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The lack of imagination here is just staggering. Holy cow. I mean first and foremost you're just getting a link to this directly, who's to say he doesn't also have a RESUME.DOC file that he sends out, including a link to this page?

Beyond that, I feel like this guy just might be looking for companies that are willing to take 60 seconds out of looking through a stack of nearly-identical paper resumes to indulge something a bit different. Maybe this is his way of filtering out companies who would "skip this applicant" because he didn't send in a .pdf resume with a list of buzzwords. And of course this isn't the simplest way to get across the information in a resume... that would just be a well-designed text resume. He's trying to flex his skills and show you what he's capable of, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that he understands that this is not the single most efficient way to get that information across.

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He probably does have a RESUME.DOC file. The point here is that his interactive resume is very likely to reach people who would not otherwise see his generic *.DOC file. It looks like he got some job interviews simply by doing this work, so whether it adhered to your platonic ideal of the perfect resume or not, it succeeded. That's all that matters.

A+ for a solid advertisement for himself.

The point of the hiring process is not to compare paper candidates, but to compare human beings.

It's already a big plus for him, if he sends this online resume only to his own network. The animation clearly pictures his capabilities and indicates the type of people he wants to work with.

The fact that this is on the front page of HN and that you are commenting on it says something about the effectiveness of effort.

It took exactly 22 seconds for the 'loading...' message to disappear. After this, I had to read blinking instructions, then keep pressing the down arrow, which doesn't really qualify as "interactive."

As the information was scrolling through my screen, I found it difficult to read but I didn't want to release the down arrow key because I wanted to be done with it.

Just my experience. My 'UX' experience, unfortunately.

that experience would be infuriating, but FWIW it wasn't mine, and I'm overly-sensitive to that sort of stuff (I never would have waited 22 seconds, or even 10.)

it took 3 seconds w/ cold for me to see the instructions. I scrolled through the experience like I would a normal page (albeit translated to left and right.)

worked fine.

while not my cup of tea, I'm not a visual person, this seemed well done.

yeah, i'm guessing this is horrible on a setup without inertial scrolling.

If he does have a more standard resume, I certainly hope the file is called hisname_companyname_date.PDF, rather than resume.doc.

maybe they just don't want him writing version 2.0 on the clock.

On the other hand maybe writing resume presentations is his favorite home hobby.

That would certainly be an interesting parallel with startup employers' expectations of programmers, who are supposed to craft github repos at home in their spare time to get hired. Really, this is the design equivalent.

There is a link to a .pdf two page resume on his site.

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