Tech talk Geek-speak may get techies the job but can they back it up? North Sports Final , C Edition
Spend an hour memorizing bits out of PowerBuilder Developer's Journal or Pen Computing magazine at the corner bookstore, and you'll be able to speak geek like an experienced programmer.Call it creative deceit. Call it flat-out lying, but techies, specifically programmers or software engine...
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| Abstract | Spend an hour memorizing bits out of PowerBuilder Developer's Journal or Pen Computing magazine at the corner bookstore, and you'll be able to speak geek like an experienced programmer.Call it creative deceit. Call it flat-out lying, but techies, specifically programmers or software engineers, have been beefing themselves up with buzzwords to get jobs--awfully good jobs. Boatloads talked their way into well- paying positions over the last decade. Are they tricksters? Turns out, they were just taking advantage of equally unqualified recruiters. |
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| AbstractList | Spend an hour memorizing bits out of PowerBuilder Developer's Journal or Pen Computing magazine at the corner bookstore, and you'll be able to speak geek like an experienced programmer.Call it creative deceit. Call it flat-out lying, but techies, specifically programmers or software engineers, have been beefing themselves up with buzzwords to get jobs--awfully good jobs. Boatloads talked their way into well- paying positions over the last decade. Are they tricksters? Turns out, they were just taking advantage of equally unqualified recruiters. |
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