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NemeXis
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Headhunter: So how many years of experience do you have with X?

Me: Why does it matter? I have been a software engineer for a decade, I can pick up anything in a matter of weeks.

Headhunter: *writes in his notepad: 0 experience with X"*

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  • 7
    *writes in his notepad*.

    Lol can't get any real than this.
  • 2
    A bad headhunter is a red flag in my opinion. Why a company that cares about quality would use a generic headhunter to appraise the candidates?
  • 4
    In fairness, depending on X and your experience, it sometimes matters. If it's someone who's been doing JavaScript all their lives and is going for a senior OCaml role where they're expected to jump right in, that could well be an issue.

    If it's experience in the latest fad JS framework... yeah, not so much.
  • 5
    Why are we all like this? Why can't we just grant them the simple satisfaction they ask for? Here they are, begging us to lie about it, and we cold-heatedly refuse, because it's technically incorrect... Just say you have 2-3 years of experience with X and make their day! I mean, who can prove you wrong? Will they even try?
  • 1
    @lambda123 WTF, you work at my company! lol
  • 1
    @lambda123 I worked with a similar software product and it still scares me today. No doc, no compiler/transpiler/interpreter error and warnings, just good old pain.
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