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My anecdotal experience: I'm ~40 with ~15 years of dev experience and 4 of management experience. I last year I decided to return to IC dev work and started a
by biddit 5y ago
My anecdotal experience:
I'm ~40 with ~15 years of dev experience and 4 of management experience. I last year I decided to return to IC dev work and started applying for full-stack dev roles.
After two months and not getting few responses to applications, I put my resume in front of my tech recruiter friend:
"You sound ancient. Delete the first 10 years of your work history and take the date off your CS degree."
Whaaaat? I was incredulous at first, but eventually did as he said.
It would seem he was right though. I started getting significantly more responses to applications and inquiries from recruiters on LinkedIn.
- cbm-vic-20 5y agoOf course, taking the date of the CS degree is now a signal you're "old".
- biddit 5y agoHaha, after having the same train of thought, I debated just taking the degree off entirely...
- dagmx 5y agoI'm about ten years younger and I already start stripping my education off my resume. It's superfluous. Honestly, when I'm interviewing candidates, the only time I'm interested in their education section is: - when they are fairly green (interns, juniors) because they don't have much experience yet - when they keep bringing up "I did this in college" and I need to see how long ago that was to frame the rest of my questions Anyone with a few years and an accomplished resume should strip their education out unless it's meaningful in some way.