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by rdouble 5595 days ago
if you read a resume that says: Google, Principal Software Engineer, 2006 - Current Python, git, gerrit, responsible for Gmail is that really enough for you to make a decision to spend time on a phone screen?

Yeah.

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not if you're looking for a C++ developer, or not necessarily if you're looking for a performance tuning engineer...

the point is that it doesn't really tell you anything, i could be wasting my time on a phone call if i find out he was only writing python tools to help with packaging and deployment when what i want is a rockstar python developer to help create highly scalable wsgi compliant rest servers.

It tells me he already got through Google's notoriously thorough hiring process.
granted--google is quite thorough--but it doesn't directly translate into this candidate being a match for your company based on motivation nor skill set.