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by mattnewton 1229 days ago
Huh, I can’t remember the last time I’ve written a cover letter, or been asked to read one when interviewing in my 10 year long career. I feel like all these sorts of things happen better over a phone screen or an in person meetup and the resume step is for weeding out noise.

Especially in tech where you get fantastic ESL engineers who might struggle to write flowery prose about their skills but can document their code very well in English.