[HN Gopher] My job search story
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My job search story
Author : romafirst3
Score : 80 points
Date : 2023-08-19 00:14 UTC (22 hours ago)
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| rvba wrote:
| This CV is such a joke. Even the 4th version looks like crypro-
| bro bullshit.
|
| As a start: despite what people say, there are lots of "CEO"
| roles. If you are a sole entrepreneur, you are a CEO too. CEO of
| yourself. There are also lots of small companies that have few
| people. I dont say it is an easy job. I want to say that later
| lots of them try to sell themselves as CEOs of multimillon
| companies. Which often is not that harder but this is not my
| point.
|
| We have this guy with no education who spews more buzzwords than
| cryptobros. It is on MLM level of cringe.
|
| The so called CEO "reached a record GMV, EBITDA and net profit".
| What does this even mean? Record? Is it 1 million? 10 millon? 50
| billion? Since we have no number then it sounds like someone
| making up things. Btw. A "real" CEO would know that tons of data
| is public so you can show it.
|
| 180% yoy growth is a miceo company that sold 2 shovels instead of
| 1. 200% yoy growth.
|
| Such empty comments show the guy is not a serious person.
|
| Net profit YoY growth 15% and 60%. So he worked there for 2
| years? Or 11? Is he lying?
|
| He gathered a team. A team of how many? Someone managing 20
| people would say it. Someone managing 1 - 2 wont say it.
|
| Virtual salad bar... and a word salad. Does the guy think that
| those buzzwords convince anyone?
|
| I could write more, but why bother.
|
| This all sounds like MLM scam trying to find investors.
|
| Also any real CEO (or manager) knows that people lie on their
| CVs. How many CVs did the guy really see?
|
| Is this some satire? Some chat GPT generated content, where the
| prompt was set to sound like a crypto bro?
| sassifrass wrote:
| I truly feel for the author and the emotional toll these past few
| years must have taken on him. And as others have pointed out, the
| market certainly isn't what it was a few years ago for any job
| seeker in the "tech" industry.
|
| But reading both the write up, and the various versions of his
| resume left me immediately with a sense of genuine anger - not
| for the situation, but at the author. As a somewhat self
| reflective person this naturally caused me to seek the source of
| this visceral reaction, and the conclusion I've come to is
| something nobody must have told him, or he was simply unwilling
| to hear. The problem here is his language / presentation. Now, I
| don't mean his command of the English language, which is
| certainly quite good (especially considering that the author is
| likely multi-lingual, and English may not even be his native
| tongue).
|
| As someone who has been working with seasoned executives for
| multiple decades, what struck a nerve with me was they nature in
| which the author chooses to express himself. It doesn't "feel"
| like the way a seasoned executive would be expected to write. It
| seems much more like a crypto-bro, or a 20-something year old
| trust fund kid with delusions of grandeur. It's perfectly
| possible the author is a genuinely professional, capable, and
| approachable person. But he doesn't come across this way in both
| his blog or his resumes. And the truth especially a marketer
| should know, is that presentation often counts for a lot more
| than content.
|
| Who uses language such as "findictators", "COMB-shape hands-on
| doer" and "Pain Recognition"? And what's with the infinity symbol
| graphic on the first resume? My favorite part is the long list of
| self-described "ABCs of me" at the bottom of the resume. It reads
| like a self-help guru book for business "wannapreneurs" with zero
| actual experience (which is in contrast to him actually having
| experience, and that contrast is the issue). Even the picture on
| top of the blog signals "bro" in every way. The feedback form the
| high-profile career coach was simply code the author couldn't
| decipher - "you have nothing specific to offer" just means
| "you're presenting like you swallowed a dictionary of cool
| business buzzwords which gives you no real shape or form, but
| leaves an impression of self importance and overestimation".
|
| Changing this is incredibly difficult, even more so because VCs
| used to pump funding into plenty of leaders with this kind of
| presentation, which infiltrated social media and normalized the
| appearance. And certainly losing some of the artifice of
| "traditional business" has long been a hallmark of the tech
| industry (I recall a time when Bill Gates was considered "edgy"
| because he didn't wear suit and tie). And authenticity is
| increasingly encouraged and needed in modern business. But even
| then, you need to be able to read your audience, and the author
| simply is missing something there.
| nokya wrote:
| I had the exact same feelings/thoughts reading his post, and I
| genuinely hope I am wrong about them because, if I am right,
| his only way out is to start again from the bottom or launch a
| new company.
