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Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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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.

Any success getting a job after mentioning it?

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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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?

"I'm throwing this CV away since our requirements clearly state PDP-9 experience and I don't see that mentioned anywhere. I'm also assuming this candidate is unable to learn anything new."

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

#43

Pay attention to the $15K salary he wants- that's about $75K in today's money. Not much has changed,even though companies nowadays make many tons more money from the dev work...

Do a lot of first year computer science students get paid $75k/year?

I know internships can easily earn that but my understanding is they go to 4th year students.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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I don't know how much value there is in this kind of stuff, but I am an absolute sucker for this kind of history. Standard, utilitarian, even boring documents that miraculously survived all this time. Granted it's from one of the most famous programmers ever, but it's just so fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

;) 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.

Except, you'd need ~50KB of ROM to store an English dictionary. This figure comes from the original UNIX spell program, which employed advanced compression techniques to fit into a 64KB memory footprint: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1095395

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Pay attention to the $15K salary he wants- that's about $75K in today's money. Not much has changed,even though companies nowadays make many tons more money from the dev work...

Do a lot of first year computer science students get paid $75k/year? I know internships can easily earn that but my understanding is they go to 4th year students.

Should have been: not much has changed for better..

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

#48

Pay attention to the $15K salary he wants- that's about $75K in today's money. Not much has changed,even though companies nowadays make many tons more money from the dev work...

Do a lot of first year computer science students get paid $75k/year? I know internships can easily earn that but my understanding is they go to 4th year students.

A lot of first year cs students have under a year of experience and can only list python, Java and possibly C++ under proficiencies. What's more sad is when you try hiring at a job fair and 300 4th year / master's students also only have python/Java/C++ with no side projects.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Pretty nostalgic seeing a pre MS giant resume from Gates. Also .. look at how simple a resume is. Raw ascii text, few paragraphs .. done. #dubugging

Raw ascii text

It was typed on a manual typewriter - you can tell by the weight of the punctuation.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Pay attention to the $15K salary he wants- that's about $75K in today's money. Not much has changed,even though companies nowadays make many tons more money from the dev work...

This is the CV of an 18/19 year old, don't forget. In context this CV would have screamed 'whizz-kid' at anyone that saw it.
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