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Do we have thoughts on how important "senior"/"staff" is vs bullet points on resumes and the years of service?

by Neywiny 5mo ago

Hamuko 5mo ago
I have no idea what goes on in the minds of HR people.
- Neywiny 5mo ago
  An interesting point. Presumably you'd come at it from a different though equally valid angle
Swizec 5mo ago
> Do we have thoughts on how important "senior"/"staff" is vs bullet points on resumes and the years of service? As a hiring manager, I only read the bullet points. I’ve interviewed startup CTOs who were mid-level engineers at best and “Software Engineer” vanilla titled engineers who have shipped and owned impressive things over years. The scale, complexity, and variety of the systems you’ve built, shipped, owned, and maintained trumps all else. And yes we can see through the bullshit. Everyone has built a “semantic document retrieval system” in the last 3 years. That’s a weekend project, gonna need a little more to be impressive :)
- Neywiny 5mo ago
  Interesting. Not looking to switch roles at present but what do you make of these two projects? One done basically over a weekend, one done over many weekends Removed a bunch of bad code and got a 1/3rd speed up https://github.com/mhostetter/gr-adsb/pull/69 https://github.com/mhostetter/gr-adsb/pull/69 Added a new chip to qemu along with some significant peripherals. Never finished it but I did boot Linux on it I think with the upstream device tree. https://github.com/Neywiny/qemu/tree/h745 https://github.com/Neywiny/qemu/tree/h745
wat10000 5mo ago
I ignore job titles on resumes. I want to know what they did, I don't care what their company called them.
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Esophagus4 5mo ago
Role is a combination of title + company. Head of Eng at 50 person startup (with 25 engineers) might be Manager 2 at FAANG. So I mostly ignore the title and look at the work history and YOE.
holden_nelson 5mo ago
Important to who? As an engineer, I just want to get an idea of where this person is at in their learning journey and what their personality is like, do they have certain intangibles, etc. The recruiter who screens the person before they ever talk to me, on the other hand...

Do we have thoughts on how important "senior"/"staff" is vs bullet points on resumes and the years of service?

by Neywiny 5mo ago

Do we have thoughts on how important "senior"/"staff" is vs bullet points on resumes and the years of service?

Hamuko 5mo ago

I have no idea what goes on in the minds of HR people.

Neywiny 5mo ago
An interesting point. Presumably you'd come at it from a different though equally valid angle

Swizec 5mo ago

> Do we have thoughts on how important "senior"/"staff" is vs bullet points on resumes and the years of service? As a hiring manager, I only read the bullet points. I’ve interviewed startup CTOs who were mid-level engineers at best and “Software Engineer” vanilla titled engineers who have shipped and owned impressive things over years. The scale, complexity, and variety of the systems you’ve built, shipped, owned, and maintained trumps all else. And yes we can see through the bullshit. Everyone has built a “semantic document retrieval system” in the last 3 years. That’s a weekend project, gonna need a little more to be impressive :)

Neywiny 5mo ago
Interesting. Not looking to switch roles at present but what do you make of these two projects? One done basically over a weekend, one done over many weekends Removed a bunch of bad code and got a 1/3rd speed up https://github.com/mhostetter/gr-adsb/pull/69 https://github.com/mhostetter/gr-adsb/pull/69 Added a new chip to qemu along with some significant peripherals. Never finished it but I did boot Linux on it I think with the upstream device tree. https://github.com/Neywiny/qemu/tree/h745 https://github.com/Neywiny/qemu/tree/h745

wat10000 5mo ago

I ignore job titles on resumes. I want to know what they did, I don't care what their company called them.

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Esophagus4 5mo ago

Role is a combination of title + company. Head of Eng at 50 person startup (with 25 engineers) might be Manager 2 at FAANG. So I mostly ignore the title and look at the work history and YOE.

holden_nelson 5mo ago

Important to who? As an engineer, I just want to get an idea of where this person is at in their learning journey and what their personality is like, do they have certain intangibles, etc. The recruiter who screens the person before they ever talk to me, on the other hand...