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> Based purely on the responses, who would you hire? Who would you consider for a manager role? Do you even believe this is the same person?

Frankly, neither.

The first is intentionally written to be as dull and disinterested as possible, and so comes off poorly (presumably because it was designed to).

The second is a meaningless out-of-context number and corporate speak soup that doesn't really tell me anything about the prospective hire.

Obviously, this was written by and for executives in product orgs... and maybe it makes more sense there. But I'd balk at hiring anyone who talks like this into an engineering org, even at the executive level.



Yes, exactly... the person I want to hire:

1. First tells me their role/career/place on a team ("I'm a widget frobnicator")

2. Tells me what skills they have ("I specialize in frobnicating mistuned widgets")

3. Tells me what that does for their employers/clients ("We got that big widget over at MegaCorp fixed up")

4. Then puts numbers to it all ("That made millions of users' experience faster and freed up ten thousand servers")

Fill me with buzzwords or BS me with statistics alone, and I'm not interested. Yin and yang go together.




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