I have been in the job market for a while now and I have talked with numerous recruiters and HR personnel. Many times their accent to too thick to understand or they pronounce acronyms incorrectly, but I ran into one recruiter email today which made me laugh heartily for a few minutes.
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Excellent problem-solving and coding skillsGood understanding of POOP (Principles of Object Oriented Programming) and coding best-practices, e.g. unit testing, reusability, refactoring, etc.
Experience with database development and design, both with RDBMSes and NoSQL solutions
Familiarity with web application architecture and deployment
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I didn’t realize that some of what I learned in college was literally “crap”.