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hiAndrewQuinnyesterday at 5:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

What counts as a keyword here? If you're hiring for a frontend developer and you see e.g. "Redux" do you just can it?


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andsoitisyesterday at 5:21 PM

Knowing or having experience with Redux isn’t going to cause me to pick you over someone else who doesn’t list it for a job where I’m paying you hundreds of thousands of dollars. I look at other skills.

I would not can it in isolation, but if I see a comma-separated list like: “proficient in redux, react, html, JavaScript, sql, kubernetes, word and excel”… then yes, you don’t make the cut.

Or if you list your Microsoft qualifications or your MIT continuing education courses. These are all negative signals.

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tkiolp4yesterday at 5:22 PM

Metrics: I increased retention 2x; I reduced latency from X ms to Y ms; increased slo to 99.999… those are all meaningless. It was in fashion to put such numbers in cvs maybe 5-10 years ago. Not anymore

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