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OK, but the other side of that is all of us looking at resumes and going "wow, that's cool that this person built that" instead of "that sounds overengineered and silly".


Well...

1. This is why you ask in the interview about it. 2. I don't know about you, but if I see certain buzzwords, I assume that the candidate merely chases the latest fads and subtract points accordingly until counter-evidence is produced.


Who is "us"? These days if I see things like that on a resume I'm more likely to be skeptical than awed.


The point is the resume building is done for the purpose of impressing the people reading the resume. If it didn't have that effect then nobody would bother resume building.




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