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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.
Height, weight, current salary? Were these things you commonly kept on your resume in the 1970s? I honestly can’t imagine listing any of that today.
Marital status too...
In the 70's, people speaking against race discrimination were viewed as center left but people decrying discrimination on these other grounds were considered far left. Even on otherwise "progressive" period TV shows, these positions would be satirized (eg the characters played by Beatrice Arthur and Rob Reiner were satires much of the time. The Mary Tyler Moore character was originally written as a divorcee)
And though legislation had recently curtailed ethnicity and religion from being _publicly_ discriminated, it was still seen as ok to discriminate for public facing positions: Connie Chung's position as news reader was considered definite proof of media liberal bias. Indeed, advocating equality for public facing positions or for persons with disabilities was viewed as completely unrealistic.
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.
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?
What do you mean? In 1974 this would have been a state-of-the-art resume. He typed it on a typewriter, and he's got loads of experience with computers. In 1974 thats really going to stand out.
- not mentioning highschool graduation year (But I suppose this could be hidden in the bottom)
Both these things, I've seen and heard HR employess toss CVs over in real life as well as from people talking online.
But I guess, I migh've been too biased in what I'm saying. since I'm european so there a different standards for resumes.
I've had an argument this week with the head of HR, because an employee threw the cv of a work student which had a Lüke ( a hole) in his resume. I guess I was overprojecting, which made my message too overexagerated. sorry.
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Now it's personal pronouns and gender. Seeing more and more on resumes. I didn't ask if you were "genderqueer", don't care and it has nothing to do with our open front end dev position.
wow you sound pretty aggressive about something that is quite innocuous.
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What do you mean? In 1974 this would have been a state-of-the-art resume. He typed it on a typewriter, and he's got loads of experience with computers. In 1974 thats really going to stand out.
this person is pulling out the old saw of "no mention of new sexy technologies like node graphql etc" about resume from a 1974 Harvard student. lol. newsflash those were all hot tech in 1974 and besides any year in the last 100 (including 2019) a Harvard student gets priority rather than binned.
> newsflash those were all hot tech in 1974 and besides any year in the last 100 (including 2019) a Harvard student gets priority rather than binned.
I'm european, so I don't really see that many harvard grads. But everythign being equal, why would I give a harvard grad priority over someone from L'X, ETH, mines, oxford, MIT..
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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.
As a data point, the University of Waterloo releases data about hourly earnings for students enrolled in the co-op program. The first co-op term for students in Mathematics (the faculty Computer Science is under) is typically taken after completing 2-3 semesters of schooling. According to the data for students doing internships in the United States, the average first year Computer Science (or more accurate, first yea…
(This doesn't disqualify any of what you said; it's just worth pointing out for those who are unfamiliar with the program.)
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Any success getting a job after mentioning it?
Not OP, but i dont think they would have an issue getting hired at any good tech company worth working for because of that. As an anecdote, last year we hired a woman who outright told us she would like to start working next month, but then would immediately need to take 4-6 months off for a paid parental leave, as she was due somewhat soon (i forgot whether we provide 4 or 6 months; i think it is 6, but i dont remem…
