Thanks for Submitting Your Résumé to This Black Hole
The issue here is that it&#x27;s very, very difficult to figure out if someone can code, at all, from a resume. You might have a masters in CS and still be hopeless when it comes to actually writing even very simple things. You&#x27;d be surprised at how often that is the case...<p>So, when I hire, I do so through through connections. I ask friends &quot;Do you know anyone who can actually code who is looking for a job?&quot;<p>And if it&#x27;s just me, that&#x27;s the end of it, but... let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m hiring for a venture-backed firm, or for a department in a bank or something. In that case, I have a fiduciary duty to put a job ad out there, and I have to be able to show that I received a lot of resumes and &quot;looked them over.&quot; By which I mean unceremoniously threw away. Who has the time to look over 1,000 resumes, most of which are complete bullshit?<p>I was going to hire my friend&#x27;s friend anyway, but I had to solicit your resume along with many others to provide some cover. I threw your resume away without glancing past the education section (if you had gone to an Ivy I might have looked twice.) Capisce?