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> For me, technologies actually help me contextualize how much experience the person has. When a resume says "fast learner" or "team player", well, everyone els
by itamarst 9y ago
> For me, technologies actually help me contextualize how much experience the person has. When a resume says "fast learner" or "team player", well, everyone else will claim that too and it becomes somewhat of an empty claim in my mind. With that said, a bullet list of common technologies does tend to come across as a junior level of experience
A list of technologies is just as easy to fake. So ideally it's "Because of X, in context Y, I did Z using technologies A, B, C." Rather than "I know A, B, C.".
- lhorie 9y agoI use it as a dunning-kruger sort of test. You can get a reasonable idea of skill level and areas of strengths if, for example, a resume only mentions Javascript/MySQL vs also mentioning Java/Hibernate or RabbitMQ/Docker I definitely don't take a technology laundry list at face value, especially if I see something like 2 yrs experience and a list containing Swift, React, MongoDB and [insert fad technology here]