| [deleted]
| ulfw wrote:
| Same here. It has nothing to do with the CV. 20 years of
| experience as a Product Management leader. Google, Booking Group,
| Trip Group, SEA, my own startup, Stanford MBA, Berkeley, bla bla.
| Everyone keeps telling me I'd have something in no time. Easy!
|
| I network, I get a bunch of bla bla meetings, the occasional
| 'interview'. Na. It's been a year. One wanted to offer me 80%
| less money. But even they didn't have headcount at the end. Today
| a headcounter from Singapore called me to 'chat' and told me he
| is leaving the industry and the country as everything has doubled
| in price. Why he called me, I don't know. I guess he needed to
| vent.
|
| There's a tooooooooooon of fake job searches out there. A company
| in Australia interviewed me for a CPO role and a friend of mine
| through headhunters. Neither of us got hired. That's fine. Yet,
| no one else either. It's been 10 months. The company isn't REALLY
| looking. Huge waste of everyone's time. They just want to appear
| to be in the position of being able to hire.
|
| Hundreds of applications, intros, talks. I'm a single gay man, no
| family, flexible, can move almost anywhere, can easily do fully
| remote or hybrid, whatever. But na. I got tired. There are no
| jobs anymore for experienced hires (at least for us folks outside
| the US. In my case APAC or AU). I'm in my mid 40s and basically
| forced into (very) early retirement. Trying to figure out
| alternative things to do so I don't get too bored and actually
| bring home some money again.
| amosjyng wrote:
| > They just want to appear to be in the position of being able
| to hire.
|
| Why do they do this?
|
| > There are no jobs anymore for experienced hires (at least for
| us folks outside the US. In my case APAC or AU).
|
| I am having the same trouble, but in my case potential
| employers seem to want something very specific. I have years of
| experience with Scala and the JVM, but not Kotlin? Years of
| experience with Postgres, MongoDB, and Bigtable, but not
| DynamoDB? That's a pass. Or at least those are the stated
| reasons they say to my face. Maybe I just didn't do brilliantly
| enough in the phone screen/interviews.
|
| Across the ocean, I'm hearing from friends in the US that entry
| level positions are impossible to find too. Not a single
| graduate of a coding boot camp cohort has been able to land a
| job since February.
| tennisflyi wrote:
| Same but I'm just a low level IC. Hiring is just broken.
| [deleted]
| Michelangelo11 wrote:
| I'm shocked but not totally surprised.
|
| The job market became awful ~6 months ago in a fairly short
| period (largely because of interest rates IMO). There's just no
| comparison with how it used to be in the zero interest rate era,
| sadly.
| mirekrusin wrote:
| Most companies are currently very likely on hire freeze and
| recent, current or upcoming 10-15% layoffs.
|
| Wait it out or better start your own thing now.
| atrettel wrote:
| I agree with you but with the additional point that this is how
| the job market for many fields has operated for several years.
| Tech has just be insulated until now.
|
| I'm a mechanical engineer and scientist. I've applied to
| hundreds of jobs in the last 4 years. For every 100 jobs I've
| applied to, I've received 13 interviews and 3 offers. 41
| applications out of 100 ghost me and never even reply back.
| This is now a numbers game. Networking helps, but only gets you
| so far in my experience. It may get you an interview, but a lot
| of places have long internal processes that can take months to
| hire somebody as various internal stakeholders examine several
| candidates. I'm not defending the process, since it is a
| complete waste of time for job seekers, but I do want to
| emphasize how this is not new to many fields outside of tech.
| Michelangelo11 wrote:
| Right, sure. I agree that tech had it way easier before the
| interest rate spike. I'd just like to add that it's now even
| worse than that both in tech and also everywhere else (I hear
| stories of people with decent experience and qualifications
| sending out like 500-1000 applications and not getting an
| offer). The job search landscape is just very bleak at the
| moment, no other way to put it.
| atrettel wrote:
| I totally agree! I know people and have heard stories of
| people applying to hundreds of jobs and getting few if any
| responses, let alone offers. I view the process as
| stochastic rather than deterministic, and that is why I
| call it a numbers game. I've applied to many jobs that I
| thought that I would be a ringer for, but end up getting
| ghosted. I try not to overthink it at this point. All that
| you can do really is apply and hope that it works out.
