Please Read This Post In It's Entirety Before You Send Me Your Resume
written by Steven on September 07, 2007
A few days ago I posted an ad to hire a few more excellent "the Guys."
Please notice I specifically state:
Please do not apply if:
1. You are compelled to send a resume.
Amazingly people keep sending me resumes. Let me ask you all a question: If someone can't even follow that simple instruction, how in the world would they expect me to trust them with my code?
P.S. Allan suggested I post their resumes here, but I resisted.
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Steven Bristol has written code for the past 20 years. He like green vegetables and kittens, oh and butterflies too. He loves to throw ninja stars at his enemies.
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Y’know, I think I had to physically prevent myself from attaching my resume. The only way I managed to resist was by sending my LinkedIn profile instead, which I generally find more useful than a resume anyway.
That is one reason I liked the job post. I haven’t updated my resume since 1998. If you don’t have a resume, you can’t attach one.
The LinkedIn profile did briefly cross my mind, but it looks a little too much like a resume. I decided not to mention it due to fear of a beating. Allan = ex-linebacker…
@Steve but doesn’t a high school gpa matter to you? I was in Latin Honor Society in high school, don’t you care?
@Kiere the only beatings I give are when our guys don’t unit test or use deprecated finders.
@allan -
Great question. I don’t care about GPA. Here is an article from Paul Graham that might help explain why.
However, the fact that one was in the Latin club does make a difference. I am interested in how smart one is and how capable, not how much one can fit in to an “institution.”
@Allan: I feel much safer now since I have never used find_xxxx on any of my projects.
@Steve: That is an interesting article. Of course, having gone to Virginia Tech, I know there is no other school better than us anyway so I have never worried. ;-)
I think I might have been in Key Club when I was in high school. But I am not even sure what that is.
@Allan: You brought up testing. I do the standard unit/functional testing built into Rails, but do you guys use anything more than that? For example, Selenium. I have been interested in learning more about how to use that tool. I am curious if many developers out there are using third-party testing tools to enhance Rails testing.