Not abrasive - seemed like a fair comment to me. When you read enough resumes, you'll notice these problems of redundancy and spacing issues. Seeing a documen

Not abrasive - seemed like a fair comment to me. When you read enough resumes, you'll notice these problems of redundancy and spacing issues. Seeing a document that is long just gives that immediate negative impression that is sometimes hard to overcome, just as you might get if you were reviewing code that seems verbose - it doesn't mean that the code is always horrible, but you can probably determine that some of it is at least unnecessary to perform the task at hand. I don't immediately dismiss any resumes, but some do. I rarely get one page resumes, but when I do it tends to be a strong candidate - I'd be lying if I didn't notice a correlation between interview success and resume length, at least for candidates of similar career levels. As I said, resume length just seems to create an immediate negative. 1 or 2 pages doesn't create that feeling, and even 3 can be tolerated. You'd probably be astonished at how many 5 page resumes I get from people with 2 or 3 years of overall industry experience.