To experienced coders - employment agencies

Question

Hello, I'm Greg, I live in the UK and my background is mechanical engineering and computer aided design. Coding has been a hobby and interest of mine for a few years now. I would love to be given a chance to code professionally so I added some of my knowledge to my CV.

Listing languages I'm familiar with means employment agencies occasionally call me to ask about it.

This morning I had one of these phone calls.

One of the questions was if i have experience of C#. I explained I've coded a basic SolidWorks add-in in a previous job.
I was then asked me about experience of .NET. ahh ... well yeh, I just explained about C#. (would C# without .NET be a thing employers know about?)

She then asks about experience of MVC.
This question confused me somewhat ... model view controller? in what context?

How would you answer if asked about your MVC experience?

Answer 1

Greg Hurlock most of the time these initial calls are made by a hr person with no technical background, that just go through a checklist of keywords and expects certain answers, so its hard to say what they wanted to know. maybe they wanted to hear something like, yes i have developed an application in asp.net utilizing the mvc pattern to decouple server side processing and different client side implementations

Answer 2

I've listed off frameworks and gotten jobs. They may be just checking to see if you have experience with any of the ones they may be using to see if you can pick up any slack they may have. Not usually a huge deal if you don't though. Max's answer was levels above what I think most of the hr people are able to comprehend and would immediately get put down as "he's super qualified in mvc usage" lol.

I think they usually are just inquiring to see if you even know what mvc is lol.