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Discussion on: Don’t use progress bars in your CV

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Rémy 🤖

If you really want to use a scale, define the scale somewhere. I like the way Google does that during the interviews. They'll ask you to rank yourself from 0 to 10 on several skills relatives to the job (Python, TCP/IP, etc) but they will explain you the scale. While I don't remember it exactly each number basically it's something like:

  • 0 — don't know at all
  • 5 — you're the person everybody in the company goes to see if they have questions about it
  • 10 — you've invented the damn thing

Even if you don't use the scale, you can describe your skill level in relationship to others. Like:

  • Python — Beginners refer to me
  • JavaScript — Teaching it at university
  • etc

But more than anything what matters is proofs. You want to communicate JavaScript experience? Put JavaScript experience in your job descriptions, possibly with links and references.

(Also it's forbidden to reveal the Google hiring process publicly so I guess that Google's never going to hire me, oh nooooo)

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Zoran Zlokapa

Exactly, exactly, exactly, couldn't agree more! There is nothing I can add after this.

And sorry about never getting job at Google 😆

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KhoPhi • Edited

10 — you've invented the damn thing

Of course. 10 should always be, you invented the damn thing. If python, I think Guido gets to be the first to sit at the Table of 10!

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Illutax

No human is able to grasp the functionings of every lib or package made for python. 100% is not possible, even if you authored the language to begin with.

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Rémy 🤖

Hence the scale not measuring your knowledge of 100% of what exists but rather how do you compare in relation to your peers