Continuing the discussion from How not to CV
OK, this is too fucking incredible to end up as just no. 5 in that other thread.
##VERY VERY IMPORTANT CV TIP, TOO IMPORTANT FOR A NUMBER
List a bunch of past projects in your CV?
Great! Nice to see someone with a lot of experience for a change.
Provide logins for your past projects, so we can actually see these otherwise internal applications?
Even better! If the former employer is cool with it, set up a little demo instance and show it off, why not?
Provide ACTUAL ADMIN logins to the PRODUCTION INSTANCES of ALL your past projects?
#NO!
#NO!!
#HELL NO!
#DEFINITELY FUCKING IN A MILLION YEARS NO!
I couldn't believe when I saw it. I spent an hour VERY carefully clicking through, hoping beyond hope these are just very convincing demos.
Nope.
It seems I can actually access full financial records of a major movie distributor, see customer data of a bank's loyalty program and control the power grid of an entire country.
Yes, you read that last one right.
Almost posted it in the lounge, but hopefully I anonymized these well enough for the public. If not, please let me know immediately.
Fucking unbelievable.