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Re^2: (OT) Programmer Job Search How-to

by bioMan (Beadle)
on Mar 24, 2006 at 20:31 UTC ( [id://539090]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: (OT) Programmer Job Search How-to
in thread (OT) Programmer Job Search How-to

I knew things would be different for my son, which is why I asked for advice. My experience in biology was that the more education you got the better. Of course post-graduate education is more a matter of being slave labor and teaching yourself how to use the library to find relevant information. Post-graduate work also meant that you were expected to have a resume that looked like a small book to prove you were working your a** off.

Everyone's comments and advice have been most useful. I wish I had done this earlier so I could have begun preparing my son for what he needed to do while he was still in school.

Unfortunately his last big project was with a professor collaborating with a government agency to create an interface to databases and applications relevant to their needs. He was working with two other students, one of whom was the requirements expert. That person quit after a couple of weeks and the other programmer quit a little later leaving my son as the only person responsible for the project. He also had to deal with about two years of legacy code and needed to back translate the code to determine what it was doing. In other words a cluster ... The professor wasn't of much help either. So I guess he really needs to start doing some coding to prove what he can do.

Thanks again for all the advice.

Mike

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