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Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by xthestreams »

rand84545 wrote: post #23

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 are the reasons for which you're saying it would be binned?

(I'm asking because I want to understand, I'm not implying you're wrong)

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by quietthrow »

rand84545 wrote: post #23

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?

If you think it’s the company’s loss you are totally missing the point. Due to our economic system and incentives a LOT of companies have gotten “Bill Gates Caliber” people and it’s certainly not the HR or companies loss it’s the worlds and people living in its loss.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by hocuspocus »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #17
ma2rten wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is common in Europe as well.

it's not required but it makes you more considered.

Even in countries where it was the norm (like Germany), this is not really true anymore. For tech positions or anything remotely close, the impact will be zero or even negative, don't do it.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by codeulike »

rand84545 wrote: post #23

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.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by hatchnyc »

gopalakrishnans wrote: post #9
Waterluvian wrote: post #2

Despite it being a violation today, I get the point of wanting to know marital status. But why height and weight?

In India, I remember submitting a passport size photograph with all the resumes I submitted during college/campus interviews. When I moved to US, I realized that was not a requirement.

And yet with the rise of software recruitment platforms this practice seems to be creeping in to the US. Linkedin and Hired for example both "nudge" you to add a photo. From Hired.com: "Adding a photo will help your profile get noticed and improve the likelihood that you receive more interview requests. (Optional)"

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

jarfil wrote: post #24
falcor84 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

;) Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to develop a "manual" typewriter that warns the user that they are about to make a spelling mistake, possibly keeping the whole word in a buffer until they handle the warning. The warning itself can be performed via any means, including but not limited to an electrical zap.

At some point there used to be electric typewriters with a 1 or 2 line buffer that they'd show on a black and white LCD. I don't know whether they had a spellchecker, but it wouldn't be hard to add one.

It would if they didn't have sufficient compute, RAM, ROM.

Something that can buffer and edit 2 lines (~160 byte, and not necessarily 8-bit ones either) does not necessarily want to add hundreds of kilobytes of dictionary and the code to look things up in it.

Re: Bill Gates Resume (1974)

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Post by mlevental »

codeulike wrote: post #35
rand84545 wrote: post #23

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.

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.
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