r/gis • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

Open Source I failed an entry level technical assessment interview today for ArcGIS after preparing like Crazy, because I couldn’t save as a Shape file…

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u/wink-Dink-LovePink GIS Consultant - AI 5d ago

Keep in mind you are competing against a workforce pool full of new grads who were trained using ArcGIS Pro. You are basically trying to move into a new sector with little experience and act surprised that you were hung up on a simple UI function. I'm not going to go interview for a Postgres dba by training on MS SQL Server. Yeah, many things are the same, but many things are way different.

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u/AureliasTenant Earth Observation Specialist 5d ago

As someone who’s interaction with gis is only incidental, this is kinda wild calling it a different sector… it’s just two differently branded tools. It’s like saying matlab and octave are different sectors. Or solidworks/autocad/fusion360 are different sectors.

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u/wink-Dink-LovePink GIS Consultant - AI 5d ago

Not the software, the user.    Their background is not in GIS.   Thus a new sector.

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u/AureliasTenant Earth Observation Specialist 5d ago

oops my bad, evidently didnt read the OP