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Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by lrem »

scarface74 wrote: post #16
lrem wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also: this one is more present today. I can just not mention I'm married, while still reaping the benefits of being attractive.

True. But I do just the opposite. Even though they aren’t allowed to ask me if I am married, I go out of my way to mention off handedly that I am married. I want them to “discriminate” against me if they have the type of culture that expects people to work for 60 hours a week regularly.

Hehe.

I've been going around telling how my wife is nine months pregnant, asking how the paternity benefits are.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by rand84545 »

I'm amused that such a resume would be binned by many HR departments.

That is some HR depatments, are so bad at their job, that they will literally lose your company the chance to get a Bill-gates-caliber dev.

I mean obviously if he gets to the technical interview, an engineer can see that he is competent. But they question is would such a resume get past HR?

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by jarfil »

falcor84 wrote: post #20
rb808 wrote: post #11

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Given the dents for punctuation I'm thinking it was done on a manual typewriter, which its very hard to integrate with a spellchecker. :)

;) Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to develop a "manual" typewriter that warns the user that they are about to make a spelling mistake, possibly keeping the whole word in a buffer until they handle the warning. The warning itself can be performed via any means, including but not limited to an electrical zap.

At some point there used to be electric typewriters with a 1 or 2 line buffer that they'd show on a black and white LCD. I don't know whether they had a spellchecker, but it wouldn't be hard to add one.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by bdcravens »

zabzonk wrote: post #6
JBiserkov wrote: post #4

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Same as "dubugging". It's a typo. Should be "involved" ('c' is right next to 'v' on QWERTY layouts, it's weird, I know).

There were not too many spell-checkers around in 1974.

You were the spell checker, and had to get out the correction tape.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by codysan »

gopalakrishnans wrote: post #9
Waterluvian wrote: post #2

Despite it being a violation today, I get the point of wanting to know marital status. But why height and weight?

In India, I remember submitting a passport size photograph with all the resumes I submitted during college/campus interviews. When I moved to US, I realized that was not a requirement.

Is this for security or something?

There are listings on Craigslist that once you express interest in, they request photos of you. I always just assume these are fucked up or scams.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by bdcravens »

lrem wrote: post #7
zabzonk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were not too many spell-checkers around in 1974.

Also: even if you noticed your printout trip have a typo, you were more likely to go "ah feckitt" due to the hassle of getting a new one.

You could correct errors using correction tape: basically pressed dry white-out atop the letter, assuming you lined it up correctly and pressed the same letter - you then type the correct letter. Of course for an important document like a resume you may want to retype the whole thing.

Also it wasn’t really a “printout” since you saw each letter as you typed it.

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