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Re: Why I hate you because of your resume

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Post by Varcht »

moron4hire wrote: post #7
Varcht wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really depends on the position to be filled. Recently we let go a senior member of our 6 member team. We really could not afford any more down time and needed someone with a pretty exacting skill set. After a blistering 35 interviews in 2 weeks I found 2. I'd say more often than not there is the person you are looking for with the right experience.

If your schedule is that tight, you've already failed.

I don't thinks that's true but this episode has burned through about 2 man months and we needed someone that could get up to speed as quickly as possible. He starts tomorrow so too soon to know how that goes. This is not our usual M.O. but this is a replacement and the rest of the team is booked.

Re: Why I hate you because of your resume

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Post by tptacek »

Varcht wrote: post #11
moron4hire wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your schedule is that tight, you've already failed.

I don't thinks that's true but this episode has burned through about 2 man months and we needed someone that could get up to speed as quickly as possible. He starts tomorrow so too soon to know how that goes. This is not our usual M.O. but this is a replacement and the rest of the team is booked.

Look, shit happens, and handling it is part of being a professional. It's silly to ding you at this point for having to recruit under time pressure and artificial constraints. You play the hand you're dealt.

On the other hand, let's nobody pretend that time pressure and artificial constraints are good things, or a natural part of the recruiting process.

Re: Why I hate you because of your resume

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Post by matryoshka »

moron4hire wrote: post #6

Look, I'm not a huge fan of resumes, either, but if your suggested alternative is "beef up your LinkedIn profile", then I submit you've not got a single clue what you're talking about. This is bolstered by the fact that you apparently still think "hitting the ground running" is a thing that exists in the world. I will enjoy hiring the good developers that you've missed, just because you think PHP is some magical lang…

LinkedIn is a great professional platform for sales and marketing people. Not so much for developers.

Re: Why I hate you because of your resume

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Post by moron4hire »

matryoshka wrote: post #13
moron4hire wrote: post #6

Look, I'm not a huge fan of resumes, either, but if your suggested alternative is "beef up your LinkedIn profile", then I submit you've not got a single clue what you're talking about. This is bolstered by the fact that you apparently still think "hitting the ground running" is a thing that exists in the world. I will enjoy hiring the good developers that you've missed, just because you think PHP is some magical lang…

LinkedIn is a great professional platform for sales and marketing people. Not so much for developers.

Yeah, it's a great tool for marketers... to market themselves... to other marketers.

Re: Why I hate you because of your resume

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Post by danielweber »

workaholic wrote: post #3
tptacek wrote: post #2

This person is the problem with tech hiring. "You've been working in some crappy language for years, but not my crappy language?" "You've never even heard of one of the tools we use to organize our code?" "I want someone who can hit the ground running, because I am delusional about my prospects of finding talent in this market".

Agreed. After reading this piece I can safely say the writer is somebody I would never want to work for. I can only hope this level of antagonism never flies in tech.

I don't like countering "if you do X I will not hire you" with "well, if you do Y I will never work for you." It seems we are all desperate for some way of controlling the sucky job market and so we resort to threats like this.

That said, this guy is exactly why I've worked to excise all references to PHP development from my resume. The employers in PHP development world seem top-heavy with clowns. I once got rejected because a potential employer wanted someone "really strong" in PHP and I wasn't "really strong" because at my then-current job only 50% of my development work was in PHP, the rest being in C and Ruby. Boy did I dodge a bullet with that one.

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