EP916: FAANG, Fintech, and Fraternities: My Unbelievable Journey as a Software Engineer - r/BestofRedditorUpdates Reddit Story
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🗓️ 21 May 2023
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r/BestofRedditorUpdates - OOP wasn't getting job offers with her resume, so they create a troll resume and get a 90% callback rate.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | I got a job interview, but too bad. |
| 0:07.0 | My resume is complete baloney. |
| 0:09.5 | I love telling people. |
| 0:10.9 | I love lying to potential employers. |
| 0:13.3 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:13.7 | I have... |
| 0:14.4 | Those are the people you should lie to. |
| 0:16.1 | I have 20 years of chef experience. |
| 0:18.4 | I have 20 years of lying about my chef experience. |
| 0:41.1 | Wow. Yeah. I think one of the best, uh, one of the, one of the, what are the, I think one of like the best skills you can have actually in life is just being an excellent liar. Oh yeah. Think of Bernie Madoff. Ooh. You know, if he was a better liar, maybe he could have made off with more money. Could gotten away with it. But think of, uh, uh, the guy in talented Mr. |
| 0:56.9 | Ripley, killed two people and made money. Wow. The dream. What a successful, what a successful entrepreneur. Yeah. That's what you got to do. That's what you got to do. Lie, children. This is really great. Currently, this is actually what of the, like, I can't wait to read this to you. |
| 0:58.1 | It's so good. |
| 1:00.5 | Currently, I am a software engineer. |
| 1:05.2 | After getting turned away multiple times, I decided to do an experiment to see if recruiters actually read resumes. |
| 1:08.0 | Hint, they don't. |
| 1:09.4 | Originally, this resume was fairly standard, and I made up some bullet points that sound real, |
| 1:13.7 | albeit it was mostly fluff and buzzwords. |
| 1:16.2 | The only strange part was that all of the hyperlinks Rickroll you. |
| 1:20.2 | So it's like, oh, I created this and it's a link, and it's just the, |
| 1:23.3 | Never gonna give you a. |
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