Resumes are fake

This is one of my favorite Reddit posts of all time:

This resume got me an interview!
byu/AngelinaTheDev inrecruitinghell

TLDR:

• Person couldn’t land a job interview anywhere with their real resume
• Person made a hilariously, ridiculously fake resume which also happens to mention that they worked at Instagram, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Zillow
• Person suddenly has a 90% success rate and lands interviews with companies like Reddit, GitHub, Airtable, GrubHub, Dropbox, etc.

Here’s the Resume:

Literally every bullet point is obviously a prank (and every link is a Rickroll), but 90% of companies they applied to scheduled an interview.

Recruiters aren’t reading resumes. If a real human looks at it at all, they’re glancing at the company names and job titles.

Read the post, especially the screenshots of emails where they again tried unsuccessfully to Rickroll everyone, proving that nobody is clicking those links to your personal website. And if you want to try it for yourself, here’s the original you can copy and alter.

In the words of the poster:

My takeaways from this experiment is that applying for Software Engineering positions is very similar to the golden rule of Tinder:

– Work at FAANG
– Don’t not work at FAANG

/u/AngelinaTheDev