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> a custom bootloader created by me to impress technical recruiters Recruiters don't have time to go through the process just to see your CV. You won't impres

by tspace 8y ago

> a custom bootloader created by me to impress technical recruiters Recruiters don't have time to go through the process just to see your CV. You won't impress them.

cldellow 8y ago
I'm not a recruiter, but I am a hiring manager and I'm impressed. I'm not going to go through the assembly with a fine-grained comb, but I don't need to. The existence of the final result demonstrates someone who persevered to do something novel that required more than a superficial understanding of their tools. It also lends itself to interesting questions for an interview (what was hardest, what would you change, are there other file formats that could work with this). It's not by itself something that makes me want to hire you, but it certainly makes me want to talk to you.
- gef3233 8y ago
  Thank you! This is exactly what I was aiming to, I don't expect the recruiter to go through the process but at least I can easily show some technical background.
Gaelan 8y ago
It’s a valid PDF that can also be used as a boot loader.
paulgb 8y ago
That’s missing the point. His resume is now on the front page of HN! Also, the resume opens as a regular PDF, so there’s no extra work to see it unless you want to try the bootloader.
tlrobinson 8y ago
Judging by the emails I receive it doesn’t take much to impress some recruiters. I had one tell me one of my Github projects was impressive. The problem is the repo was literally empty. Another was impressed by https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/ https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/ ಠ_ಠ
- dysoco 8y ago
  I bet the recruiter just looked at the stars and said "yeah that's got to be a cool repo"
  - devnonymous 8y ago
    I've been contact by recruiters who must've heard from their peers that GitHub 'stars' were a good thing, so they mailed me being impressed by the number of repositories I had starred (which is what shows up in your GH profile page).
dang 8y ago
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Especially not in Show HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
gef3233 8y ago
The idea behind it is that you don't need to go to the process, I am telling you that it is possible to do this and if you don't believe me you can verify it.

by tspace 8y ago

> a custom bootloader created by me to impress technical recruiters Recruiters don't have time to go through the process just to see your CV. You won't impress them.

cldellow 8y ago

I'm not a recruiter, but I am a hiring manager and I'm impressed. I'm not going to go through the assembly with a fine-grained comb, but I don't need to. The existence of the final result demonstrates someone who persevered to do something novel that required more than a superficial understanding of their tools. It also lends itself to interesting questions for an interview (what was hardest, what would you change, are there other file formats that could work with this). It's not by itself something that makes me want to hire you, but it certainly makes me want to talk to you.

gef3233 8y ago
Thank you! This is exactly what I was aiming to, I don't expect the recruiter to go through the process but at least I can easily show some technical background.

Gaelan 8y ago

It’s a valid PDF that can also be used as a boot loader.

paulgb 8y ago

That’s missing the point. His resume is now on the front page of HN! Also, the resume opens as a regular PDF, so there’s no extra work to see it unless you want to try the bootloader.

tlrobinson 8y ago

Judging by the emails I receive it doesn’t take much to impress some recruiters. I had one tell me one of my Github projects was impressive. The problem is the repo was literally empty. Another was impressed by https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/ https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/ ಠ_ಠ

dysoco 8y ago
I bet the recruiter just looked at the stars and said "yeah that's got to be a cool repo"
- devnonymous 8y ago
  I've been contact by recruiters who must've heard from their peers that GitHub 'stars' were a good thing, so they mailed me being impressed by the number of repositories I had starred (which is what shows up in your GH profile page).

dang 8y ago

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Especially not in Show HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

gef3233 8y ago

The idea behind it is that you don't need to go to the process, I am telling you that it is possible to do this and if you don't believe me you can verify it.