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Contra all the chuckleheads making jokes about him never getting hired anywhere today, this is actually an extremely impressive resume for a third-year graduate

Contra all the chuckleheads making jokes about him never getting hired anywhere today, this is actually an extremely impressive resume for a third-year graduate student. He had a sole-author publication in a top conference already!

atmosx 10y ago
I wonder how the resume of Jobs, Zuckeberg and Gates would look like... But does it matter? You don't need a resume to start your own company last time I checked. A professor once told me "It's common to see 'A' grad students working for 'C' or 'D' grade students.", I think what he meant was that 'A' grade students would never take the risk of starting their own business against odds, while 'C' or 'D' students sometimes do not have that many choices, so it's easier for them to take the not-very-calculated risk. Then again, all these guys were above average smart for sure and ahead of the time.
- sufiyan 10y ago
  But then again the C and D grade students are backed by wealthy parents who can afford them slacking off. This is not to undermine any of them but, when you have a fairly soft bed to fall on when things take a wrong turn, you are more willing to take risks. Most A grade students don't usually have the same wealthy parents to turn to for their whims and they have to struggle.
  - alexmat 10y ago
    Holy generalizations Batman! Edit: This meme may be dated, context: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy%20X%2C%20Batman http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy%20X%2C%2...!
  - guiomie 10y ago
    Maybe C and D have other interests than just studying? Maybe they will get something out of that traded time that the A won't, which will give them an actual edge in the real world, non academic world. Your statement is flawed and an awful generalization. Are you frustrated some of your C and D friends are more successful than you?
    - kyloren 10y ago
      Well I being just graduated from university also believe this is very accurate. I did medicine as my degree and one thing I noticed is that almost all A grade students know only medicine and at times lacks the even the basic common knowledge. Some don't have any relationships and a messed social life. I'm a C grade student did medicine read HN, I'm good at coding, I hack and love making things, have a good social life. And even my other C grade students play games, go out have a very good time/life. But there are times I feel whether I should have given up my CS skills for medicine because they don't go well together.
  - blazespin 10y ago
    I was an A student myself, but I know a lot of extremely bright and successful C/D students. They did poorly in university because maturity / didn't particularly care for the theoretical nature of the material.
- swordswinger12 10y ago
  Of course not; I never said it did matter. Hypothetically, if Google never happened and I was a lead dev looking across the table at Sergey Brin deciding whether to hire him with that resume, I'm saying I absolutely would. Any hiring manager or lead dev today would make the same decision, is my point.

atmosx 10y ago

I wonder how the resume of Jobs, Zuckeberg and Gates would look like... But does it matter? You don't need a resume to start your own company last time I checked. A professor once told me "It's common to see 'A' grad students working for 'C' or 'D' grade students.", I think what he meant was that 'A' grade students would never take the risk of starting their own business against odds, while 'C' or 'D' students sometimes do not have that many choices, so it's easier for them to take the not-very-calculated risk. Then again, all these guys were above average smart for sure and ahead of the time.

sufiyan 10y ago
But then again the C and D grade students are backed by wealthy parents who can afford them slacking off. This is not to undermine any of them but, when you have a fairly soft bed to fall on when things take a wrong turn, you are more willing to take risks. Most A grade students don't usually have the same wealthy parents to turn to for their whims and they have to struggle.
- alexmat 10y ago
  Holy generalizations Batman! Edit: This meme may be dated, context: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy%20X%2C%20Batman http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy%20X%2C%2...!
- guiomie 10y ago
  Maybe C and D have other interests than just studying? Maybe they will get something out of that traded time that the A won't, which will give them an actual edge in the real world, non academic world. Your statement is flawed and an awful generalization. Are you frustrated some of your C and D friends are more successful than you?
  - kyloren 10y ago
    Well I being just graduated from university also believe this is very accurate. I did medicine as my degree and one thing I noticed is that almost all A grade students know only medicine and at times lacks the even the basic common knowledge. Some don't have any relationships and a messed social life. I'm a C grade student did medicine read HN, I'm good at coding, I hack and love making things, have a good social life. And even my other C grade students play games, go out have a very good time/life. But there are times I feel whether I should have given up my CS skills for medicine because they don't go well together.
- blazespin 10y ago
  I was an A student myself, but I know a lot of extremely bright and successful C/D students. They did poorly in university because maturity / didn't particularly care for the theoretical nature of the material.
swordswinger12 10y ago
Of course not; I never said it did matter. Hypothetically, if Google never happened and I was a lead dev looking across the table at Sergey Brin deciding whether to hire him with that resume, I'm saying I absolutely would. Any hiring manager or lead dev today would make the same decision, is my point.