It is Clemens Vasters whom business will not hire (Score 2, Interesting)

As an architect at a large Wall Street financial house, I typically review about 50-100 resumes per year. After finding this story, I would definitely *not* hire Clemens Vasters. So repulsed am I by this story, I will now urge my colleagues at other Wall St. financial firms to do the same. So busy is Mr. Vasters at defending some imaginary, Gatesian view of how technical software and people advance in big business, he misunderstands how we actually hire and make money. Mr. Vasters, I'm sorry to alert you -- and alert you for free, no less -- to the reality here in New York. Ask any Wall St. firm, ours included. Our strategic platform is *GNU* Linux. We have a great deal of Solaris, AIX, and some W2K infrastructure. But open source is already well established. Yes, the suits have bought it. But that means they actually want people -- *GNU people* -- who help them do this more. Your proprietary orientation is precisely what we farm out to India. I get three million resumes showing every skill imaginable, Java, C#, etc., largely from India and Russia. These resumes are highly crafted to show the supposed skills that we want. But these machine, business automaton products don't impress us (except when the person stands out from this mindless processing). Nor does your resume. I look at your .aspx service and I think, "what a shallow IT geek." And I say this as the technical lead of our Web Service strategy committee. In contrast, people who have developed open source software show something important: that they actually care, and are in some way deeply interested in computers. It shows they are invested in clean, publicly criticizable design. This is who we want in IT departments. This is who we hire. Money grubbers with overrated estimations of their own skills are a dime a dozen. We leave them behind, I assure you.