The link you provided clearly indicates how deceptive this whole thing is. The resume being posted is NOT the resume that got a 90% response rate. The resume that got a 90% response rate had some silly stuff on it, but nothing particularly egregious:

* Experienced software engineer with a background of building scalable systems in the fintech, health, and adult entertainment industries.

* Team coffee maker - ensured team of 6 was fully caffeinated with Antarctican coffee beans ground to 14 nm particles

* Connected with Reid Hoffman on LinkedIn

* Organized team bonding through company potato sack race resulting in increased team bonding and cohesity

Okay some of this is goofy but so what? I'm going to turn down a highly competent software engineer listing experience at Microsoft and Instagram because they organized a potato sack race or mention some obscure coffee brand?

They got a 90% response rate with both versions:

> With that resume, I got a 90% callback rate

> I changed some bullets and adjusted my summary:

> No way I get calls back with this right? Wrong. Again, 90% call back rate

If you’re mentioning making coffee as one of your bullet points for a senior engineering role? That seems pretty fluffy to me!

Much less the ridiculousness of grinding to 14nm particles.

Many developers are silly like that, yes. Many teams think that is fine since they aren't user facing, being silly there wont hurt the company image or anything at all really.

Yeah, "not an asshole" flags go further than you think.

It’s a MOSFET joke.

Hmm, it’s been a while since I’ve been near anything resembling a MOSFET, maybe need a cup of joe to get it!

The point is that she gets called because of buzzwords such as Blockchain and AI and what have you.

If the education and job experience is made up, how do you know you're not getting calls because you sent a fake CV mentioning great education and relevant past jobs?

*FAANG is now MANGA with the FB rebrand

If you’re going to swap Facebook for Meta you must also swap Google for Alphabet

Facebook the company no longer exists, Google still exists as a company. Google simply created a new company to act as a holding company.

Meta (Facebook) is even going as far to change its ticker on 12/1 to reflect the new name.

how about the MAAAN. Because that's who we work for and who is keeping us all in line. Same as it ever was.

Alphabet ticker is still GOOG, while FB will become MVRS. Remember that FAANG is a Wall Street term for high-growth stocks (at the time it was coined)

Come on, maaan.

So ANAMA?

> nobody cares if you have FANNG on it.

They'll care when they get to the offer stage, call up your references, and discover that you didn't actually work at Microsoft.

If the resume scanner is just doing naive keyword scanning, can't you easily insert things that ping the keywords without actually lying about anything?

Deployed software to Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Google Android. Configured firewall to block Facebook and Netflix.

It might be easier just include a list of the buzzwords formatted to use white font so that it's invisible to humans but visible to buzzword-detection bots?

Right, those parts are easy to check so you can assume them to be true and check them later. And then if those checks comes back false you just blacklist this person forever.

You'd think they'd check the applicant's webpage even before that, and find out it'd a rickroll...

It's not that no one cares. It's that no one (or their algorithms) actually read anything beyond the headlines.

I would call that not caring.

There are lots of human-in-the-loop systems with algorithms involved. People deeply care about those systems.

To be more precise, they “don’t care” that the system produces false positives. Did you consider they made this decision with full knowledge of the trade offs?

> Did you consider they made this decision with full knowledge of the trade offs?

Yes, that would be my general assumption. Why wouldn't i think that?

They are still not caring about a large part of the contents of the resume. Whether that's good or bad, whether they thought long and hard or made that decision on a whim, is totally irrelavent to whether they care about the info in question.

I'm browsing these comments having only read the headline of the OP.