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IIRC, this is how AOL used to work. Everyone started in the call center. After 6 months, you could start working your way up, and many people went into QA and p
by ebiester 16y ago
IIRC, this is how AOL used to work. Everyone started in the call center. After 6 months, you could start working your way up, and many people went into QA and programming from there.
- me2i81 16y agoNothing attracts top-notch engineering talent like the lure of working in the call center.
- Kaizyn 16y agoI don't know. Google puts some of the most brilliant programming minds to work selling ads and I haven't heard much in the way of complaints.
- ebiester 16y agoThink of it as pre-engineering raw talent. Often, people worked these jobs while going to college, or were recognized as talent while they were there and bumped first into QA. Of course, many of us instead realized we hated call centers and found part time sysadmin jobs. :)