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So, Hacker News readers who have hired people based on resumes before: How would you feel, and what would you think, if you encountered this on an applicant's r
by Erf 19y ago
So, Hacker News readers who have hired people based on resumes before: How would you feel, and what would you think, if you encountered this on an applicant's resume?
- ken 19y agoI would ask why there isn't a nonbreaking space between "Adobe" and "Illustrator". I can't think of a single instance where I made a hire/no-hire decision based on a resume. The resume indicates that they're sufficiently interested/skilled in the kind of work we do to give an interview, and gives me an idea of specific things to talk about during that interview. That's all. You could write "I implemented a Lisp compiler for StrongARM. Berkeley CS, 2002" on a polaroid of your cat, and I'd give you an interview. But Initech is probably going to be different.
- DarrenStuart 19y agoI would wonder what the hell was going and why they were messing around with font sizes and diffent shades of grey on my black and white print out. Its a nice concept but in practice it does not work. Props for trying it out.
- 0100011101101 19y agoI have done a lot of interviewing of programming candidates. If I saw a tag cloud like this, I would put this in the pile with the guys who list their skills and give themselves little unicode 'star ratings' like a movie review, in each skill. That is, 'only consider for interview if we are getting desperate to fill a seat'. It says the quality of the candidate is unpredictable but with strong odds of being flaky.