Hacker News Reader

I liked a lot this sentence:

"Do you have 20 years experience or do you have the same 1 year of experience twenty times"

If you have been doing the same thing 10 years without ever learning something new, in my view that is not a very big advantage over someone with less exp.

View on HN

Reminds me of a 25-year old programmer I interviewed once, who's resume sounded like this:

- 3 years worked with iOS

- 2 years worked with Android

- 6 years PHP

- 4 years Java

Those aren't the exact numbers, but if I were to add the years the guy should have started programming around the age of 5

Uh, he probably meant that he was doing several of these at the same time, didn't he?

Obviously. But that's a very uncommon practice in Eastern Europe and Asia (the two areas I'm familiar with). And the applicant was from the same area.

out of interest, what would someone say if they had been spending the last year working at a job that required iOS apps that interface with a PHP backend? 0.5 years each?

You combine the two in a single item, exactly the way you said it. "1 year of iOS front end development with a PHP backend."

Reply on news.ycombinator.com