[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Brian Dunbar]

On Apr 3, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Scott Howard wrote:

> On Apr 3, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>
>> I've been refused (2-3 years ago) a job because I didn't know Solaris
>> 6.
>> "Your last Solaris release was 2.6, which is way behind Solaris 6".
>>
>> That's verbatim, and it came from the head admin.
>
> Sounds like a good thing you found out they were that clueless now
> rather than after you'd accepted the job :)
>
> At my last job I used to do the resume culling/tech interviews, and 
> it's
> scary how many people put things on their resumes like "Solaris 5, 6 
> and 7",
> or "Solaris 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8", or even "Solaris 5.7, 5.8 and 6"
>
> But it made my life easier - anyone who put something like that got
> culled immediately. (This was for a Solaris admin job, so there's no
> excuse for getting that wrong).  I was a little forgiving of "Solaris 
> 2.7"
> given that much of the documentation called it that, but Solaris 6 and
> Solaris 2.8 are too much.

I've done something like that, at the urging of the service's tech 
recruiter.  Cover all of your bases,  she said, or something close to 
that.  Since they utterly failed to land me a job (twice) I'd given up 
going that route.


Brian Dunbar
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