The resume that got a software engineer a $300,000 job at Google.
这份简历让一位软件工程师在谷歌获得了价值 30 万美元的工作。
1-page. Well-formatted. 1 页。格式良好。
Introduction 介绍
My name is Alex Nguyen and I previously worked as a software engineer at Amazon and Microsoft before joining Google.
我叫 Alex Nguyen，在加入 Google 之前，我曾在亚马逊和微软担任软件工程师。
Above is the resume I used to apply to Google and land an exciting $300,000 offer.
上面是我用来向 Google 申请并获得令人兴奋的 300,000 美元报价的简历。
It’s the resume I like to share working with candidates who are applying for software engineering roles.
这是我喜欢与申请软件工程职位的候选人分享的简历。
But before digging into resume strategies that worked for me, let’s first talk about the elephants in the room.
但在深入研究对我有用的简历策略之前，让我们先谈谈房间里的大象。
Dude. You worked at Amazon and Microsoft.
伙计。您曾在亚马逊和微软工作过。
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Yes, I do have those experiences on my resume. But before Microsoft, I just had Amazon. Before Amazon it was just an empty resume with some side projects.
是的，我的简历上确实有这些经历。但在微软之前，我只有亚马逊。在亚马逊之前，这只是一份带有一些副业项目的空简历。
The experience helps, but nobody starts off having experience. For anyone starting off, the only way to stand out is by having a clean-cut resume.
经验会有所帮助，但没有人一开始就拥有经验。对于任何刚起步的人来说，脱颖而出的唯一方法就是拥有一份简洁的简历。
Having experience helps, but knowing how to present and convey that experience is even better.
拥有经验会有所帮助，但知道如何呈现和传达经验会更好。
You must’ve had referrals, internal connections, or cheated.
你一定有过推荐、内部关系或者被骗了。
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It is true that referrals help when applying to any company. But when applying to really large tech companies, referrals are so often that they are treated exactly the same as a cold application.
确实，推荐对申请任何公司都有帮助。但当申请真正的大型科技公司时，推荐的频率如此之高，以至于它们被视为与冷申请完全相同。
I didn’t even have a referral. Just an application.
我什至没有推荐人。只是一个应用程序。
If it’s hard to believe, understand that around 40% of all jobs are found through referrals. That means 60% are found without one.
如果您难以置信，请了解大约 40% 的工作是通过推荐找到的。这意味着 60% 的人没有找到。
Cold applications work, it’s just about how to make them work.
冷应用程序可以工作，关键在于如何让它们工作。
And when you cold apply, all you get to cold apply with is your resume.
当你冷申请时，你得到的只是你的简历。
9 Ways to improve your resume.
改善简历的 9 种方法。
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To anyone who’s been struggling, here’s the 9 most common mistakes I learned writing my resume after countless rejections and interviewing engineering candidates.
对于那些一直在苦苦挣扎的人，这里有我在无数次拒绝和面试工程候选人后在写简历时学到的9 个最常见的错误。
(You can also view these tips as a YouTube video here)
（您还可以在此处以 YouTube 视频形式查看这些技巧）
- Don’t repeat yourself. If you have a bullet on coding in Java, don’t write 4 more bullets on that. Save that room for other important details about yourself.
不要重复自己。如果您有关于 Java 编码的项目符号，请不要再写 4 个项目符号。把这个空间留给关于你自己的其他重要细节。 - Talk about people. My Google manager always reminded me that he offered me a role because of my experience working with product managers and UX designers. Mention your experience working with cross-functional teammates.
谈论人。我的 Google 经理总是提醒我，他之所以向我提供这个职位，是因为我有与产品经理和用户体验设计师合作的经验。提及您与跨职能团队成员合作的经验。 - Talk about impact. The impact is why that bullet matters. If you can clearly explain why the impact of your work matters, then it shows you can see the bigger picture that everything you do is for the end user.
谈论影响。影响力就是为什么这颗子弹很重要。如果你能清楚地解释为什么你的工作的影响很重要，那么它表明你可以看到更大的图景，即你所做的一切都是为了最终用户。 - Please format it. If the resume is painful to look out, whoever looks at it will just move on to the next one. It doesn’t matter how much experience you have if it’s not inviting the reader so make it easier for them and use single line bullet points with relaxed margins.
请格式化。如果简历读起来很痛苦，那么无论谁看了它都会继续看下一份。如果不吸引读者，那么无论你有多少经验都没有关系，所以要让他们更容易，并使用单行项目符号和宽松的边距。 - Experience > Completion. It’s 100% okay to put unfinished projects or work on your resume. It’s more important that the candidate know the material and not whether it was actually done. Leading a project half way STILL COUNTS as leading a project.
体验 > 完成度。将未完成的项目或工作放在简历中是 100% 可以的。更重要的是，候选人了解这些材料，而不是是否真正完成了。领导一个项目一半仍然算领导一个项目。 - Use recognizable words. Is it really unethical to put Software engineer instead of software development engineer for my Amazon experience? The job responsibilities are exactly the same. Don’t complicate things using company exclusive titles that nobody else uses like “Front-end UX Software Engineer 1.”
使用可识别的单词。在我的亚马逊经历中将软件工程师而不是软件开发工程师真的不道德吗？工作职责完全相同。不要使用其他人没有使用的公司专有头衔（例如“前端 UX 软件工程师 1”），从而使事情变得复杂。 - Speak engineering. Give the impression you’re a software engineer by including more engineering vocabulary. Talk about unit tests, deployments, version control, JIRA tickets, latency, databases, API calls, distributed systems. The more you sprinkle engineering vocab, the easier it is to trust the candidate is a software engineer.
讲工程。通过包含更多工程词汇来给人留下您是软件工程师的印象。谈论单元测试、部署、版本控制、JIRA 票证、延迟、数据库、API 调用、分布式系统。你使用的工程词汇越多，就越容易相信候选人是软件工程师。 - Keep it simple. A resume is meant to be read quickly. Simple things are read quickly so make it simple. The resume actually becomes less impressive the more cluttered it gets.
保持简单。简历旨在快速阅读。简单的东西读起来很快，所以要简单一些。事实上，简历越混乱，就越不令人印象深刻。 - Important Experience > Every experience. Everyone has a ton of things they could write on their resume… but that doesn’t mean they should. Write the things that stand out the most for the roles you’re applying for. There just isn’t enough room on 1-page for everything.
重要经历 > 每一次经历。每个人都有很多可以写在简历上的东西……但这并不意味着他们应该这样做。写下您所申请的职位中最突出的事情。一页上没有足够的空间容纳所有内容。
Closing thoughts. 结束思想。
Getting an interview is just a numbers game with this formula
获得面试只是使用这个公式的数字游戏
resume quality * applications = total interviews.
简历质量*申请=面试总数。
If you’re applying with a blank piece of paper, you shouldn’t be surprised to get 0 responses. If you apply with an amazing resume, you’ll find yourself having too many interviews to go through.
如果您用一张白纸进行申请，收到 0 条回复就不足为奇了。如果你用一份出色的简历来申请，你会发现自己有太多的面试需要经历。
Invest in the quality of your resume before praying and spraying applications
在祈祷和喷涂应用程序之前投资您的简历质量
Before you leave 离开之前
- Did you know the clap counter goes up to 50?
您知道拍手计数器最高可达 50 吗？ - 4 years of software engineering advice in 1 article
1 篇文章中的 4 年软件工程建议
