All it shows me is dude is lazy and not worth hiring......seen it many times......these kind of people shirk their workload of on coworkers as often as possible.....and then steal the credit.
I disagree. He’s using current technology and getting results. He could spend weeks and only send out 100 applications with 5 callbacks.
Anyone still using 20th century technology is going to be left behind.
Shows me a certain intelligence to see a system and adapt to it. Might be useful in some positions.
I had precisely this experience at my former employment. I wrote some incredibly complex software that saved the company a ton of money. Another individual working in the San Ramon office wrote documentation about my software...and was given credit for the software AND promoted. Face time with the upper management counts for more than doing the substantial work 500 miles away.