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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

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.