[SwellJoe]

pg has a deeply felt longing for brevity. Our application, which did get us to the interview, was long, as I tend to chatter on quite a bit more than strictly necessary--I feel the engineers compulsion to cover all of the caveats and interesting (to me) details--but I don't think that helped our case. You should fight the urge to chatter on.

Think about the following questions:

What are you going to build?

Why should we believe you are willing and able to build it?

Everything else is fluff...so, for every sentence you write, think, "Does this answer one of those two questions?" If not, cut it. That's pretty much what all of the questions on the application are about--they just want to hear it from multiple angles.