Context: Searching for a new senior level software development job over a 9 week period in summer 2025.

  • Focused mostly on data engineering and backend roles that are in-person or hybrid in the SF Bay Area.
  • Leads from recruiters on LinkedIn were much more likely to lead to interviews+offers.
  • The winning offer came through my personal network.
  • I mostly used Hiring.cafe for prospecting. They’re a scraper with an interface I didn’t hate.
  • Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Ms word recommended really? I went through markdown resume route for simple formatting, but still went with PDF as the norm

    • bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      PDF is a typesetting format. Behind the scenes, every letter is placed on the page at a specific x,y coordinate. parsing text out of a pdf is essentially a series of guesses. sometimes the algorithm guesses wrong. PDF was invented for perfect layouts for printing.

      Word docs are a text-based format. It’s very easy to correctly pull text from a Word doc.

      Why risk an ai parsing a pdf incorrectly? There is no upside.

      • alternategait@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        A word document converted to a PDF maintains the text content. A tagged PDF has the same (plus accessibility to screen readers).