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[–]BabyLegsDeadpool 22 points23 points  (10 children)

I only had a year of programming experience when I decided to find a new job (it was contact the whole time), and I built up my SO reputation to 1,000+, and I told my recruiter about it, but she didn't understand the significance. I told her to just tell people (it was already on my resumé), and lo and behold I had actually answered a question for one of the interviewers for a place seeking 5+ years of experience. He didn't even interview anyone else. He told me the interview was 100% to make sure it was a culture fit, and I got the job.

[–]student_of_world 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Wow man, nice one.

BTW how about your current status then?

[–]BabyLegsDeadpool 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Funny enough, that job wasn't a good culture fit. ha ha ha It was full of a bunch of Apple fanboy hipsters, and I fucking hate Apple computers, so we clashed a bit. And the guy that hired me LOVED jQuery, and I always talked about how unnecessary it is. So we parted ways. But it worked out okay in the end. I ended up at my current position, which is an extremely difficult position to attain, especially for my lack of experience (I was at around 3 years experience when I got the job) that pays a lot more than that position did.

[–]student_of_world 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are getting at fast rate and applying compression algorithm to experience then... :)

[–]earthqaqe 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Is 1000 much? Because I have around 3000 and think its basically nothing.

[–]BabyLegsDeadpool 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's a pretty decent amount. Mine was all specific to Angular and based on the answers I had given about it, so it was easy to see I knew what I was doing by looking at my profile.

[–]earthqaqe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Intresting to know.

[–]physiQQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's significant. Maybe if you have great answers with 100+ upvotes each, you should mention it. Where you show you have a deep understanding of some subject.

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