>>Is there a way to forward this blog to every manager out there? ;)
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>>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001054.html
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>Absolutely 100% right on the money. This game is about mental horsepower and the ability to adapt (learn) quickly. Experience counts for nothing if it is not the experience of learning new things ( and this coming from a grey-beard <g> )
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>When you raise a technical point to someone and they respond by telling you how many years they've been doing this you know you've found somebody whose been coasting and faking it for a long time.

I still remember when VB had been out for about a year and a half and HR departments were demanding 3 to 5 years of VB experience.