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A “My Little Resume” in the style of My Little Pony, with some sections redacted.
Rough OCR:
This little pony went to in He graduated with highest honors and even received a departmental award for academic excellence! While at he cultivated an ongoing love for…
Computer Science & Mathematics!
For two years he worked as a tutor for the Computer Science department. He loves passing on his knowledge and getting everyone excited about computer science!
One summer he worked for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He developed an online tool for analyzing thermal neutron triple-axis spectrometry data. He even had his very own nuclear reactor to play with!
The next year he had an Extreme Blue internship with IBM. He worked with a team of interns at the Almaden Research Center to develop technology related to online shopping. But he’s not allowed to talk about it too much! (He signed a non-disclosure)
After graduation he galloped off to work as a radio DJ, and freelance web developer. He produces stunning, high quality websites for all the nice ponies hanging out in the
For a few months he dabbled in domestication, working for a startup in San Francisco called. He spearheaded major projects, infrastructure upgrades and code cleaning frenzies while ensuring that thousands of hardworking ponies got quality, catered lunches of grains, oats, and grasses every day! The daily plough just wasn’t for him though, so he threw off the bit and bridle and galloped back to He still does contract work for on other companies on occasion, and in the fall he’ll be heading off to a computer science Ph.D. program at the University of Washington!
The adventure is far from over… What will this little pony do next, who knows??
Pony Stats
Education
School: '12
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Mathematics
GPA: 3.74
Major GPA: 3.98
Favorites
Languages: C, Python
Editor: Vim
Subjects: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Compilers
Awards/Achievements
Academic Achievement
Place at ACM-ICPC BOSPRE 2 years in a row, at NE North American Regionals in 2010
Top 5% in Give Me Some Credit, kaggle.com’s largest ML competition to date
Is… is this a real resume? Did an adult make this on purpose?
It’s Joseph Redmon, creator of the YOLO object detection neural net architecture, which is very widely used.
I think we both know the answer
Is the answer “we live in a broken world and nothing matters”?
Kinda, but with a more positive spin than you may be putting on it.
Imagine getting all nihilistic about a pony cartoon
Yes I was 100% normal until I saw this, this is definitely what got me all nihilistic
Yes, I’ve seen this resume before.
I think it’s ironic. The guy is quite influential in his field, so he doesn’t really need a resume.
Ftr I would submit a resume similar to this in a heartbeat, completely seriously, if I thought I could get away with it.
Ironic?
I guess that’s as good an explanation as any.
I think if you can use a resume like this without any concern of hurting your prospects, that’s how you know you’ve found success.
Besides what others have mentioned, I’m pretty sure nothing on the resume matters anymore except hitting automatically checked keywords. I’ve seen some formatting nightmares get through the first levels of filtering, and nobody cares about the resume after that.
Im imagining an amazon listing as the title and body. