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I never wear high heels. So I can crawl into cracks and crevices to snap awesome pics... AFAIC, automatic interview line. It says so much: - She understands

by edw519 16y ago

I never wear high heels. So I can crawl into cracks and crevices to snap awesome pics... AFAIC, automatic interview line. It says so much: - She understands the ugly stuff needed to get to the pretty stuff. - She's willing to do the ugly stuff. - Her work is more important than her ego (I think). - She "gets it". (Somehow I don't imagine a poser would have ever thought of putting it quite this way.)

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brown9-2 16y ago
Don't you think it's also possible for someone to know exactly what an employer would like to hear, and then say exactly that?
- kmfrk 16y ago
  If she can win over edw519, I'm sure it doesn't hurt to put it in your application. Regardless of what can be construed from it. :) Telling an employer what they want to hear without the employer noticing is still a skill, no less.
crux_ 16y ago
I also detect a bit of a subtext, specifically: "I can hang with the boys." The startup world is what it is, and getting that message across will help her immensely in finding a job.
Tichy 16y ago
I thought wearing heels is "the ugly stuff" (bad for joints and muscles, painful, suffering to look good).
alex_carlill 16y ago
this comment is possibly the most asinine thing I've read all day - naive, ignorant and kinda sexist as well. whether or not someone wears high heels says very little about them, and drawing conclusions from its insertion in a CV is beyond stupid.
alex_carlill 16y ago
"She understand the ugly stuff needed to get to the pretty stuff". could you be any more sexist/patronising? "Her work is more important than her ego" yeah, because a woman's ego = her appearance yr analysis of that line is emblematic of the absurd good looks/competence false dichotomy - as well as the quasiautistic lack of social comprehension - that plagues parts of the tech world. I will say this much, though - it's a fairly clever (if cynically so) thing to put in a CV, as it's perfectly calculated to fool geeks like edw519.

by edw519 16y ago

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brown9-2 16y ago

Don't you think it's also possible for someone to know exactly what an employer would like to hear, and then say exactly that?

kmfrk 16y ago
If she can win over edw519, I'm sure it doesn't hurt to put it in your application. Regardless of what can be construed from it. :) Telling an employer what they want to hear without the employer noticing is still a skill, no less.

crux_ 16y ago

I also detect a bit of a subtext, specifically: "I can hang with the boys." The startup world is what it is, and getting that message across will help her immensely in finding a job.

Tichy 16y ago

I thought wearing heels is "the ugly stuff" (bad for joints and muscles, painful, suffering to look good).

alex_carlill 16y ago

this comment is possibly the most asinine thing I've read all day - naive, ignorant and kinda sexist as well. whether or not someone wears high heels says very little about them, and drawing conclusions from its insertion in a CV is beyond stupid.

alex_carlill 16y ago

"She understand the ugly stuff needed to get to the pretty stuff". could you be any more sexist/patronising? "Her work is more important than her ego" yeah, because a woman's ego = her appearance yr analysis of that line is emblematic of the absurd good looks/competence false dichotomy - as well as the quasiautistic lack of social comprehension - that plagues parts of the tech world. I will say this much, though - it's a fairly clever (if cynically so) thing to put in a CV, as it's perfectly calculated to fool geeks like edw519.