This is brilliant: Software engineer got tired of getting rejected by automated screeners and tested a theory. Real resume: 0% success Obviously fake resume stuffed with buzzwords: 90% success rate Calls from from Notion, AirBnB, Reddit, Dropbox, Robinhood, etc

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heres the source for everyone asking. you can judge for yourself reddit.com/r/recruitinghe… posted this before i went to bed, didn’t expect this to blow up, sorry for the delay…

@Coding_Career Making a successful CV

@Coding_Career I don’t understand. Are the companies listed on the resume real? The buzzwords don’t matter: in the descriptions. Someone who worked at Instagram, Zillow, LinkedIn, Microsoft *will* get callbacks from almost any company regardless of buzzwords. Saying this as a hiring manager.

@Coding_Career wohow!

@Coding_Career 69% faster page loads. Nice.

@Coding_Career Are there more details available for this? I’m a bit skeptical.

@Coding_Career "NodeJS Tensorflow Ethereum model" 💀💀💀

@Coding_Career Found the Reddit source, user created 2 days ago, only post is that one, actual content never shows the big names in the headline. Am I saying this is false? No. Am I saying it looks suspiciously fake? yes

@Coding_Career @dannysteenman Its more shocking that not one human has read the resume before calling.

@Coding_Career And where is the screenshot of the “real” resume? Hard to compare the unpopular real one with the popular fake one if not being shared 🤷‍♀️

@Coding_Career I once went thru an entire interview loop and passed, but was told I wasnt a fit because the HM only looked at my resume at the onsite for the first time. They wanted a Sr SWE, and even tho I passed their LC q’s they didnt realize I was a jr applicant 🥸

@Coding_Career Also kinda funny that Voldemort is actually a database used by LinkedIn project-voldemort.com/voldemort/

@Coding_Career coming out of a big tech company I can confirm, hiring tech talent is broken.

@Coding_Career Zero sum game... If you are honest, you cant get in, if you are dishonest, you dont know what to do once you are in

@Coding_Career It's funny how massive are holes in the recruitment processes. Still, this approach has 0% chance of success once an engineer looks at the resume. Imo, having a referral is probably the best way to escape the automated CV reviews.

@Coding_Career I recently applied for a position - cutoff was Friday at 9:00pm - got a reply early Sunday that they got "an overwhelming response" and after "careful review" I was not being considered. I replied with this:

@Coding_Career "This is brilliant" Yes, but also quite sad, isn't it? Says a lot about how broken the recruitment process is, in general, despite multiple tweets from multiple founders here almost every day about how recruiting is difficult & needs some change.

@Coding_Career Resume algorithm doing to resumes what youtube algorithm is doing to videos

@Coding_Career It’s not the buzzwords that are getting the recruiter callbacks. It’s the big tech companies on the resume and senior titles. Change the companies to no-names and look at the results again.

@Coding_Career So a dev could stuff the same keywords in a real resume and make them the same color as the background. Bots would invite him/her to interview. The human would not see the keywords (unless they selected the text).

@Coding_Career Is it possible you were talking to an AI via email? Those responses seem sus af.

@Coding_Career > 69% faster page load times Nice

@Coding_Career "spread herpes STD to 60% of intern team" 🤣🤣

@Coding_Career Uh, the reason he got callbacks is because he falsely indicated he worked for Instagram, LinkedIn, etc etc. That is what generates the callbacks.

@Coding_Career This is brilliant: Software engineer got tired of getting rejected by automated screeners and tested a theory. Real resume: 0% success Obviously fake resume stuffed with buzzwords: 90% success rate Calls from from Notion, AirBnB, Reddit, Dropbox, tc

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@Coding_Career Nothing has changed in 25 years! I rewrote my resume in ‘94 to be more searchable on advice that they (recruiters) were scanning in resumes with OCR and just doing keyword searches. That was when they still told you to use nice, heavy paper (with gravitas!) to get noticed.

@Coding_Career "Antarctican coffee beans".... Nice

@Coding_Career recruiting is a shitshow

@Coding_Career Strategy that I have seen is to cut and paste the job description into 2pt white font in the margin of your resume.p so it is only visible to the algo. Perfect match for the screener S/W. Is that stroke of genius a hire or a pass?

@Coding_Career Brilliant and sad. It highlights the unintended consequences of the rise of automation, ML and ‘AI’. As someone working in the field, this keeps me up at night.

@Coding_Career @gptbrooke more inspiration for ingroup jobs project!

@Coding_Career Experiment 2 :Keep the same stuff and just change the company names to Tier 2/3 , see if you get call backs. I bet most recruiters might be just seeing the company names , nothing else..

@Coding_Career @beesmygod_ Gotta love all the replies like "Heh... Have you ever considered that these systems are... designed to be dogshit? Checkmate."

@Coding_Career @ConceptualJames I'm very excited that people with double-digit-I.Q. jobs, such as 'software engineer', are just getting around to realizing this. Employers like to complain that they cannot find quality employees, yet this is an example of their hiring process.

@Coding_Career My boss once told me he worked at Microsoft as a janitor. How is that for experience?

@Coding_Career The best take so far has been “this is just how recruiting works”.