hahaha, and we all know what a mistake he made, hey Corneliu? Obviously missed asking the right questions and missed an exceptional candidate.
My experience a few years ago with recruiters was seeing a whole lot of ads on seek asking for developers, and then having the exact same recruiters contact me and ask me if I could _place_ the developers they found. So no real jobs afterall. Seems to happen quite often, even these days. Buzz, no! T. On Fri, Jul 30th, 2010 at 10:04 AM, "Corneliu I. Tusnea" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >
