What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
In my opinion:- designing your resume- EQ- having a deep, enthusiastic, and genuine interest in some aspect of the company- Think of your resume like a poem- visual representation of their experience/resumeThese are great criteria for hiring a designer or marketing personnel, but these are TERRIBLE criteria for hiring a technical person.In my fantasy world, a technical resume is in a monospaced font and is eminently readable; I would expect the resume to look good in a code editor.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.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.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.