What a good developer resume looks like and how to write one - learnings from an Uber Engineering Manager

Your resume determines if you will be called in for an interview or not. It’s an advertisement targeted towards your future boss and it can make or break your application. Yet, most programmers fail to write a good resume! In this episode, you will learn to increases the chances that your resume makes it to the “yes” pile according to an actual Hiring Manager.

Who is Gergely? Gergely is the author of The Tech Resume Inside Out - a highly-rated book about what the hiring process look like inside companies and how to make sure your resume stands out. Before that, he worked as an Engineering Manager at Uber for 3 years.

Timestamps

• Introduction (00:00)
• Most resumes suck so Gergely wrote  The Tech Resume Inside Out (01:27)
• Remember: Your resume is a sales tool (07:52)
• Create a master resume template (14:26)
• The problem with using LinkedIn as your resume (15:20)
• How hiring funnels work from the inside out(18:35)
• Myth-busting Application Tracking Systems (26:20)
• Avoid photos on your resume (35:22)
• Why resumes should look plain Jane (35:25)
• References  available upon request? Obviously  (36:34)
• Internships and Computer Science degrees (36:48)
• Employment travel visa options for new programmers  are few for a reason  (39:12)
• The dreaded reference check (41:29)

Links

• Guest
  • Follow Gergely Orosz on Twiitter
  • Follow Gergely Orosz on LinkedIn
  • Check out Gergely's blog
• Host
  • Follow Alex from Scrimba on Twitter
• Episode links
  • Gergely's book on writing a tech resume