| mirekrusin wrote:
| If you think 1001 top companies have broken hiring process create
| startup that fixes it - as superstar ceo it should be oscillating
| at the top of your list.
| Ilasky wrote:
| One thing that is really touched upon in the article is tailoring
| resumes to the jobs. It's a skill in and of itself and is
| something I've found brings a lot more success when getting call
| backs, in my experience.
|
| However, it's incredibly time consuming to do this for every job
| application. A lot of times, it just hits an ATS system and gets
| trashed before it even reaches a person.
|
| A bit of a self-plug, but I've made Resgen[0] to help with just
| this issue (initially made for myself) - it tailors your
| experiences to the job description to give you better odds of
| actually getting in front of an actual person.
|
| [0] https://resgen.app
| kievfledame wrote:
| Pryvit Ted.
|
| Long morning, so some thoughts that may be of use.
|
| CV: - No real education (this is the U.K.,
| everyone has a degree if they're white-collar); no "MBA
| Essentials" is not a real degree from LSE -- it's more like
| Harvard Extension School or MIT EdX - Too much design
| shenanigans. I can barely make sense of what sort of P&L
| experience you had, much less what you actually did in your
| resume. Are you a designer, an executive, a salesman, or a
| leader? Going for "God Emperor Generalist that can do anything"
| comes off as unfocused. Tailor the resume so it only reflects the
| exact skill-sets necessary for the job at hand (i.e. don't talk
| about developing a GTM strat, if you're looking to be a
| designer). - Too much flourish. This is the U.K. Your
| resume looks like it's trying to scam me. Less color, less stars,
| less fancy gimmicks. - "Developed phygital, industrial
| EdTech platform" -- is this a typo or is this a play on physical-
| digital divide? See point above.
|
| General Strategy: - While "creator economy,"
| "metaverse," and related tech are popular in Eastern Europe,
| they're second-class industries in the first world. -
| Anglosphere has pulled back investing into R&D and so-on. This
| resume and strategy would have worked in the era of cheap money,
| and mania -- but not now. Everyone is more serious, and only
| looking for things that will help them *now* (not years from
| now). - This is not Eastern Europe -- everything is more
| "who you know." Era of "diamond in the rough -- we should take a
| chance and have him preside over important shit" is not now.
| While I can appreciate the marketing strategy here to get your
| name out, it's more important to make long-lasting bonds in these
| times. And for the work you've done, no one is going to put up
| the position in a job portal -- they're going to find someone
| with the requisite skills in their network. - U.K. is not
| the place for your scene. It's stodgy. Sales doesn't work as well
| (see: more relationships). Very few are going to need your
| skills. Spin your experience less into manic "conquer the world"
| and more "didn't rock the boat, but helped many people achieve
| their goals." - CEOs don't need to apply to random job
| postings
|
| You're going to have to take a step down and come back to the
| real world for a few years. A sales gig is the most probable
| outcome for the "here-and-now." Best of luck.
| themodelplumber wrote:
| He should make your reply an attachment to his CV. He'll get an
| amazing job in no time, even if out of sympathy for how he's
| been treated!
|
| You can be direct, gentle, and helpful at the same time. Just
| takes a little creativity...
| orbz wrote:
| At the executive level you stop getting the kid gloves with
| the feedback (no feedback sandwich, no mincing words, very
| direct and to the point). The other thing that happens at the
| executive level is you stop getting direct feedback at all,
| so when someone spends the time to give you some direct
| feedback it is a gift to be treasured. As soon as you find a
| role you're already on a PIP and often times the feedback you
| get will be from your exit interview.
| themodelplumber wrote:
| > At the executive level you stop getting the kid gloves
| with the feedback
|
| Hmm, that doesn't ring true here, I've coached a lot of
| execs and the ones you described are often getting the
| coaching for the very reason that they are too direct! The
| consequences for that are varied and definitely real.
|
| And again, you can be very direct and also sensitive,
| gentle, etc. So it's not like there aren't any options for
| putting things out there in an effective way.
|
| > The other thing that happens at the executive level is
| you stop getting direct feedback at all, so when someone
| spends the time to give you some direct feedback it is a
| gift to be treasured
|
| This would seem to be a pretty logical self-reinforcing
| loop on its own, but again, I have to say that in practice
| it would be quite an exception. There are many, many
| different mechanisms through which executives receive
| feedback.
|
| The exceptions who aren't getting feedback, even in those
| cases, are the execs who are too direct. Why? Because the
| same people are often effectively deaf to feedback.
