It’s time for a rant. My friend had a phone interview recently and the guy asked him if he knew how to script. A very reasonable question and my friend said yes and yada yada yada the interview goes on and he asks questions about scripting, not bad, until he tells my friend “we are looking for people with at least 18 years of experience”. That’s when I tell my friend, “what the heck?”. The guy had seen the resume before the interview and knew how old my friend would be, 28 to be specific.  So I say, “in order for you to have 18 years of experience you would have to be scripting since you were 10 years old”.

If it were me, I would want to scream at the guy and hang up, whether I’d do it or not is another question. I say if you have been scripting for five years you have pretty darn good experience and know your stuff.

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