[TurboHaskal]

> they will not tally up years of experience or record your answers directly > into an Excel spreadsheet.

About half of my interviews started with an HR phone call where they spew their laundry list of technologies and ask me to disclose the years of experience and how do I rate my skills from 0 to 10 for each element in the list.

[moretai]

How do you typically rate yourself on these scales?

You can't call yourself anything lower than a 9 lest they move on.

[TurboHaskal]

I'm not the right person to ask. I've never managed to get a job that involved HR screening phone calls.

I usually rate myself from 7 to 8. Probably 9 if I have 5+ years of experience or I would be confident consulting.

Once I rated my skills as 10 for a technology I know quite a lot about. I was then told that I was showing off and that I need to work on being more humble.

[milofeynman]

Ouch. I think I'm starting to see why so many people get jobs through connections rather than cold applying.

[meric]

They're testing for Dunning-kruger - either you're below average and you rate yourself a 7 or you're a 10 and you rate yourself an 8.