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Instead of ‘Was building a web application with [X] and [Y], write ‘Led the development of [X] feature, integrated it across [Z] products, resulting in extra [Y
by lacampbell 7y ago
Instead of ‘Was building a web application with [X] and [Y], write ‘Led the development of [X] feature, integrated it across [Z] products, resulting in extra [Y] in revenue’.
How many people are actually in positions to know how much revenue a feature of theirs brought in?
Unless I'm supposed to read between the lines and it's actually telling me to make something up.
- non-entity 7y agoI was told regarding my previous position, but it was a very small company that contracted me to do one big task
- JabrZer0 7y agoRelated question: How does one balance objective, numbers-driven reporting like this with the terms of an NDA? I imagine that most companies would consider the financial impact (or other similar statistics) of many features to be a trade secret.
- idunno246 7y agoRevenue is just one example, probably not a great one, the point is to have anything quantifiable. “Optimized web server” has a lot less punch than “reduced home page median response time from 10s to 1s”