Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

Re:Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (... by dikdik on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:17PM (#11130170)

I thought this too. But I am in the middle of my job search (applied for several on the ASK HN thread) and the calls I have received back are for jobs I did not write a cover letter or at most a paragraph that I sent with my resume.

The two companies where I spent almost a week each writing a cover letter and editing it until I thought it was perfect, have not even bothered to send me a "not interested." Obviously anecdotal, but not sure if I will continue to put in that effort as it does not seem to make a difference for me.

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Re:Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (... by soared on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:49AM (#11131861)

I've had the same experience. Written ~10 unique cover letters (for positions I really wanted), done a couple 'practice problems' but the only positive responses have been from 4 sentence long emails I sent out to people who posted on Ask HN.

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Re:Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (... by pinewurst on Thursday February 18, 2016 @08:36PM (#11130910)

I'm in the midst of the same process and have observed exactly the same.

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Re:Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (... by dikdik on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:24PM (#11171079)

Well now I have to eat some crow. I ended up hearing back from one of these companies a couple days after my original comment. It was very positive, too! Hang in there, my friend, need lots of patience for this.

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