Timeline for How to manage a software developer interview after long career gap?
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| Jul 9, 2023 at 14:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 9, 2023 at 13:44 | comment | added | bob | Re: the “it’s been 10+ years” scenario, you may need to go to school and get a new degree and/or get highly active in open source dev (major contributor on a major dev community project) or something similarly significant to get hired with a really long gap. | |
| Jul 9, 2023 at 13:40 | comment | added | bob | How many years is “a number of years”? It likely matters. If it’s 2 years you can probably just write a cover letter and practice a lot to ace the interview. If it’s 10 years, you may need to take more drastic steps to do a career reboot. The number matters and I’m not sure the question can be answered without it (or at least a rough estimate). | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 20:18 | answer | added | Langecrew | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 19:34 | comment | added | Fattie | All you can really do is openly state "I'm rusty since I have not worked for X years." There is infinite demand for (good) programmers, so it should be fine. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 19:06 | comment | added | Chris E | As for Java, it's not that different from C#. It's just more verbose, depending on which version of Java you're using. If it's for Android, you use an older version so there's all that getting and setting code. Ugh. I much prefer C# myself and while I know Java, I don't even apply for those. I'd rather wait for a good C# job. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 18:54 | history | edited | abc123 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 18:51 | comment | added | Chris E | These questions should help somewhat. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 18:31 | history | asked | abc123 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |