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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Difficulty hiring people with C++ experience.
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 14:59:10 GMT
- Organization: Pipeline USA
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- On Jan 07, 1996 03:27:51 in article <Re: Difficulty hiring people with C++
- experience.>, 'gs678@delphi.com' (Glenn Smith) wrote:
-
-
- > [... irrelevant portions deleted ..] I eat, sleep,
- >dream programming, (except at work)
-
- I eat, sleep, dream programming -- including at work! :-)
- Amazing! I get paid (and quite well) for what I love to do.
-
- >Someday I will find the time to get a BSCS, since without it most
- >interviews may go badly. How does someone like me (programmer
- >nerd) land a job that let's me use OOD without the BS CS label
- >required?
-
- It's tough. There's so many out there who claim to eat-sleep-etc.,
- but don't, and the potential employer must weigh the verifiable
- facts more than verbal 'bragging'.
-
- BTW, employers read this newsgroup too. I now and then
- do some hiring and I remember postings of people such as
- Glenn.
- --
-
- Pete
-