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Computer science has one of the highest unemployment rates
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Resumes don't mean shit. Tech interviews are hard. If you lie, you probably won't make it to the first whiteboard interview
And if you're skilled, you don't really need "experience." Just don't lie about your skills.
How is the whiteboard interview going to uncover the fact that you only have two years of experience instead of five?
If you're skilled, then you have experience. That's the point.
Experience doesn't mean you need to have had a paid job. Decide to make a game in Java? You'll have a lot of experience. Publish it on GitHub, and that's what your interviewer is looking for
And there's no way for the interviewer to know how many years of experience that game actually represents. If it's four instead of five, they'll never know. That's the trick.
You'd fail before the whiteboard interview. Its easy to detect people with little experience
I never ask how much experience someone has in an interview. I throw a hard problem at them and watch them work
Nope. The non-technical phone interview can be bullshitted, the technical phone interview can be passed with enough skill, and by the time they get to you then you aren't even checking for experience.
There are loads of people that get through this process by lying about their years of experience. You have confirmation bias.
The only thing experience is good for is getting better at lying on resumes and lying in interviews. It's a screening process to filter out people who don't know how the sausage is made.