The programmer created a comic resume full of high-profile titles and keywords: she was answered by well-known companies

A programmer from the United States decided to conduct an experiment to find a job. After several unsuccessful attempts to find a job, she created a fake resume, replete with famous names and brands, as well as unsupported pretentious statements and keywords. What was the result after that, the publication said. AIN.

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Much to her surprise, many well-known companies have responded to this resume, including Atlassian, Notion, AirBnB, Reddit, Dropbox, Robinhood.

She talked about this experiment on Reddit, citing her resume as an example, as well as invites to interviews from well-known brands. The author of the story identified herself as Angelina Lee.

Thus, Angelina decided to check how carefully recruiters read the resume before contacting a person or rejecting him.

To do this, she first compiled a resume that sounds convincing (albeit overflowing with empty and pretentious phrases). Its only oddity is that all the links in it led to the famous clip of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. But to her surprise, she received 90% of the response.

The author did not stop there and decided to create another resume, but this time completely fake. In addition, it is also absurd, generously embellished with loud phrases, well-known brands and names. For example, among the programming languages ​​that she speaks, she pointed out Mia Khalifa, and among the technologies she worked with, VoldemortDB. Her places of work are Microsoft, Linkedin and Instagram. She also wrote that she personally knows Reed Hoffman, the founder of Linkedin.

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The resume contains a lot of humorous phrases about work achievements in the style of “led a team of six people that mined ether on the company's servers, made every effort to ensure that the team members consumed Antarctic coffee, ground to 14-nanometer particles, organized races in bags from under potatoes to increase team spirit, set a university brotherhood record for the number of shots of vodka per evening ”and so on.

Imagine her surprise when such a resume began to receive responses from well-known companies with invitations for an interview. The author tried to draw the attention of at least some to the text itself, and even after that she was called for an interview. And someone wanted to talk even after reading the resume.

Most likely, as the author of the experiment suggests, HR teams do not pay attention to the text, but search for keywords like Microsoft, Facebook, Google (the famous five FAANG companies: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, although Facebook recently changed its name) ...

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To everyone who does not believe in the veracity of such an experiment, the author suggests creating the same resume and see how many answers there will be.

Users, when they learned about this story, suggested that it demonstrates the weaknesses of the resume processing algorithms that are used in large companies.

Some followers also shared similar stories. For example, one of them told about a resume, where there was a position “technologies that I have heard about, but I know almost nothing” - in it the author collected all the known names. And the second suggested a method how to bypass such algorithms: you need to include all the hype words in your resume, but in very small white print: the software recognizes keywords and marks the resume as worthy of attention.

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