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Re: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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Post by bushbaba »

sergiotapia wrote: post #94
wyattpeak wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One day, long after I'm gone, people will finally accept that Python and JavaScript are no longer young languages. JavaScript is 26 years old, Python is 31. They both continue to grow in importance year-on-year, JavaScript because there is nothing on the horizon which will plausibly replace it, and Python because a large number of industries and programmers genuinely love it. I think there's a nontrivial chance they'…

Why did Python win the war with Ruby? Was it purely the math community deciding this is where we throw our weight and left Ruby the runt of the litter?

Python is easier to use if you come from a C/C++ style coding background.

Re: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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Post by xeromal »

oslem wrote: post #52
jcadam wrote: post #41

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I eventually gave up on Word templates and now keep my resume in LaTeX. Neat and organized - not unlike this example only with more detail and nicer fonts :) Occasionally a recruiter will ask/demand I give it to them in MS Word - I've learned it's always a bad idea to give recruiter a resume in an easily editable format.

I’m assuming you’re concerned with resume manipulation? Or is there another reason you prefer to submit your resume in a non-editable format?

Resume manipulation is actually more common than you think if you go through a 3rd party recruiter, the ones that cold call you for jobs.

They usually strip the content from it and drop it into a container resume that has their details so that they get credit from the hire I assume. lol. That being said, whatever the poster was doing to stop the resume from being edited is moot. They will just copy the content from the PDF and paste it into a new one.

Re: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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Post by QuarterReptile »

taude wrote: post #26
AlmostAnyone wrote: post #16

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I've been to a military museum few days ago and I was surprised how incredibly small some of the cockpits are. I'm 6'3" and wouldn't fit in most of the fighter jets and other vehicles. Not that I wouldn't be comfortable with my legs pushed to something - my shoulders are literally too wide to get in, my thighs/ass are too wide to even try sitting there. Might be a problem for aerospace tech. And don't get me started…

Your comments made me wonder if there were height restrictions, found this verbiage on US Airforce site: "For pilot and aircrew positions, height specifications vary by aircraft and most applicants can successfully pursue a career in aviation with the U.S. Air Force. Applicants who are significantly taller or shorter than average may require special screening to ensure they can safely perform operational duties. Appl…

If you think much about the different platforms, it makes perfect sense that there are specific and varied requirements. Presumably they're pretty flexible about who flies a C-5, considering it's big enough to carry Chinooks or M-1 tanks [0]. OTOH, ejecting out of a fighter jet probably doesn't go very well if your knees are smashed up against the dashboard.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-5_Galaxy

Re: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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Post by aasasd »

noodlesUK wrote: post #40
daveslash wrote: post #24

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I've been reviewing a lot of resume's lately that call out the candidate's exact date of birth and marital status. Many even call out their parents' occupation. I've seen more than one that say "Mother's Occupation: Homemaker" . Although I now realize this is a cultural difference issue, it caught me off guard at first.

Which country/region are these resumes from? I would be very surprised to see something like that on a U.S. or UK resume/CV. I know that it’s quite common for photos and personal details to be on CVs in parts of continental Europe though.

My bet is on India or thereabouts.

Re: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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Post by dspillett »

jcadam wrote: post #78
mikestew wrote: post #68

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Microsoft was known for “why are manhole covers round” and CS trivia before Google was even a company.

Yep, I blame Microsoft. Now these sorts of interviews are done even by companies writing pedestrian web apps that don't require hard-core CS knowledge. Yet they test every applicant on it anyway.

> Yet they test every applicant on it anyway.

If you have enough applicants, why not filter out so you have the best of them? (well, maybe not quite the best, there is some value in having someone less likely to get bored and move on PDQ).

Re: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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Post by bmj »

deeblering4 wrote: post #48
lordnacho wrote: post #27

That job market seems like so long ago. See job ad, type out a letter with your CV, wait for them to write back, somehow organize a time to meet, more rounds, and so forth. At least it must have been hard to spam out CVs. The guy seems pretty hardcore from my perspective. University training for all those techs. Of course hardware back then cost a lot of money so you wanted people who knew what they were doing. What…

Up until the mid-late 2000s tech interviews consisted of a few conversations, followed by checking references. CS trivia interviews were largely introduced by Google, with other companies cargo culting that into their interview practices.

The last "tech" interview I had was in 2007, with my current employer. It was not an algorithmic interview, but rather a deep dive into how much I knew about SQL (which was a critical part of my position at that time), and a bit of general web knowledge. I definitely hit a point where I said "well, I don't know," but managed to get the job anyway.

I had two previous "tech" interviews prior to that. The first was for a Perl shop. All Perl-specific questions, and the interviewer even gave me a copy of the Camel Book to thumb through if necessary. The second was for an MS-based web shop. They sat me down at a computer and told me write a relatively simple C#-based CRUD app. I was allowed to Google whatever I needed. The Perl interview was fairly challenging (I knew parts of the language, but was not an expert), the C# one not so much, but I'm sure it weeded out a lot of applicants.

I've also had three other jobs where there was not a "tech" interview at all, mostly just chatting about projects and whatnot.

Re: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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Post by bredren »

sergiotapia wrote: post #94
wyattpeak wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One day, long after I'm gone, people will finally accept that Python and JavaScript are no longer young languages. JavaScript is 26 years old, Python is 31. They both continue to grow in importance year-on-year, JavaScript because there is nothing on the horizon which will plausibly replace it, and Python because a large number of industries and programmers genuinely love it. I think there's a nontrivial chance they'…

Why did Python win the war with Ruby? Was it purely the math community deciding this is where we throw our weight and left Ruby the runt of the litter?

Growth of data science and AI/ML saved Python from being over leveraged on web dev backends.

I’d say also it was more at war with node until data science took off.

Re: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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Post by aasasd »

haxorito wrote: post #31

In 1980 - I’m expert in those 3 areas In 2020 - I’m aware of about 10000 different technologies but not expert in anything

Eh, I was pumping out PHP+MySQL and a bit of Python until the early 2010s, when a) I went to work on a larger site where disparate specialized tech was used to optimize every part of it, and b) hipster explosion of devops happened.
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