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It's possible to have experience, but 'work' experience on a resume implies professional (paid) time.

Which in most places is illegal at 11 years, so it comes across to me as resumé padding.



It's perfectly fair and legal to claim unpaid, open source programming experience on a resume.

The comment I was replying to didn't say "professional experience," just "programming experience." I was responding to this:

This is why, when I see 22-year-old kids in interviews claiming 10 years of programming experience, that's a negative signal for me




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