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Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by sdoering » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

stuff4ben wrote: post #14

So... smart and gets things done. Honestly that's all I look for on a resume. You also have to talk about it in an interview. I couldn't care less if you can invert a binary tree. One of the greatest developers I've ever worked with, I hired straight out of college. He graduated with an electrical engineering degree but his senior year he took a course in Java and liked it and decided to be a programmer. Couldn't tel…

I just came of a call with a a potential hire. I recommended her to a second round because of three things:

* She would culturally fit while still bringing something new to the tam * She doesn't know Web Analytics, but has done market research, built html prototypes and has basic knowledge in JS, python, html, SPSS and some other things * She is self motivated and shows this because she actually learned all these skills in her last job because she wanted to and it made her job more easy.

I strongly believe she would learn the technical ins and outs of Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics quite fast. The rest is not important.

I don't care that she has not worked with AA oder GA. If it were my decision I would have hired her on the spot.

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by josefresco » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

jb1991 wrote: post #4

It’s come full circle. I’ve often heard people (working developers) say over the years that software engineers are basically just digital plumbers. And the job often feels that way. Now we have proof that the skills do in fact overlap quite a bit with plumbing.

My old boss (web development) said in 2003ish that "we're just plumbers" and at the time (I was young) it offended me as I thought as "technologists" we were "special". When I went out on my own, I realized he was right.

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by mattnewton » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

JshWright wrote: post #28

"Until I met Daniel, I actually didn't know that "smoke testing" was a term with a literal smoke-related meaning. I'd always heard it used in the context of software tests. Daniel used a tracing technique to follow a problem to its source, instead of just making random guesses." I've always known "smoke testing" to refer to the mythical magic smoke that makes all electronics work. Smoke testing is turning something o…

This- I knew the electrical sense that early software engineers working on hobby computers probably got it from, where it refers to wiring something up, plugging it in for the first time and seeing if it lights on fire / creates smoke.

I guess there is a dual origin though

https://medium.com/@AikoPath/about-the-origin-of-smoke-testi...

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by sdoering » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:34 PM UTC

wpietri wrote: post #17

engmgrmgr wrote: post #11

It’s a small sample size, but highly motivated self taught folks who come from tough blue collar careers that I’ve seen have been pretty reliable and committed. I presume it’s a lot easier to appreciate the working conditions and compensation package, as well as tolerate the political dramas, when you have some perspective on how life is for most other people.

For sure. My summer jobs were in restaurants and factories. It deeply shaped my notion of what work is. It's been a long time, and I'm still excited I get to work from my house basically solving puzzles. It has downsides, though. One thing you learn in blue-collar businesses is that the direct work is primary, with other stuff secondary. In a restaurant, nobody shuts down during the lunch rush to talk with everybody.…

Oh wow. Thanks for the distinction. This cleared up something for me that was knocking in the back of my mind.

I had the same feeling having had a lot of blue collar jobs while studying. Discussions/management was scheduled around getting work done.

I was working as a cook once and the real chef (I was studying literature and history at that time) and I were doing reviews of the evening after the kitchen was closed, cleaned and we were sitting at the bar drinking our one final drink of the evening. It was a little bit like a sprint review with the sprint being just an evening long. Sprint planning so to speak happened before guests arrived and the restaurant opened.

We prepared the kitchen, chopped stuff for salads, prepared sauces and stuff and were discussing who would do what when the rush started. So even without knowing the actual ordering of dishes and the amount of every specific dish we roughly knew what to expect (how many orders aka tickets we would have in the sprint/evening).

So we had a sprint planning, a sprint and a (internal) review. And our service people would give us feedback on what went well and what went wrong also, because they had the direct guest feedback.

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by darkteflon » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:38 PM UTC

vishnugupta wrote: post #26

jb1991 wrote: post #4

It’s come full circle. I’ve often heard people (working developers) say over the years that software engineers are basically just digital plumbers. And the job often feels that way. Now we have proof that the skills do in fact overlap quite a bit with plumbing.

> digital plumbers. I had this realization over last one year, after 17 years of professional life. Most of my work these days involves plumbing together right libraries and data pipelines to automate business processes. Sometimes I need to fix an existing plumbing to plug a leak here and there. Now my Twitter handle says Plumber

I’ve always liked Joel Spolsky’s “duct-tape programmer”.

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by madflame991 » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:39 PM UTC

JshWright wrote: post #28

"Until I met Daniel, I actually didn't know that "smoke testing" was a term with a literal smoke-related meaning. I'd always heard it used in the context of software tests. Daniel used a tracing technique to follow a problem to its source, instead of just making random guesses." I've always known "smoke testing" to refer to the mythical magic smoke that makes all electronics work. Smoke testing is turning something o…

Tangential-ish:

I used to live in a place where we had gas resources and gas stoves. Gas pipes would be painted yellow to stand out and people always had some sort of respect and caution around them - you don't mess with gas pipes - I learned that as a kid. At the slightest whif of gas people would light up a match or a lighter and run it along the pipe to check for leaks - I always thought this is what "smoke testing" meant (altho there would't be any smoke). I still don't know if this is safe or would even work or it's just something people did and keep doing... and I have no gas pipes around me anymore.

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by Imnimo » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:41 PM UTC

drcode wrote: post #16

The best college application is still from Clyde Tombaugh, who was able to put in "discovered Pluto" when he applied.

Best grad school application is maybe John Nash. His recommendation later just said that "he is a mathematical genius".

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by jacurtis » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:50 PM UTC

mnw21cam wrote: post #5

zohvek wrote: post #2

Was really hoping an article titled 'the greatest resume I've ever seen' would show me the resume... darn

In fact, it doesn't look like anything is being resumed at all. He's switching to a different job sector, not resuming the old one.

This might be a confusion around a cultural translation. "The Greatest Resume I've Ever Seen" is referring to an American "Resume" which is what we call our CV (Curriculum Vitae). In the US we use the word "Resume" to describe this 1-2 page document that outlines our skills, job history, and qualifications in order to apply for a job.

So for example in the post, this is the Resume/CV that they are referring to: https://dsresume.com/

So it isn't referencing the verb "to resume", but is instead referencing the noun "Resume", which is an American colloquialism for a CV, which is to be a piece of literature to describe qualifications for a job.

While I am American, i lived in France and England for a while and over there, the term "Resume" was completely foreign, but CV was something everyone understood. So that is why I thought I would shine light on this.

(Unless maybe you were meaning to make a joke, sorry I took the question literally)

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by throwaway212135 » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:51 PM UTC

When viewing the resume, Safari crashes when the browser is minimized/scaled down.

Re: The greatest resume I've ever seen

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Post by NikolaeVarius » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:55 PM UTC

JshWright wrote: post #28

"Until I met Daniel, I actually didn't know that "smoke testing" was a term with a literal smoke-related meaning. I'd always heard it used in the context of software tests. Daniel used a tracing technique to follow a problem to its source, instead of just making random guesses." I've always known "smoke testing" to refer to the mythical magic smoke that makes all electronics work. Smoke testing is turning something o…

I dont know what the person could have possibly thought smoke testing meant, without realizing that literal smoke used to be involved. What the fuck is happening to "engineering"