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Re: I wanna work at Instagram

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Post by mrshoe »

To write an effective resume you need to keep the audience in mind. The hiring manager will base about 95% of the decision on the answer to one question: What have you built?

Answers to questions such as "What are your skills?", "What is your philosophy?", and "What is your passion?" mostly just get in the way and waste the reader's time.

A flashy appeal for a job like this one might get the attention of Instagram, but they will not base their hiring decision on that. If the portfolio, which in this case includes the resume itself, isn't impressive work, they will pass.

Showcase your actual work well and present it in the most impressive possible light and employers will take notice even if you don't buy a domain name for every company to which you're applying.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#112

Post by de90 »

kevintwohy wrote: post #103

Wow. Reading the negativity in some of these comments makes me want to think twice about sharing something I've made with HN. That's a bad thing. It's not perfect. It's not the first time anyone's ever had this idea. Maybe you wouldn't hire her. Who cares? Not everyone's running for best-most-perfect-idea-in-the-universe-ever. She made a thing. Good on her.

It's easy to criticize. Surely anyone who does like it doesn't have much to say other than an obvious "it's good".

I don't think it's wrong though that people point out what they don't like, or would improve on. It's doesn't mean the person giving feedback is right, but it does allow the person who created it to take it into consideration.

Honestly, if you get feedback that's 'hard to take' it's probably because you know it needs to be changed.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

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Post by [deleted] »

reason wrote: post #96
crasshopper wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And my question would be, why did it get to the top of Hacker News? I tried making a website like this and failed to get much notice.

Because as many here would probably not like to accept, HNers are just as prone to social engineering as the guy on Facebook who signs up for the app that can supposedly revert his Facebook page back to the old design. HN can be gamed quite easily, for this and other reasons. Since you're near the top of this thread, which itself is sitting at the top of the HN front page, why not link to your site here? I wouldn't m…

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Re: I wanna work at Instagram

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Post by covercash »

fara wrote: post #26
Lewisham wrote: post #9

While I like the initiative, I'm a little worried that someone who says she's a UX designer wouldn't have considered that most Mac users do not run their browsers full-screen, so there's a horizontal scroll bar for anything less than a 1024 width (I think it's 1024). That's not a good UX!

Is the lack of a working maximize button good UX?

Apple doesn't even have a maximize button. I believe you're referring to the green(+) button which is technically called the zoom button. I refer to it as the optimize button since it resizes the window based on the content and when appropriate, will maximize the window to fill the screen. There are a few instances where the button does something completely off the wall, like in iTunes where it shrinks it down to the mini-player. If Apple is guilty of anything, it's not having a consistent function for that button. It's a wildcard.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#115

Post by swix »

dchest wrote: post #95
kenjackson wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, can you point me to your sites design?

Why do you want to look at my site? Will this somehow make my points invalid? :-) Oh, this guy can't design, so no, kerning is right. I'm not a designer, and although I design everything for my products myself, I don't pretend that my design work is good; hell, I know that I lack attention to detail, and I'll be the first person to criticize my work. If you insist, here you go: http://www.codingrobots.com/ (the most…

I don't really think the critique of the lens was valid. I don't see the point, "lack of detail?" Maybe it wasn't meant to have detail in the first place? It's like if I would say that "You only used bewels in PS" for your little "drawing", I mean it's sort of pointless.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

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Post by crasshopper »

mrshoe wrote: post #111

To write an effective resume you need to keep the audience in mind. The hiring manager will base about 95% of the decision on the answer to one question: What have you built? Answers to questions such as "What are your skills?", "What is your philosophy?", and "What is your passion?" mostly just get in the way and waste the reader's time. A flashy appeal for a job like this one might get the attention of Instagram, b…

What about recent grads? Or career-switchers?

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#117

Post by petercooper »

Lewisham wrote: post #9

While I like the initiative, I'm a little worried that someone who says she's a UX designer wouldn't have considered that most Mac users do not run their browsers full-screen, so there's a horizontal scroll bar for anything less than a 1024 width (I think it's 1024). That's not a good UX!

most Mac users do not run their browsers full-screen, so there's a horizontal scroll bar for anything less than a 1024 width

Sure most Mac users don't run full-screen but no Macs from the past few years have native displays limited to under 1024 pixels wide. Even without maximizing, most people (in my experience with running stats on this stuff) run at > 1024. Without pulling out my data, I found a browser width of around 1100-1150 pixels to make up the lion's share of my users.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

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Post by kenjackson »

dchest wrote: post #95
kenjackson wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, can you point me to your sites design?

Why do you want to look at my site? Will this somehow make my points invalid? :-) Oh, this guy can't design, so no, kerning is right. I'm not a designer, and although I design everything for my products myself, I don't pretend that my design work is good; hell, I know that I lack attention to detail, and I'll be the first person to criticize my work. If you insist, here you go: http://www.codingrobots.com/ (the most…

Why do you want to look at my site? Will this somehow make my points invalid? :-) Oh, this guy can't design, so no, kerning is right.

No, it doesn't make it any more invalid. BUT I looked a the lens and didn't see a problem with it, and overall thought the design seemed pretty good. With your critique I was hoping to see what someone with a very sharp eye for design would actually put in production.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

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Post by reason »

So HN: Why does this get voted up because of the hustle and for her actually "doing something", and yet there are Rate My Startup posts of actual somethings that go unnoticed on a daily basis?

Check out the "new" and "ask" pages to help some of those people who've put a lot of effort into their executions by giving them more exposure.

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