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Not to pick on this person, really, but I saw the picture and noted he said "20 years experience" and I thought, hrm, he looks kind of young. CV then says he ha
by readingnews 6y ago
Not to pick on this person, really, but I saw the picture and noted he said "20 years experience" and I thought, hrm, he looks kind of young. CV then says he has been programming since he was 13.
I see this A LOT as of late. People are counting high school side projects as real world experience... but that is not exactly the same as on the job experience. I am NOT knocking the awesome work you did in high school, hell, as an EE person, I could say I designed circuits when I was 12, but I would never add 10 years to my CV or my blog by counting it.
Honest question: is this the new norm?
- jhardy54 6y agoI think "experience" is too ambiguous to be useful, honestly.
- arp242 6y ago"Experience" is always tricky to define; is a part-time job "experience"? Is spending 20 hours/week on free open source stuff "experience"? I definitely spent an insane amount of time programming all sorts of stuff that don't count a experience in the classic CV sense, but that I did learn a lot of things from. I've also known people that have been in the same job for years and don't seem to learn a thing. So idk. At any rate, I updated it to 15 now; which is job experience + 2 (soon + 1, when it's 2021), which seems more than fair. I should probably rewrite this tagline entirely.