What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
In my opinion:<p>- designing your resume<p>- EQ<p>- having a deep, enthusiastic, and genuine interest in some aspect of the company<p>- Think of your resume like a poem<p>- visual representation of their experience/resume<p>These are great criteria for hiring a designer or marketing personnel, but these are TERRIBLE criteria for hiring a <i>technical</i> person.<p>In my fantasy world, a <i>technical</i> resume is in a monospaced font and is eminently readable; I would expect the resume to look good in a code editor.<p>My fantasy applicant would be very precise in the tech they list, and when asked questions, they would gripe about that technology all day long; if they can't complain about its shortcomings and pitfalls, they didn't use it.<p>They would not match the job criteria on the posting exactly, because the criteria on the job posting is for some fantasy developer that doesn't actually exist. I would instead expect them to have figured out the core of the actual stack and list it instead.<p>Sadly, my fantasy world doesn't exist, and we have to pretend we're designers to work around people like this who have no idea how to hire actual technical people.