On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:51 PM, kunal ghosh <kunal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I read a lot of emails in this list and others, posting job offerings. > They all list, "years of experience" required by a candidate to be > considered for the job. > > But what is the metric to measure this experience. If it indirectly means , > "corporate experience" > ( in django , etc ) does it mean that free and open source developers who > use these technologies > in their free time (and not in their day jobs) are NOT experienced ? > Even though they might have worked with those technologies for a much > longer > duration than > the "experienced" ones ? > > looking for comments, suggestions and constructive criticism. > Folks in the corporate world mostly want people with blinders on . so there is no metric as such i have seen cases where the hiring manager asks for requirement to the HR guy, who then starts looking out again by the time it transaltes to a JD is typically heavily loaded ( means too many keywords ) than required for the job . i have also seen cases where in Hiring manager goes by recommendations from peers in and out of the company about a candidate. there is a third kind where in the Hiring manager takes a call based on an interview on that day , and considers FOSS experience as a prime qualification. the third kinds are less and rare but they are growing by the day -Satya fossevents.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
