I will say "more pages" are not good and will still advise 2 pages max. If you can't communicate your value in 2 pages, you aren't good at summarizing the main points. That communication is key, especially these days when everyone's time is at a premium. There may be regional preferences but most managers I know do not want to read more than 2 pages and may well just ignore a longer resume (5 pages is ridiculously long). I agree with everything else tho', especially things like making sure your resume is easy to scan: HR and managers are busy people -- if your resume is hard to read, they will not bother to try. @U055PQH9R4M It isn't clear to me from your points whether you value an opening paragraph that tells me, at a glance, what do you as a candidate bring to the table and why do you want this job (folks can go into more detail in a cover letter, but the resume needs to carry the core of that in a "human-readable sentence"... or two). Again, keep it short: elevator pitch -- why should I even interview you in 30 seconds or less?

Agree with Sean. Resumes aren’t meant to get you hired, they are meant to get you an interview. I’ve never heard of example code on a resume and unless it was incredibly clever I would consider it a strong mark against someone.

+1 with Sean and therefore +1 for the main parts of the post. I recently read a resume that said “maintained an app that ….” , and I found myself really wishing they said something like “fixed 2 bugs a week, and refactored a couple classes in an app that …” . It’s surprisingly comforting for me to know that this person wants to evidence they have a work ethic. And while the word “maintain” is not a bad word, I can’t tell from that word alone if this person worked hard on this, or they skated by without doing much 🤷 . I think that story is in agreement with what others are saying here.

@U11BV7MTK seeing code on a resume would be unwelcome? i suppose we have divergent views on this

what code snippet in a 1-2 page resume would be very enticing? I’m honestly interested to hear. Because I can’t think of any.

if someone invented a particularly clever quine i would want to see that on a resume. Can’t really think of any others? Maybe the duff’s device if you were Duff. I remember a quine that would cycle through different languages before ending up back at the original. And a code snippet that would play snake with its own code. But other than that I don’t really know of anything that would impress on a resume

I think of it more like: writers supply writing samples, why not coders supply coding samples. I suppose it is not normal now that I encounter significant pushback 😅

coding in the interview is kinda expected. some have differing opinions. But resume to me is just to get an interview where that stuff comes up