Steve Yegge says something similar about applying for a position at Google. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slightly-less-awful-resume.htm

Steve Yegge says something similar about applying for a position at Google. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slightly-less-awful-resume.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slightl... 'Resume screeners keep an eye out for non-weasel words, aka Productivity Words. These are words that you can't weasel out of when someone asks you about them. The best are synonyms of "got real stuff done", including "coded", "implemented", "developed", "delivered", and "launched". It's perfectly OK to use "designed", as long as you follow it up with a Productivity Word. If you design something without implementing it, then it's just a synonym for "Proposed". If you prefer to design things that other people ultimately implement, then you're quite possibly outstanding material for a company full of kneebiters. But a real tech company like Amazon or eBay or Microsoft or whoever isn't going to hire you, because they can find plenty of people who can both design things and implement them.'