Engineer shares resume screening heuristics: empty GitHub links get you passed over
iskander · x · 2026-10-30
A senior engineer explains the heuristics he uses to winnow hundreds of CVs down to a few dozen worth reading: all-caps names, empty GitHub repos, and 404'd personal sites are treated as signals of carelessness and low theory of mind toward the reviewer.
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