Author: Zach Wegner
Date: 20:20:02 12/09/04
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On December 09, 2004 at 21:44:25, Eric Oldre wrote: >One day he gets a call on his phone. It's the hiring manager of a company he had >an interview with 2 days before. Certainly nice of him to call me and give me >the "thanks but no thanks" talk he thinks. After all he could tell the guy was >less than inspired by his qualifications during the interview. The deeply in >need of money graduate is stunned to find he is being offered a job! A senior >programmer at the company had followed the link to the chess game at the bottom >of the resume and decided that if he could write “JChess” with no training, he >had enough potential to be worth the gamble. The game which his friends had >warned him could cost him his future had actually turned out to be the primary >reason he found a job! Interesting story. This is good to know, because I have written a Java chess board and a decently complex/good chess engine with no training, and my grades aren't very good... :) Regards, Zach
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