[jdefarge]

There are some traits that can be easily observed on Googlers and Xooglers. Particularly, if you meet at least two of the requirements below then they are definitely going to screen your resume more carefully:

1. Holds a BS/MSc/PhD from a famous US university (Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, etc) or a PhD in a known university.

2. Has publications or is a well renowned CS researcher/professor/veteran (including famous progr. lang. gurus)

3. Is/was the committer of a famous open source software

4. Has invented algorithms or data structures or programming language

5. Has worked on a major company like Microsoft, Oracle, or Intel;

6. Has been the finalist of programming competitions like ACM, TopCoder, etc.