He was very serious about it and quite a bit upset as he considered I was
lying in my application that I have the 5y experience.
I also failed the job because of that :) (not 5y xp)

Oh well, sh*** happens everyday ....

Corneliu.


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Arjang Assadi <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 30 July 2010 09:30, Corneliu I. Tusnea <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Years back when I came to Australia I applied to a job that required "5
> > years on VC++ Experience" (which I had).
> > During the interview the guy noticed I had in my CV the position of
> > "Technical Team Lead [for a 8 person team] & Senior Dev" that I had for 5
> > years doing VC++ and asked me:
> > - How much of your time was dedicated to being the "TTL" of the team?
> > - About 20-30% I said.
> > 10 seconds later he said:
> > - Well, you can't say you have 5 years of VC++ Experience then. You only
> > have 4! As you spend the rest as TTL
>
> If there would ever be a book on Programmers Anecdotes that needs to be in
> it.
> Was he puling your leg with that comment? or trying to haggle you down
> for salary?
>
> PS: Thanks for sharing, reality can be stranger than fiction.
>

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