|
| And so, they tell professional consultants and coaches that
| they'd like to learn to be _more_ sensitive to feedback.
| Their training is nearly the exact reverse of what a lot of
| people think execs want or need.
|
| These kinds of execs often explain that they'd prefer to be
| able to pick up even the subtleties, in a way that a) helps
| them do their job more competently and b) protects them
| from even more critique, which is what some of the most
| direct people out there fear more than anything.
|
| So, I have a hard time buying this as a general principle,
| let alone some given attribute of just doin' business. If
| any given person or commentator is experiencing those
| issues themselves, it's far more likely, in my professional
| experience, that they share the same blind spot that other
| over-direct people have.
| orbz wrote:
| Well I'd certainly love working in whatever industry
| you're in because myself, the myriad of executives I've
| recruited and coached, and my own peer network have the
| completely opposite experience. Getting a coach indicates
| that you're not getting that feedback in your existing
| organization and you have to outsource it.
| themodelplumber wrote:
| Executives aren't an industry, they can come from
| anywhere. From tech to government.
|
| Or both, one client was a government appointee who came
| from an executive position in publishing, she knew she
| couldn't take the same style into a much less private
| organization. Turns out she brought her new understanding
| and style back into private life & business.
|
| If you realize you don't really have to be blunt & jerky,
| even playing the critic archetype isn't so necessary, and
| it's more like a habit maybe, it turns out that this
| realization often opens new life opportunities and mental
| pathways...
| pdimitar wrote:
| As an Eastern European with 21.5y of programming career, I have
| exactly zero clue what do your EE tidbits mean.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| I think parent doesn't know much about Eastern Europe jobs
| market, but makes assumptions, and wrong ones at that. He's
| also wrong about not being able to get a tech job without a
| degree in the UK when by Europeans standards UK is one of the
| most liberal places to get tech jobs without a degree, as
| many other EU countries are a lot more strict about letting
| you in without a degree then the UK, especially if higher
| education is 100% free and everyone has a degree.
|
| He does have a correct point that in this economy, unless you
| already have strong connections inside the company, most
| places are only hiring outside workers for "the trenches" and
| less managers, leaders and visionaries.
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| I agree with you that, logically, it _should_ be the case
| that "many other EU countries are a lot more strict about
| letting you in without a degree then the UK, especially if
| higher education is 100% free". However, my experience as a
| British person (admittedly, sample size of N=1
| participants) is the polar opposite.
|
| During the pandemic, I was offered (by a fellow contributor
| to an open source project) a pretty high-flying role in a
| large semiconductor company. It would be remote-working for
| a technical department which was based in Germany.
| Ultimately, though, I couldn't be employed because the
| _British_ HR department of the company had a policy of 'no
| degree, no job'!
| drc500free wrote:
| Incredibly on-point feedback. The CV is quite unfocused, too
| clever with invented terminology, and vacillates between
| professional and unprofessional. Boiled down to just the
| outcomes it could be solid, but even the "focused" versions are
| a bit all over the place.
|
| Honestly, put all the hours spent on CV design towards trying
| to get coffee with useful people.
| ericjmorey wrote:
| You've put a lot more effort into breaking down a lot of the
| issues than I would have, but my initial thoughts while reading
| the post were very similar to what you laid out. But it's
| almost a disservice to say anything more to this man than, get
| a job in sales.
|
| He should literally forget everything else written and just
| focus on getting a job in sales.
| rvba wrote:
| 'Metaverse' is a joke everywhere.
|
| No serious person believes in that. Maybe some crypto bros.
| confidantlake wrote:
| Having spent some time in Eastern Europe, it is much more "who
| you know" than Western Europe by a mile.
| Narciss wrote:
| Wow, that was hardcore. The hard love was oddly refreshing,
| especially given the razor sharp take.
| jacknews wrote:
| More proof that narcissistic personality disorder is prevalent
| among senior 'leaders'.
| xwowsersx wrote:
| Several potential turnoffs in the (earlier versions of?) resume
| 1) possibly overqualified. Companies definitely do worry that
| someone overqualified will quickly grow bored and leave. Not an
| unreasonable concern 2) some of the language in the resume is a
| bit off-putting. Maybe it's a language issue, but I could see
| "World-Class qualified." and similar statements as coming across
| a bit like a bit of inflated sense of self/ego. I could be
| totally wrong on that, I don't know.
