I was recently laid off so I am on the job market doing the meet the recruiter
dog and pony show. I have now heard this more than once and it really annoys
me.
Paraphrasing: "I see you do not have any OOP experience"....."Yes I do, with
.NET"..."but you work with VB.NET, not C#, VB.NET is not OOP"
When I ask the recruiters who is telling them this they state their clients are.
There client will not even consider a VB.NET background as it's not an OOP
language, only C# is.
A little venting here... I was recently laid off so I am on the job market doing the meet the recruiter dog and pony show. I have now heard this more than...
Then put c# on your CV! ... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/VB.NET-is-not-OOP--tp25666552p25666746.html Sent from the ALT.NET Yahoo...
It's because of its heritage...VB6 was not a strictly OO language...although it was definitely possible to follow OO techniques with it. A lot of people have...
... Let's not go too far here... VB 6 WAS NOT an OO language - strictly or otherwise. That of course, did not detract from its strength as being a damn good...
What I meant by strictly was that although the language didn't have all OO features (you could create classes...you didn't have inheritance I believe it's a...
... VB6 implemented a different idea of object oriented - it used interfaces instead of inheritance, but not many people got it. Funny thing is that using...
Pascal was a good language too, I fail to see how productivity comes into this discussion. There is a well defined basis for what is or is not an oo language...
Totally. Put C# on the CV. You cant fight the ignorant masses. You can only circumvent them. ... -- Nima Totally. Put C# on the CV. You cant fight the...
When a recruiter ( let's call the recruiter - caroline for now) is asking questions like this, I would play ping pong. Just quote few projects( in your CV)...
This is quite reasonable advice politically Sent from my iPhone On 2009-09-29, at 14:23, Prasad Narravula <pnarravula@...> ... This is quite reasonable...
Sorry to hear about your job situation. I just went through it myself. Keep your head up! First thing to remember - while recruiters are good at throwing...
I remember one saying to me - "I can see you've done lots of ASP.NET, but it looks like you haven't really done much .NET?" I used to be a contractor and had...
I will not hire someone whom I catch in a lie with their CV. I understand the reasoning for putting it in to get past the dilbert-phb-style recruiters but I do...
When I help people with their resume/CV, I often rework their "Skills" section into subsections like: ==Skills and Technologies== Proficient: C#, T-SQL, Python...
More often than not, at least in the UK and with contract positions, you don't know the name of the company until the very last minute when you get an...
Don't lie. Put C# on your resume. And spend a little time learning the language. Its mainly learning the different syntax. .NET is still .NET, VS is still...
Just throw this definition to their face : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSIL "CIL is an object-oriented <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented> assembly...
I don't know how recruiters work in UK/US, but here in DK their bonus is based on the salary of the employee, so they would be interested in pumping up your...
... So the issue is not really the recruiter as I have OOP all over my resume. What's bugging me is her clients; they only want C# Devs because C# is an OOP...
I know that it's not really a lot of help when you are looking for a new job (I recently went through the process myself), but perhaps you could at least take...
Recruiters are the instrument of the devil. I don't know what they are like outside of th UK but I really wish we did not have to deal with these morons. ...
Your problem alludes to a real issue in the .net community. The attitude you've encountered about VB.NET is pervasive in the C# world. There's subtle (and...
You are correct that it is just a perception that VB.Net devs tend to write more procedural styled code than C# developers. Any truely educated .Net developer...
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