About book Google Resume: How To Prepare For A Career And Land A Job At Apple, Microsoft, Google, Or Any Top Tech Company (2011)
As a 50-year-old (employed) software engineer, I picked this up more out of idle curiosity than for any truly compelling reason, like an imminent job search.If I need to look for a job again, I'll probably revisit this book when I revise my resume, and have to prep for the hated interview process. However, I had some specific problems with the book.It seems *very* focused on recent grads. Nothing wrong with that, or with a book having a specific audience. Where I had more of an issue was with what I perceived to be the emphasis on using technical software skills to enter a company, with the idea that any sensible person would be moving into management as soon as possible. Probably within 2-3 years of hiring, but only a loser would not be a project or program manager (or a VP) within five years. As someone who is perfectly content to finish out my career as an individual contributor, I found the implicit message to be grating. It's not that I lack ambition...it's just that my ambition happens to be in becoming the best possible software professional. I was intrigued to read a book by an author who was in my college classes.The advice in the book was useful and pragmatic. I think the most useful advice was about how to quantify your accomplishments in your resume, making it more concrete and memorable.Two things hold me back from giving the book 5 stars.1. A decent amount of the advice is common sense.2. The book focuses disproportionately on recent graduates and internships (probably drawing from the author's own experience).
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I really enjoyed reading this book.every IT guy should read it before seeking for a job
—marwan91
Covers most aspects of IT interviews. More like slight guidance than reference.
—Sludge
