A candidate for the position of Team Lead of the Android development team successfully passed the CV screening stage and had a high chance of getting the role. However, his CV was seen by a Senior Software Engineer who previously worked at one of the mentioned companies.
A candidate for the position of Team Lead of the Android development team successfully passed the CV screening stage and had a high chance of getting the role. However, his CV was seen by a Senior Software Engineer who previously worked at one of the mentioned companies.
"Not so long ago, there was a story from a hiring process: I saw a candidate's CV and insisted on rejecting him, even though he passed the screening well. He was rejected, but if I hadn't made that decision, he had a high chance," Senior Software Engineer Ihor Malyovany wrote on LinkedIn.
According to him, the candidate's resume indicated that for the past 7 years he had only held Team Lead positions in various companies. The job at one of the companies coincided with the time when he also worked as a Senior Software Engineer there.
The resume stated that the candidate had been a Team Lead of a team of 13 Android developers for a year and a half. But in fact, he had worked as a Middle Specialist in a team of 5 developers for 2 months. Moreover, he was fired for inefficiency.
According to Maliovany, the moral of this situation is this:
