Job interview oddity #1
by Eddy“SO you have EIGHT years of experience with C# and ASP.NET?” asked the interviewer.
“Yes, I have,” I replied.
“But, I thought that C# was only six years old.”
“Well, it was released in 2002, but I started using it right from the beginning in 2001 with the ibuyspy.net sample application as a rough guide. Back then, it was still ASP+ and was a god-send to us VBScripters.”
That seemed to convince him, but I could imagine how other potential employers would question my claim along the same lines. So, although I have eight years of experience with .NET Framework, I’m having to quote only six on my CV.
I need to remind myself to always give out number of years of commercial experience. As if the time spent on learning stuff outside working hours did not count.
Eddy.
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