Re:Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet ...
by swiftcoder on Thursday July 15, 2021 @12:01PM
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> but what about the engineers who conduct technical interviews?
You will be lucky if they read your resume at all, and when they do, it'll likely be on their phone as they walk down the hall to the interview room.
Resumes are mostly to get past the HR filter, and maybe impress the hiring manager - the engineer interviewing cares how you perform in the room itself.
Also at a lot of big companies, interviewing is not for specific teams, so the odds of someone they haven't specifically headhunted ending up on their team is low.
You will be lucky if they read your resume at all, and when they do, it'll likely be on their phone as they walk down the hall to the interview room.
Resumes are mostly to get past the HR filter, and maybe impress the hiring manager - the engineer interviewing cares how you perform in the room itself.
Also at a lot of big companies, interviewing is not for specific teams, so the odds of someone they haven't specifically headhunted ending up on their team is low.