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My sample size is much smaller, (I quit a few months after I started getting involved with hiring at my last job) but they sound about right. It's pretty amazi
by pmjordan 18y ago
My sample size is much smaller, (I quit a few months after I started getting involved with hiring at my last job) but they sound about right.
It's pretty amazing how easy it is to get a degree in compsci or game development and have no programming competence whatsoever. What amazed me too was the astounding quantity of terrible CVs, even among people who supposedly have a substantial amount of experience. I used to laugh at articles telling you to spell check your application and give other, seemingly extremely basic advice, but I swear about 80-90% of applications have glaring spelling, grammar and semantic mistakes and no discernible logical structure. Come on, how hard is it to assemble a chronological list of things you've done?
- bigthboy 18y agoSometimes those mistakes don't come from competency of the program writer but rather the translator... "All your base are belong to us!"
- pmjordan 18y agoOh, don't worry - I wasn't complaining about immigrants. I'm talking about people who (according to their CV, and by the sound of their name) had spent all their life in the UK.
- gaius 18y agoOne thing you need to watch out for is recruiters "reformatting" people's CVs, possibly without their knowledge, into their "house style". One candidate I interviewed happened to bring an original copy of his CV with him, it was quite radically different to what I had in my hands.