[s1rech]

I liked a lot this sentence:

"Do you have 20 years experience or do you have the same 1 year of experience twenty times"

If you have been doing the same thing 10 years without ever learning something new, in my view that is not a very big advantage over someone with less exp.

[zrgiu_]

Reminds me of a 25-year old programmer I interviewed once, who's resume sounded like this:

- 3 years worked with iOS

- 2 years worked with Android

- 6 years PHP

- 4 years Java

Those aren't the exact numbers, but if I were to add the years the guy should have started programming around the age of 5

[Udo]

Uh, he probably meant that he was doing several of these at the same time, didn't he?

[zrgiu_]

Obviously. But that's a very uncommon practice in Eastern Europe and Asia (the two areas I'm familiar with). And the applicant was from the same area.

[rodh257]

out of interest, what would someone say if they had been spending the last year working at a job that required iOS apps that interface with a PHP backend? 0.5 years each?

[pagekalisedown]

You combine the two in a single item, exactly the way you said it. "1 year of iOS front end development with a PHP backend."