| barefeg wrote:
| I feel like something is missing. I see the positive feedback
| what what about the feedback after rejection?
| hartator wrote:
| > I even decided to get rid of my title as a CEO to not confuse
| hiring managers and decided to name myself a Chief Growth
| Officer.
|
| So, it's reaction was to lie on his resume and he wonders why
| nonody wants to hire him.
| rvba wrote:
| Managers dont hire ex CEOs. They are afraid those will either
| be too good, or hard to manage.
| simple-thoughts wrote:
| I know several blockchain projects that would love you but none
| that can afford you. Market is terrible especially in web3
| gaming. I myself have taken a 97.5% pay cut with my most recent
| position compared to 2020.
|
| Edit for the haters: it's completely expected. In 2020 solidity
| engineers were being offered $1m+ annual base pay packages with
| no takers, since anyone could earn more building something on
| there own. Like it or not more actual utility that people enjoy
| is getting built now that the hype boys are gone.
| rvba wrote:
| A true millionaire wouldnt be afraid to give numbers, not
| percentages.
|
| Serious people know how to calculate percentages.
| syntaxing wrote:
| Assuming you make 30K a year now... that means you made 1.2M
| before
| Cypher wrote:
| I'd hire you if I had money or if I can get a new job myself that
| lets me hire people.
| codeTired wrote:
| The CV looks just awful. I wouldn't want to work with someone who
| showed me such a resume. Absolute buzzword spaghetti. The colors
| and the graphics just scream I peaked in high school.
|
| From my experience people with such resume are low performers
| with focus on marketing themselves.
| Scubabear68 wrote:
| My initial thought on seeing this was "this is the kind of
| flashy, muddled, confusing output I would get if I hired you?
| Pass.".
|
| People very often forget a resume is a form of work product. If
| after reading it you get a bad sense about the person, or still
| have no idea what they are good at, then it's a bad CV.
|
| With of course the caveat that a CV is a marketing tool.
| reisse wrote:
| So, like, the author was trying to find C-level position... in
| Europe... by applying CV and pinging people on LinkedIn? And now
| complaining they couldn't get a job because of job market?
|
| I've seen how European C-level hiring works, multiple times.
| Either there is a really good manager not from C-level who worked
| for multiple years, already has personal connections with the
| board or the owners, and they get promoted when opportunity
| arises. Or there is the guy someone on the board/owner knows, who
| is invited to the CEO position, and who, in turn, invites his
| previous colleagues to other C-level positions. Or maybe there is
| a fund, which owns multiple companies, and this fund moves
| someone from CEO of one company to the board of other company and
| vice versa.
|
| The talent pool for C-level positions is huge, and the positions
| are scarce. Most of them are filled by networking. There is one-
| in-a-million chance one can kick the door with just a CV in such
| way. Especially with a CV of that quality.
| JackFr wrote:
| Have you applied at GoJo/Waystar Royco?
|
| Resume reads like dialog between Tom Wambsgans and Lukas Mattson.
| mattbee wrote:
| I feel you, I am an ex-CEO who didn't network very well when I
| had the chance. I'm at an early stage of a second career in
| engineering after several years break.
|
| The more I write about my CEO/founder experience the less
| valuable it feels, and the more I've condensed it. I don't know
| how much of my thinking applies to your situation. But I worry
| that CEOs naturally come across as jacks-of-all-trades - I
| definitely see that in the mega-graphic on your first CV.
|
| I once advertised a Product Owner position and interviewed an ex-
| CEO / inventor who wanted to tell me all about product sourcing
| in China, the software stack, managing an engineering team etc.
| ... very little chat about the job I'd advertised, which was
| probably my fault for not narrowing the interview earlier.
|
| I remember thinking - I'm sure he can do it, but he's going to be
| a handful. I'm torn between worrying that this was ageism or just
| a bad impression, as if he'd said "I have done much more
| difficult jobs than the one I'm applying for". That is an easy
| impression to make by accident.
|
| Random realisations about my own search:
|
| 1) My previous career led me to being over-familiar, and I'm
| working hard on fixing that without losing (what I hope is) a
| personable voice. That is definitely off-putting to an
| interviewer.
|
| 2) Even the stuff I'm proudest of must will be sotto voce,
| something that an interested interviewer can pick up on among a
| CV ruthlessly tailored for the situation. As a CEO you're used to
| selling everything about yourself; as an interviewee anything
| irrelevant is off-putting.
