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Dot-com Unhealth Benefits Other Industries

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-application dept.

Ant wrote to us with a story from ZD talking about the flow of engineers back from the .com industry to, for many, whence they came. It's interesting to read, because I do know a number of people who left the defense industry to join in the Internet industry - but they've all stayed in the Internet industry.

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  1. DOT COM == POISON by imagineer_bob · · Score: 5
    If you came frome a DOTCOM you'd better have a great resume. It's already 2 1/2 strikes against you.

    The typical ex-DOTCOM resume I see reads like this:

    - Degree in some watered-down lame-ass field like MIS

    - 6 Months at GEOCITIES, and the get laid off

    - 3 Months at NETSCAPES, and the laid off

    - 6 months at iVillage

    -6 months at "Women.com"

    etc. Then they claim to have 3 years experience! BUT THEY NEVER ACTUALLY DID ANYTHING. Never shipped a product, never worked through a product cycle from beginning to end, and everything they were associated with FAILED.