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Developer’s resume with experience at Instagram and Microsoft and a degree from Berkeley passed automatic screening tools.

netizen-936824 5y ago
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ghaff 5y ago
The OP is totally right. It's 100% impractical that a first-level screen is going to do the investigation needed to uncover deliberate trolling and, if the pedigree is interesting enough, it's likely going to be passed on. I'm not sure why anyone thinks this would be an unreasonable approach unless the alternative is only hire referrals and people you personally know--which has tons of problems on its own.
- treis 5y ago
  "Spread Herpes STD to 60% of intern team" In the recruiters defense, the resume was that of a Unicorn that shits gold bricks. You'd probably not read about their intern experience and/or overlook crude jokes too if you found one of those in the forest.
- zhte415 5y ago
  Did you read the CV? It takes... a minute. And the next step was an appointment for a chat. That is bad.
88913527 5y ago
This is just encouraging resumes to contain the words "Instagram" and "Microsoft" even if you didn't work there-- and there's plenty of valid use cases for that (ex: Microsoft Word in a skills section wouldn't be completely out there for any office worker, including SWEs). I've found when my resume is optimized for ATS software rather than human readers it absolutely performs better (eg: getting a verbal offer).
- Fogest 5y ago
  Unfortunately a lot of places use the even worse version of ATS where you have to basically manually fill in your resume. Manually adding in work experience, education, certificates, etc... into their own little mini fields. I find these incredibly frustrating as I have a lot of certifications and a lot of side gigs. I often end up either half-assing job applications to places that require this or just completely skip applying to them. Unless it's a job I REALLLYYYY want, I don't want to spend multiple hours doing monotonous work unpaid.

netizen-936824 5y ago

Shocking

ghaff 5y ago

The OP is totally right. It's 100% impractical that a first-level screen is going to do the investigation needed to uncover deliberate trolling and, if the pedigree is interesting enough, it's likely going to be passed on. I'm not sure why anyone thinks this would be an unreasonable approach unless the alternative is only hire referrals and people you personally know--which has tons of problems on its own.

treis 5y ago
"Spread Herpes STD to 60% of intern team" In the recruiters defense, the resume was that of a Unicorn that shits gold bricks. You'd probably not read about their intern experience and/or overlook crude jokes too if you found one of those in the forest.
zhte415 5y ago
Did you read the CV? It takes... a minute. And the next step was an appointment for a chat. That is bad.

88913527 5y ago

This is just encouraging resumes to contain the words "Instagram" and "Microsoft" even if you didn't work there-- and there's plenty of valid use cases for that (ex: Microsoft Word in a skills section wouldn't be completely out there for any office worker, including SWEs). I've found when my resume is optimized for ATS software rather than human readers it absolutely performs better (eg: getting a verbal offer).

Fogest 5y ago
Unfortunately a lot of places use the even worse version of ATS where you have to basically manually fill in your resume. Manually adding in work experience, education, certificates, etc... into their own little mini fields. I find these incredibly frustrating as I have a lot of certifications and a lot of side gigs. I often end up either half-assing job applications to places that require this or just completely skip applying to them. Unless it's a job I REALLLYYYY want, I don't want to spend multiple hours doing monotonous work unpaid.