Tag: fail

Today I received a programmer’s CV from a random recruiter…

Under experience, the most recent entry has a URL provided which points to a login form.  From which I can tell nothing. So, that’s pointless/useless and illustrates nothing.

The second entry under experience points to a Zend framework based site – “I have designed and developed xxxxxxxx.co.uk. It is a website designed to enable small scale producers to sell directly to the public. The website uses ZF / MySQL / Javascript / jQuery / Ajax and CSS/CSS3”.

Well, he’s scored OK on buzzword bingo from the above.

*Clicks on link*.

*Oh, WTF?*

The site turns out to be :

• Frames based
• Contain no real content (clicking on links calls a ‘submitForm(“rah”)’ JS function…. )
• Be missing error handling (e.g. trying http://sillysite/rah/rah/rah/rah -> PHP exception trace)
• Clearly based on a quick start tutorial (view -> source etc) due to commented out code embedded within
• Contain horrible Javascript (worse than mine) (clearly this guy doesn’t actually know how to use jQuery)

From the domain name I can at least discover who the CV belongs to; that seems to be the only benefit of it. But now I know to avoid him.

Oh, and did I mention how under ‘Main Skills’ Dropbox is listed.

So, no, sorry… I don’t think I’ll consider hiring you for ~30k+.