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by codingdave 1395 days ago
What throws me off about even the short description you gave is that your claims are... off.

As a hiring manager, I don't care that you filled a 42U rack - I care about why. What did it accomplish? Did you do it with cost efficiency? What impact did it have on the business? What was the ROI on filling that stack? Why do you feel it is better to have filled a rack than to have scaled in the cloud?

Same with LOC and number of repos. Those simply are not meaningful numbers. I could go put 20K lines of code in 20 repos here in the next hour, that doesn't mean I accomplished anything. Tell us what that code does.

You say you need a larger staff, but you don't say what tasks they would do. What is not getting done? How are you managing to keep things running without staff? What more could you do with more staff, and again... what would the impact be on the business and at what ROI?

In short, if you want to tell a story that sells who you are, you need that story to be about how the business is a better place for your being in it. Less facts, more impact.

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I feel my like CV justifies this, an exert being "enables directors to make short term decisions" (every "point" has something like this).

This is why I'm abit confused as to why I haven't go a responses :(

I think thisThis points back to what GP is saying.

> "enables directors to make short term decisions"

Ok but what does that do in regards to the business ? Does it increase profits and if so how much? Does it in cream efficiency and if so how much? Did it allow you to rapidly scale X and if so how ouch of X or at what rate ?

What’s the impact of your line item and how much I believe is what GP is getting at.