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i don't know how you and GP can read so much into this. sure, the website may look kind of ugly, but it is also very simple (and in fact green on black are old
by em-bee 3y ago
i don't know how you and GP can read so much into this.
sure, the website may look kind of ugly, but it is also very simple (and in fact green on black are old terminal colors. maybe just get an old terminal font and suddenly the website would look cool?), so i find it easy to look past that, but all that tells me is that this guy is not a designer. and the odd phrasing tells me that this is not a native english speaker. that's all.
if you are reading any more into this then that tells me more about your character than about the creator of the website.
- beeboobaa3 3y agoLike I said, I think it's fine and people should have their own style. But if someone says they haven't been hired in 2 years and is asking for help I might as well be hypercritical. And this is not about me. This is about all those hiring managers that may have seen this and been like "ick", closed the tab and moved on.
- em-bee 3y agofair enough, but i think that can be worded less direct and more like a possible explanation. the way you worded it in the second paragraph makes it sound like you don't actually think it's fine for yourself. only the third paragraph contradicts that. that's how i read it anyways.
- beeboobaa3 3y agoI mean I don't like it hence the observation, but usually that's completely irrelevant and I wouldn't bring it up or pay that much attention to it. You're right it could've been worded a bit more sympathetically.
- fallinghawks 3y agoUnfortunately most hiring managers aren't old school programmers. The non native phrasing isn't terrible, but at least spell Bachelor's correctly.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoThe very same part of my brain that allows me to implement a disjoint-set forest tells me bright yellow text on a bright pink background is good design.