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Other than the single phrase you pointed out, nothing else in his post jumps out to me as being similar to the typical Indian style of English writing. Until v

by saryant 14y ago

Other than the single phrase you pointed out, nothing else in his post jumps out to me as being similar to the typical Indian style of English writing. Until very recently I used to work for one of the big outsourcing firms so I've exchanged more than my share of emails with offshore devs. This one just doesn't strike me the same as those emails. I'll give you (2) and (3) but he may also just be overreaching. Analytics could equal throwing Google Analytics on a page. Ecommerce, a PayPal integration. And who hasn't grabbed some data from the Twitter API when testing out a new framework or library? I'll agree that that's a very broad range, maybe. Overall, however, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not an overseas dev trolling for leads.

niggler 14y ago
on point 1: "API's" <-- this could be sampling bias, but I've never seen an american write it like this (though, to be honest, I've never seen a resume include the abstract assertion that the person is familiar with APIs) "Social API's" <-- If this person used the Twitter API then he or she would say it. "Experienced in domains" <-- This phrase didn't strike you as odd? "I am on the hunt for Developer-related position." <-- That could be eastern european, but struck me as Indian. on overreaching: ostensibly this person realized that the community has many technically competent people. Overreaching makes sense when talking to a recruiter. When you are talking with other technical people, just get to the point! No need to say "Health IT" or "Finance" without going into what exactly you did. Finance is particularly bad, because there are many ... for lack of a better term, mindless roles in the major investment banks. But the fourth point really bothers me. If I wanted to be hired as a web dev, I would have a sample up. Something that would show I know what I'm doing. It's not that hard, and the prevalence of free micro hosting like AWS or github pages or nodejitsu renders the economic argument moot. Hell, even a simple twitter bootstrap site would say that he or she knows that it exists.

by saryant 14y ago

niggler 14y ago

on point 1: "API's" <-- this could be sampling bias, but I've never seen an american write it like this (though, to be honest, I've never seen a resume include the abstract assertion that the person is familiar with APIs) "Social API's" <-- If this person used the Twitter API then he or she would say it. "Experienced in domains" <-- This phrase didn't strike you as odd? "I am on the hunt for Developer-related position." <-- That could be eastern european, but struck me as Indian. on overreaching: ostensibly this person realized that the community has many technically competent people. Overreaching makes sense when talking to a recruiter. When you are talking with other technical people, just get to the point! No need to say "Health IT" or "Finance" without going into what exactly you did. Finance is particularly bad, because there are many ... for lack of a better term, mindless roles in the major investment banks. But the fourth point really bothers me. If I wanted to be hired as a web dev, I would have a sample up. Something that would show I know what I'm doing. It's not that hard, and the prevalence of free micro hosting like AWS or github pages or nodejitsu renders the economic argument moot. Hell, even a simple twitter bootstrap site would say that he or she knows that it exists.