Am I unhireable?

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Published on 2011-02-26T15:27:48Z Indexed on 2011/02/26 23:32 UTC
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I've received my B.S. in Software Engineering in August 2010 and I've been looking for a job since. I've gotten two interviews since that went up to the technical phone interview and then they were no longer interested.

One of the recruiters mentioned to me that they thought my fundamentals weren't strong enough. What do I need to brush up on in order to get past the technical phone interview.

My language of most experience is C#. I know Object Oriented Programming. I know what the difference between an interface and an abstract class is.

I've applied to positions from game programming to WPF/Silverlight. I have a portfolio website www.samarmstrong.me. It also has my resume on there. I never had real internship. Am I unhireable?

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