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That resumes are an objectively bad communication/evaluation tool.

• itsdrewmiller 12y ago
  I think that's a stronger statement than is intended in the article - theoretically if people wrote resumes differently they could be good, but the way they are used now, they are bad. You're providing a theory as to why they are bad now, but not really contradicting anything in the article.
  • TTPrograms 12y ago
    "Resumes just aren’t that useful" "...at the end of the day, the resume is a low-signal document." "Longer-term, how engineers are filtered fundamentally needs to change." The conclusion seems to be that resumes are fundamentally flawed.
  • itsdrewmiller 12y ago
    Probably just arguing semantics at this point. I think "engineers need to all learn how to write resumes differently from how any of them do now" qualifies as a pretty fundamental change. Although I guess you really only need to get the good ones to do it. :-)
    • marcosdumay 12y ago
      From my conclusions, that's also a valid take-away. Looks like it goes both ways. Companies will gain better candidates if they stopped using resumes, and engineers will land better jobs if they started creating resumes that are different from what everybody else writes.