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> Unless engineering is explicitly involved in the hiring process, HR will drop your resume automatically if you say "5 years of MySQL and SQLite experience" with no mention of Postgres.

I found this the hard way during these last 2 years.

They might give you the benefit of the doubt if you have led teams before, but if that's not the case, your application is going to the bottom of the list because you don't match exact keyword and have a big number next to it.



This has been the case since the early 2000s, and much earlier too, probably.

I had thought the industry has matured by now, but nope, still running the same old scripts!




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