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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We hired a receptionist who didn’t know how to use a computer. Couldn’t type or even use a mouse. This was at a small tech company maybe 20 years ago and she was 20 something at the time. She interviewed normally and I guess someone else wrote her resume. I don’t know if she thought she would just figure it out on the job? We did skills and typing tests after that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These days young people have such bad computer skills I know I'm going to put them through an excel course before they do anything else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In the finals of my programmer apprenticeship was a multi table excel section (on paper of course) that had a 25% weight.
What was very confusing for like everyone.
Excel makes no sense, we can make a database and use SQL or something but not excel