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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 23, 2026

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I have been part of the hiring process at companies outside of FAANG, and honestly nobody gives a shit if your resume is more than one page. Maybe if it was 10+ pages that would raise eyebrows, but there's no need to have a hard target of "one page or bust".

I've been specifically complimented on having a good onepager. The ability to condense information down to only what's important is increasingly critical in an age of ai slop. Actually, that remains one of the things i find myself consistently better at then any model I've tested. Any model with it's salt can take bullet bullet points and turn them into a sentence, but i have her to find one that can maximally compress them.

I work outside FAANG, sometimes do interviews and am involved in the hiring process and I tend to prefer 1 or 2 pages, with the most relevant information being at the top. Someone at the start of their career probably could do one page. Experience, skills, education.

Yeah. One page for early career, maximum of two pages (one sheet front & back) for those with more experience.

Nobody is going to read past the first page though. If the goods are in the first page, then you're good to go, people won't even notice that the second page exists. If the goods aren't on the first page, then you're in trouble.

Especially these days the HM is only going to spend 5 seconds looking at your resume so make those 5 seconds count. I believe the current meta for people who have relevant work experience is to put that at the top, because that matters much more than education.

That's fine, but "it doesn't benefit you to have a 2-page resume" is very different from "it actively harms you to have a 2-page resume" (which was the original claim). I think the former is true, while the latter is not.

Eeeeh I really think it depends where you're applying, again. There are plenty of places where a junior resume with more than one page is an immediate black mark.

Apparently there are lots of places where that'a not true as well, which is cool!

But it is Definitely A Thing in the circles I run in.

Huh, interesting. Good to know!

I guess the other question here would be: barring specific length, do you think this resume generally looks good? Would you also push back against my formatting advice, or not so much?

I would say that your formatting advice is good in terms of standing out from the pack. OP's resume isn't bad, it's not going to make someone think less of him IMO, but it's not going to stand out either. It'll be just another resume in the sea of samey-looking resumes. If the job market is super tight, he probably needs every advantage he can get, so I think it makes sense to work on the formatting to really make it pop.

Outside of formatting, would there be anything else?

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