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Recently was using coderpad, I believe, and after the session ended it had an advertisement for some similar scheme - a blind technical interview (with Uber, Ly

Recently was using coderpad, I believe, and after the session ended it had an advertisement for some similar scheme - a blind technical interview (with Uber, Lyft, or Facebook! it advertised) that, if you do well in, you can choose to "unmask." Was thinking about doing it, anybody else tried it? Probably would be disadvantageous to me - I generally pitch myself as a moderately skilled engineer with very good soft skills, as opposed to a tremendously skilled engineer straight up (maybe in a couple years...). Can't demonstrate soft skills anonymously.

klohto 8y ago
I’d like to think I’m more skilled in soft skills than others but I always demonstrate that at the on-site interviews. How do you market those skills on a resume?
- komali2 8y ago
  Well, like this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3Ns93sbE8v70hCt7yWJigoiL0sQZNTtMPr9zVtkoqM/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3Ns93sbE8v70hCt7yWJigoi... Best I think I can do is certain descriptions for projects highlighting my role, as well as stick a little section at the bottom describing a personal experience and showing a bit of my personality and value system. Stuff like "Led hackathon team of 4 to develop a serverless app integrating several APIs." It's really quite tricky to show off your soft skills on your resume. I think the resume should be more to just get your foot in the door. If I can get on the phone, I'm usually good to go.
  - klohto 8y ago
    Based on your resume, I think you can present all of these skills anonymously as well. Of course, there might some clear marks that will give away your gender and age, but that's up-to the interviewer to decide. All the things you have on your resume can be done by a woman or 20-year old as well as 60-year old. So, I don't this would hurt you in any way and you can still demonstrate your soft skills.

klohto 8y ago

I’d like to think I’m more skilled in soft skills than others but I always demonstrate that at the on-site interviews. How do you market those skills on a resume?

komali2 8y ago
Well, like this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3Ns93sbE8v70hCt7yWJigoiL0sQZNTtMPr9zVtkoqM/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3Ns93sbE8v70hCt7yWJigoi... Best I think I can do is certain descriptions for projects highlighting my role, as well as stick a little section at the bottom describing a personal experience and showing a bit of my personality and value system. Stuff like "Led hackathon team of 4 to develop a serverless app integrating several APIs." It's really quite tricky to show off your soft skills on your resume. I think the resume should be more to just get your foot in the door. If I can get on the phone, I'm usually good to go.
- klohto 8y ago
  Based on your resume, I think you can present all of these skills anonymously as well. Of course, there might some clear marks that will give away your gender and age, but that's up-to the interviewer to decide. All the things you have on your resume can be done by a woman or 20-year old as well as 60-year old. So, I don't this would hurt you in any way and you can still demonstrate your soft skills.