I A/B tested applications a few years back, when I was doing the whole interviewing circus, and the ones that were just a list of tools and adjectives were by far the most successful.
Recruiters don't do nuance.
I completely agree.
Job seekers should also understand that once you're past the front door, you should definitely be skilled in nuance as part of the interview process.
For many years I thought I was a dummy for dropping out of college and just having a bad time with school and never getting good grades. Turns out I'm actually very good at math and I just had chronic depression from a bad upbringing. I taught myself calculus and then later, quantum mechanics, out of sheer interest and boredom after I was able to stabilize myself financially.
Had you asked me if this approach would work, I'd have said 'no', so I appreciate the learning.
I'm completely agreeing with you, but I cry a little tiny bit inside. Sad that its this way.
PS don't think it fair that you are being downvoted. You are giving sound advice.
> I'm completely agreeing with you, but I cry a little tiny bit inside. Sad that its this way.
Me too. When did tool jockeying and lib/api wrestling become equivalent to "skilled techie/engineer"? Oh you're into algorithms, programming languages, realtime performance? Pooh-pooh on that, tell me your decades-long "experience" as a [cloud stack X] / [reactive framework Y] / [agile scrum devops continuous integration yadda-yadda Z] .. "engineer". Yeap that's what we call nowadays what you old grumpy neckbeard geek (rather than fashionista bespectacled over-groomed metro "geek") still call inane trivial "habits/rituals not skills".
Rant over =)