@DavidK It depends on what level you're at. If you're going for a management role and you don't have any management or senior titles you're unlikely to get a second look, however if you're a programmer going for a programming job then the title won't matter so much as showing that you've been involved in large teams / organisations will (for first stage, a lot more obviously comes out in interviews)
The degree part really matters by region as well. Australia, for example, puts no stock at all in education and a majority of people haven't done much beyond a diploma. Job experience plays the biggest role here. As I understand it though the USA is very different and degree's / where you went to school matters a great deal over there.
@MonicaCellio Interesting in comparison to here where most roles now come through linkedin and use that as your resume. Not much (in large corporate) relies on traditional resume/cover letter here in the past few months.
@Codingo that varies within the US, by company type and industry and maybe other things. Large stuffy companies sometimes rule people out based on lack of degree (or penalize them in job grade/salary), but many other companies don't worry much about that, at least for software developers.
Are there specific questions to ask an overseas employer that might not be relevant for someone in your country/city?
A couple of things come to mind:
What strengths does the hiring manager expect an international candidate to bring?
Conversely, what weaknesses or problems does he foresee...
Been summoned to a disciplinary meeting. I think I'm going to come out of the disciplinary with just wrapped knuckles rather than a final written warning because I am bringing a union rep with me and they have made up allegations which have taken them almost four weeks to corroborate their stori...
Thanks for the tips everyone! I forgot about the term "ABD", though I'm not sure that would come off positively on a resume. Gives me some more search terms to google though :)
@Dawny33 Defaming a country just for few instances is bad.. India is a culturally rich nation with many languages and religions and all these differences have never stopped any one's growth and progress... — aProgrammer4 hours ago
In my experience it's a typical knee-jerk reaction from nationalist Indians to pretend like everything is perfect and nothing could ever be out of order.
Reminds me of the cab drivers in Mumbai who swore that every single person in Dharavi was happily employed and there were only a few thousand people living there...instead of half a million.
@Dawny33 so totally random question, but have you seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire? I watched that recently... I am curious what people from India think of it
Dharavi is a locality in Mumbai, India. It houses one of the largest slums in the world.
Dharavi slum was founded in 1882 during the British colonial era. The slum grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from rural poor migrating into urban Mumbai (then called Bombay). It is currently a multi-religious, multi-ethnic, diverse settlement. Estimates of Dharavi's total population vary between 700,000 to about 1 million.
Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of...
Did walk through some of the poorer areas of Mumbai (though still not the actual slums) and that was an eye opener.
I'm looking at this section of code and it just makes me want to break down and cry.
They get a number of table rows and need to figure out how many have a given value in a certain column, then determine how many of those have a value in another column.
So instead of just counting the bloody thing in a filtered loop.
Or extracting the set with the column twice.
They first dump the entire table into a temporary variable, remove all the rows that don't have the required value in column A.
Then copy the remaining rows to yet another variable and repeat the operation for column B.
Before looping a final time to count the number of rows they have left.