|
| 3) I have the luxury of not needing a new role soon, so I can
| focus on making enthusiastic applications that I'm really
| interested in. If I made 1000 applications I can't imagine how
| I'd express my any genuine interest in any of them.
|
| Good luck, and please let us know how you get on.
| selestify wrote:
| > I have done much more difficult jobs than the one I'm
| applying for
|
| Why is that such a bad impression?
| drc500free wrote:
| The hiring manager believes that the applicant will get bored
| and leave the moment something closer to their seniority
| level becomes available.
| drc500free wrote:
| A couple takeaways from this post and my most recent search:
|
| * The first versions of the CV are so, so bad. Almost parody-
| level fluff (the rainbow infinity sign is peak CV cringe) hiding
| what should be considered some pretty impressive outcome metrics.
| It would be significantly better if the entire CV was "CEO who
| scaled startup from $XM Valuation to $250M Valuation" in 72 point
| font.
|
| * Applying through the front door doesn't work. Only networking
| is going to get you a job at this level of seniority (and lately
| almost any level of seniority). Tuning your CV is only helpful
| for organizing your thoughts for your elevator pitch.
|
| * Being without a job near the top of the pyramid is very bad,
| and you need a much better story to explain the gap. No one is
| handing you the keys to their company if you seem like a risk.
| "I'm a Ukrainian refugee" is a great story and should probably be
| in there to explain the lack of current employment. Your journey
| of self discovery is a great story to tell after you land your
| next role, not while you're looking.
|
| * Probably most importantly, we've been living in a 15-year tech
| bubble driven by low interest rates and quantitative easing.
| Valuations have been driven by the insane amount of money flying
| around, and those valuations have required zero-marginal-cost and
| infinite TAM to justify the numbers. SaaS, tech, AI/ML are pretty
| much the only stories that can claim to meet the "zero cost,
| infinite TAM" investment thesis. Zero interest rate meant you got
| a super long runway to keep the fantasy going. We have a glut of
| people who can launch and scale tech companies and there aren't
| as many opportunities for that as there were three years ago.
| kcplate wrote:
| > Applying through the front door doesn't work. Only networking
| is going to get you a job at this level of seniority (and
| lately almost any level of seniority)
|
| Every board member at an organization looking to find a CEO
| already knows who they want to put forward or at least talk to
| about the job, they have known from day one that they were
| appointed to the board. Networking with board members is what
| has to happen.
| drc500free wrote:
| Another thing that was tickling the back of my brain while
| reading this was "the failure mode of clever is asshole,"[1]
| which is one of the most helpful blog posts I've come across. I
| personally have to work very hard to mute my initial
| interactions down to what's appropriate for a low-context
| introduction. The oddly coined phrases (e.g. "findicators")
| that others have commented on fall pretty squarely in this
| category.
|
| [1] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-
| of-...
| Michelangelo11 wrote:
| OK I just read the CV and, wow, this is maximum cringe.
|
| Some favorite parts: - "Perfectly designed to kick your
| competitors' asses" - "Jaw-dropping level of systematisation" -
| the row of logos for various corporate buzzwords and concepts,
| two of which are so faded it's hard to tell what they're
| supposed to be
|
| But the absolute peak, the cherry on top, is the claim "Zero
| corporate bullshit" in the section "ABC's of Me" (barf). This
| CV is -all- corporate bullshit down to the last pixel. It's
| like saying The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is PG-13. Like calling
| a ribeye steak vegetarian. Like North Korea calling itself
| democratic. You get the idea.
| gumby wrote:
| > Like calling a ribeye steak vegetarian
|
| TBF the steak is made 100% from a vegetarian.
| Michelangelo11 wrote:
| You have a bright future in marketing (assuming you're not
| working there already).
| mirekrusin wrote:
| Nice one, will steal it on next beer & "veggie" bbq!
| drra wrote:
| Cringe CV aside, author clearly prefers quantity over quality. It
| may work for a dev job but it won't for C-level. What author
| should have done is to select the most promising/aligned offers
| and invest time to analyze the company top to bottom to learn to
| speak the same language (market, niche), discover challenges they
| are facing and work out top executives profiles to better
| understand what they are looking for. Ideally network with top
| execs to get more insights into the company culture.
| madengr wrote:
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| w10-1 wrote:
| At work (and here on HN): deliver, and respect other peoples'
| time.
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