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How a programmer reads your resume (comic)
Posted 16 years ago
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Japanese Translation by Yasushi Aoki
Unauthorized Chinese translation, I think.
Here are the real tips
- How to recognize a good programmer
- Another Resume Tip - From Joel on Software
- Ten Tips for a Slightly Less Awful Resume - Advice from Steve Yegge. An entertaining read.
- Getting your resume read - From Joel on Software
Steve Hanov makes a living working on
Rhymebrain.com,
rapt.ink,
www.websequencediagrams.com,
Zwibbler.com, xreplyextension.com, and eh-trade.ca. He lives in
Waterloo, Canada.
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Alan
twelve years ago
The following paragraphs written by Jared are [questionable]:
"I might split "founded company" into two things: "founded company that produced useful product" "
What if he founded a company and it failed??? Isn't it important to have someone who knows how to deal with failure or projects being shut down? A developer with real experience has shut down projects by management or C-level executives. It happens all the time, and some can't handle it, some programmers take it personal, and never get over it.
Also: written papers/spoken at geek conference (+) and written papers/spoken at marketing conference (-).
you discard points for being a speaker at a marketing conference? What's your problem? A programmer who has solid business and marketing knowledge, is a potential CTO at any company. I'd be beyond impress if a read a developer's resume and it says that he has spoken at a Business/Marketing companies. It only shows me that he has other interests other than developer, and it's not going to be a code monkey. That probably has a career mindset, and not a job mindset, and that matter a lot.
I just can't believe the stupidity in those comments above.
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Benjamin L. Russell
twelve years ago
I would also add "works on Wall Street" with a "-10," and either "programs in Haskell for a living" or "programs in Scheme for a living" with a "+10."
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Sean
twelve years ago
Although, having an Objective section is never irrelevant. Part of finding the right fit is knowing where the candidate is trying to go. Otherwise, you'll assume too much about what they want.
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Matchu
15 years ago
Personal web page uses Rails, PHP, ASP.NET? To me, "web page" implies static, and so none of those should be used.
If they hand-rolled their own blog software, that's different, but that's not a "personal web page." Otherwise, that would be -4 for me, not +4.
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exSoftie
15 years ago
Internship at Google or Microsoft: +7
Full-time job at Google: +9
Full-time job at Microsoft: -1
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Paul Schreiber
15 years ago
The designer in me gives all LaTeX documents -5.
Also, Microsoft-only, C# ASP.Net are -10.
Resume more than 1 page: -10.
Sending resume in Word (or anything besides HTML/text/PDF): -5
...using tabs incorrectly in Word: -5 more
The point about certifications is dead-on.
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Shiplu
15 years ago
"Knows only 1 programming language" -> not a programmer. A language based developer
"Lists visual basic experience first" -> MS Lover?
"Resume uses combination of tabs and spaces to indent sections" -> No idea 'bout indentation
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Luke
15 years ago
This is a terrible list, though it tries to be funny.
Found a company below participating in a programming contest? I guess startups are a dime a dozen out in Cali, but that's quite silly.
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Evan
16 years ago
How very true, except "Took certification course in a technology". For most of the good Cisco certifications you HAVE to take the course, otherwise you will epic fail.
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Jared
16 years ago
Found this by way of Jeremy Zawodny. Pretty spot on if you ask me.
I might split "founded company" into two things: "founded company that produced useful product" with some positive value and "briefly had [lastname] and Assoc. consulting gig because previous employer couldn't find anyone to maintain code" with some negative value. Maybe that's too wordy.
Also: written papers/spoken at geek conference (+) and written papers/spoken at marketing conference (-).
Also, one of your old comics, on how to avoid people bugging you with questions, reminded me of my old cubicle. Good times.
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Scott
16 years ago
The metric checks out, for example:
Candidate wrote an OS for fun, but inconsistently uses tabs/spaces. Hence, unreadable code base will net them a zero!
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