Re:Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs
by user5994461 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:57PM
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- Put down debugging time from hours to minutes, by improving developer tools.
- Automated the manual week-long test and QA procedure for critical aerospace devices into a daily 1-hour automated routine.
- Increased application performances by over 9000%, allowing us to save 1M million a year in AWS server costs.
- Ensured we delivered consistently and with due diligence, every single day, month over month, to our 586 millions users.
- Interviewed and graded 23 candidates.
# Typical stuff you'll find in my resume.
As you can see, there are plenty of numbers to talk about, no matter your position. Costs, time, users, revenues, latency, percentage, improvements, progress, duration...
You just need to think harder about what you've done and put numbers on it. ;)
It doesn't have to be perfect, approximate and round if you have too.
- Automated the manual week-long test and QA procedure for critical aerospace devices into a daily 1-hour automated routine.
- Increased application performances by over 9000%, allowing us to save 1M million a year in AWS server costs.
- Ensured we delivered consistently and with due diligence, every single day, month over month, to our 586 millions users.
- Interviewed and graded 23 candidates.
# Typical stuff you'll find in my resume.
As you can see, there are plenty of numbers to talk about, no matter your position. Costs, time, users, revenues, latency, percentage, improvements, progress, duration...
You just need to think harder about what you've done and put numbers on it. ;)
It doesn't have to be perfect, approximate and round if you have too.