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as someone who has done 100+ first round interviews for SWE, including new grad zero signal: resume & cover letter. applicants will mass-apply with ai-tuned re

• tayo42 4mo ago
  Refferal make sense, but all of mine ended with rejections. Clearly I'm not a moron since I'm getting reffered by ex coworkers and still ill even get an automated rejection...
• kajman 4mo ago
  > zero signal: resume & cover letter. applicants will mass-apply with ai-tuned resumes that happen to perfectly match our listing How often do you interview candidates with bad or mediocre resumes, though? My impression is that a perfectly tuned (and almost certainly dishonest) resume is just table stakes now.
  • vanuatu 4mo ago
    not very often which is why its zero signal in rare occasions it might go the other way around, like someone who has so much experience they dont need a pretty resume because their work speaks for itself New grads are the biggest offenders of the resume slop
• jgafni 4mo ago
  Could you be overlooking great candidates who didn't go to top school or have a personal referral, yet have the skills and would be great to work with? I've worked with many engineers who fit that category. Both of those signals reflect prior selection by someone else. Admissions committees, your network's hiring choices. Those signals also correlate with class, geography, and network access. I'm not saying that referrals and schools don't predict. They do. But no referrals and no top school doesn't necessarily mean a candidate isn't a fit. The more AI advances, the greater the need for a new signal.
  • vanuatu 3mo ago
    100%, if someone from a no name school does well on the interview I’ll happily recommend them to be hired. However idk how HR filters resumes, and they likely use certain heuristics to try and minimize false positives