February 2006 Entries
Here’s my rant on resumes: Why do people lie on their resumes? I recently interviewed a candidate who had ‘SQL server DBA’ on their resume – this so called DBA didn’t even know what an index was. How can someone put something on their resume when they don’t know the first thing about it? Do they think they will be able to ‘fake it’ through the interview? When I interview candidates, I ask a lot of technical questions. Usually after the first 3, I have...
Hello and welcome to my blog. I’m a SQL server DBA; developer; college professor, and all-around technologist. Here you’ll find rants about technology, interviewing, certification, mentoring and all sorts of other technical stuff. I hope to post every few days but who knows? ...