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	<title>Pencils Down &#187; Interviewing</title>
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		<title>But You Don&#8217;t Have Subversion on Your Resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the joys of looking for a new contract.  This was one of a stream of emails from an agency as to each little keyword that was in the job description.  Another was &#8220;Spring MVC&#8221; which I was told was some special version of Spring and I obviously don&#8217;t have experience doing that so my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, the joys of looking for a new contract.  This was one of a stream of emails from an agency as to each little keyword that was in the job description.  Another was &#8220;Spring MVC&#8221; which I was told was some special version of Spring and I obviously don&#8217;t have experience doing that so my resume will not be forwarded to the manager.</p>
<p>It makes you kind of wonder what kind of people go for the agent job.  I bet they believe in that old saying about a good salesperson being able to sell anything.  Who cares if you don&#8217;t have a clue about what this &#8216;person&#8217; does or has been doing for a living?  Your job is to cross off every word in the job description against the same wording appearing in the resume.  You don&#8217;t need no stinkin knowledge.  (Apologies to that old Bogart film)</p>
<p>This was at a pretty good agency as well.  Pretty good in the people had a clue, at least a few years ago.  I guess times change.  People do anything for a job.</p>
<p>Of course, I am curious how well the agent&#8217;s resume matched up to the agency job description.  But I don&#8217;t think I really want to know.</p>
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		<title>What to not do in an interview?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talked with a big shop in town.  Met with a founder and a vp.  Got along great.
Job was mid-level, so had to talk to sw director and an architect.
Director went over a standard question list for all developers.  Great.
Architect interjected random questions.  Most of them did not have an answer, were trick questions, or otherwise [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talked with a big shop in town.  Met with a founder and a vp.  Got along great.</p>
<p>Job was mid-level, so had to talk to sw director and an architect.</p>
<p>Director went over a standard question list for all developers.  Great.</p>
<p>Architect interjected random questions.  Most of them did not have an answer, were trick questions, or otherwise pretty off tangent.</p>
<p>And the coup-de-grace: Gee, I graduated about the same time you did.  We must be the same age.</p>
<p>Gee, if I known you guys were jerks I would have taken my tape recorder.</p>
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