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Originally Posted by CynicalC
Perfectly reasonable. That's to weed out the fresh out of school "engineers" who have only ever engineered things on paper.
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Disagree. Let me explain.
Easiest way I've seen for companies to do that is to require 2-5 years experience, not by asking about their tools. That rules out almost all recent graduates in one fell swoop, including co-op students. Unless a student had a recurring position on-again, off-again at the same company and/or worked the same job for a consult firm at the same time as taking courses, (which there are 1 or 2 of in my class) they won't have 2+ years.
If someone asked me that, it would scream of a cheap employer not wanting to supply their own tools to me. I don't think that's a perfectly reasonable weed-out question at all, that's a cheap/unreasonable employee job scope question. I'd have the same response as DC to those questions. I don't mean to sound entitled but I don't think that guy had a reasonable expectation of job scope vs. pay vs. education requirements. I'd walk out. At-will employment is a two way street.