F-62 8y ago
  Oh at least twice the lifetime of the technology. I'm a veritable expert.
- JDWolf 8y ago
  "What versions of .Net were you using at each of these jobs?" "What percentage of time were you using SQL databases?" "On a scale of 1-10, how well do you know Java?" and my personal favorite...."Are you willing to do a contract role for less than your salary? We have many candidates go long term."
autokad 8y ago
as a data scientist, I would struggle to answer 'what % of your work involves programming in python?' I'm like well uh that depends. 95% if you include #import sklearn and basic numpy and pandas operations. 01% if you consider 'real programming'. 'so what %?' ... That aside, there is a real problem in the tech industry when it comes to developing talent. Universities teach mostly theory and rely on the industry to teach us best practice, 'production level coding'. but then once they get to the industry, they get no mentorship. companies don't want to spend time training someone who will leave in 2 years. however, if everyone did solid mentorship programs, the entire industry would benefit.
RichardCA 8y ago
There are good and bad recruiters in every age. Back in the day they would ask you if you knew MVS or OS/390, and if you said no to that, they'd proceed to ask if you knew TSO.

0x445442 8y ago

"Just to your point about the recruiter’s assessment— I’ve never met a modern tech recruiter who can make that kind of remark." How many years experience of "the XML" do you have?

52-6F-62 8y ago
Oh at least twice the lifetime of the technology. I'm a veritable expert.
JDWolf 8y ago
"What versions of .Net were you using at each of these jobs?" "What percentage of time were you using SQL databases?" "On a scale of 1-10, how well do you know Java?" and my personal favorite...."Are you willing to do a contract role for less than your salary? We have many candidates go long term."

autokad 8y ago

as a data scientist, I would struggle to answer 'what % of your work involves programming in python?' I'm like well uh that depends. 95% if you include #import sklearn and basic numpy and pandas operations. 01% if you consider 'real programming'. 'so what %?' ... That aside, there is a real problem in the tech industry when it comes to developing talent. Universities teach mostly theory and rely on the industry to teach us best practice, 'production level coding'. but then once they get to the industry, they get no mentorship. companies don't want to spend time training someone who will leave in 2 years. however, if everyone did solid mentorship programs, the entire industry would benefit.

RichardCA 8y ago

There are good and bad recruiters in every age. Back in the day they would ask you if you knew MVS or OS/390, and if you said no to that, they'd proceed to ask if you knew TSO.