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Re: job screening question
From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:32:04 -0400
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:04:16 -0700, George Herbert said:
If people don't bother to clean up the resume, either they don't understand what's relevant now, or they don't care, or they're trying to hide something.
OK. I admit it. My resume still lists that I spent a few years hacking assembler code for OS/VS1 and HASP 30 years ago. But it's there as one endpoint, that wanders from there, to IBM's VM, to SunOS, and Sendmail, some AIX and 8 or 9 other Unix flavors (anybody else remember UTX/32? If so, we need to share a few beers and swap stories:), computer security, to supporting SGI virtual reality systems in the late 90s (IR2 graphics pipes, woo-hoo), to Linux (my code is in every Android phone out there. OK, only a few dozen lines, but still ;), helped build a top-5 supercomputer and a few other things along the way, and now I mostly do high-performance storage infrastructure. Oh, and a paper in the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science along the line. ;) So no. OS/VS1 isn't relevant now. What *is* relevant now is that I have 3 decades of experience at being tossed new stuff by the boss and getting up to speed on it fast. The day my boss walks into my office and says "We've got this new..." and I'm unable to get up to speed on it faster than anybody else in the shop is the day it's time for me to retire. ;) So the OS/VS1 reference stays. ;)
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