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Maybe the kid has been contributing to open source projects? It seems like there are a lot of teenagers sending pull requests to prominent Github repos these da

• slaman 13y ago
  It's possible to have experience, but 'work' experience on a resume implies professional (paid) time. Which in most places is illegal at 11 years, so it comes across to me as resumé padding.
  • kyllo 13y ago
    It's perfectly fair and legal to claim unpaid, open source programming experience on a resume. The comment I was replying to didn't say "professional experience," just "programming experience." I was responding to this: This is why, when I see 22-year-old kids in interviews claiming 10 years of programming experience, that's a negative signal for me