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by pooloo1 3022 days ago
Its a great piece of artwork, and a decent portfolio for a programmer in a sense.

What I felt could use improvement...

One, your photo made me feel as if you were not enthusiastic about work, or what you do. I am not saying take a fake thumbs up picture, but at least have a smile as it does change perception for employers.

Two, it was really slow, and I did not like the "typed" effect. It was great at the start, but carrying it throughout the entire resume was really redundant. I lost interest when the JavaScript comment popped in. Maybe a Pause/Play/Skip feature?

Three, the sentence "I got deep knowledge about," bothers me, and doesn't flow well. I recommend "have vast experience with," or pick your flavor of adjective.

Four, instead of "Thanks for your time!" I recommend, "Thank you for your time!" as it is more personable.

Five, ensure you are consistent with how you present things such as CoffeeScript. Which you identified once as "Coffeescript," and in the following slide as "coffeescript" with a lower-case letter.

Six, you only state you have "deep knowledge" of Laravel/Yii/jQuery/Angular/CoffeeScript/etc and you never provide evidence or proof. Instead of animating HelloWorldMyNameIs code, I recommend showing actual products of that experience.

Just my two cents.

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> Two, it was really slow, and I did not like the "typed" effect. It was great at the start, but carrying it throughout the entire resume was really redundant. I lost interest when the JavaScript comment popped in. Maybe a Pause/Play/Skip feature?

Plus if you look away for 5 seconds, you can easily miss an entire section or two, and it ends on a screen with no summary, menu, or anything but the email.

> Three, the sentence "I got deep knowledge about," bothers me, and doesn't flow well.

It's ambiguous. Did he just get it, or does he mean he has it, or is it because his English isn't great an he's mixing up got and have?

> Four, instead of "Thanks for your time!" I recommend, "Thank you for your time!" as it is more personable.

I had a teacher say to never end a paper with those, and I think it applies everywhere. It literally adds nothing, it's complete filler. If I liked it and found it interesting, I want to thank or hire the person. If I thought it was uninteresting, the thanks isn't going to do anything for me. Look at most other sites... Does Paul Graham not appreciate HN readers just because the pages don't thank us at the bottom? Just send a thank you email after your interview!

I agree that the wording should be changed for professionalism + clarity. The "I got deep knowledge about" should definitely be more like "I have deep knowledge about".