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I liked a lot this sentence: "Do you have 20 years experience or do you have the same 1 year of experience twenty times" If you have been doing the same thing
by s1rech 15y ago
I liked a lot this sentence:
"Do you have 20 years experience or do you have the same 1 year of experience twenty times"
If you have been doing the same thing 10 years without ever learning something new, in my view that is not a very big advantage over someone with less exp.
- zrgiu_ 15y agoReminds me of a 25-year old programmer I interviewed once, who's resume sounded like this: - 3 years worked with iOS - 2 years worked with Android - 6 years PHP - 4 years Java Those aren't the exact numbers, but if I were to add the years the guy should have started programming around the age of 5
- Udo 15y agoUh, he probably meant that he was doing several of these at the same time, didn't he?
- zrgiu_ 15y agoObviously. But that's a very uncommon practice in Eastern Europe and Asia (the two areas I'm familiar with). And the applicant was from the same area.
- rodh257 15y agoout of interest, what would someone say if they had been spending the last year working at a job that required iOS apps that interface with a PHP backend? 0.5 years each?
- pagekalisedown 15y agoYou combine the two in a single item, exactly the way you said it. "1 year of iOS front end development with a PHP backend."
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