So Axciom's transparency portal isn't so transparent at all...

Of course Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. are not in the list. Those are software and computer engineering companies

...and yet SAS is on the list, the world's largest privately held software company.

This one? http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/zeno_tort/index.asp

Time capsules appear to have a MTBF of ~18 mos; the power supply dies. Apple will replace it via an APP-covered computer that uses it, but not if you crack the case to get the hard drive out.

So, either eat the $$ after 18 mos to save your 18 mos of backups, or give Apple your data for a refurbed unit, or find a backup solution for your backup solution.

I'm not buyin' another one.

Bzzzt! Wrong answer. If you say you know , I'm going to assess your knowledge. If I catch you misrepresenting yourself, you've lost all my trust, and we're not gonna go any further. Tell me you haven't worked with it, but you can pick it up--and then we'll have a discussion about what you do to keep up with the industry. Sound motivated and intelligent, and you'll get the job. God, I hate it when candidates lie. It's a waste of time and energy for both of us.

Gah. I took these tests, which proves only that I can take tests. As a hiring manager, if these certs showed up on a resume *and* the candidate was proud of passing, that was pretty much it... Give me real world experience any day. I prefer someone with the passion to work on an open source project than somebody with the spare cash to buy a study guide and an exam grade.

If I were you, I'd worry more about my resume being clean and relevant than what prospective employers might find via a quick background check, because I can filter resumes faster than I can google your name and figure out which of any of the results are somehow speaking about you.

I've hired a few people in my career, and the process goes like this:

• Cut the stack of 100 resumes down to about 15 that know how to use a spellchecker/are relevant to the position.
• Call the 15 for a phone screen to insure they can speak coherently, and the resumes aren't a blatant lie.
• Bring the resulting 3-5 people in for an in person interview.

If and only if we get thru these steps am I going to bother thinking about googling you, or checking references and employment history; and if you've made it through these steps, I'll be sure to do it right. This is because I've invested a large amount of time separating the wheat from the chaff, and I'd really rather not do it again. If there's a problem, I'm going to talk to you about it for exactly the same reason.

Good luck with your job search.