Am 04.08.2012 22:46, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:

> The test was laughably trivial. Anybody who's read Chapter 1 of SQL for
> Dummies would have aced this test. It was literally "do you know what
> SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY and GROUP do?" And yet, the interviewer told me,
> with a straight face, that "I have people walk in here telling me they
> have 20+ years' SQL experience and they can't do /any/ of that test!"
>
> And that was the day I realised that unlike me, /some/ people must be
> utterly LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH. O_O

"SQL experience? Yeah, the system we were using was based on some SQL 
database. Check."

Yes, that happens.


Congratulations, you just discovered another soft skill of yours: 
Honesty and trustworthiness.

Post a reply to this message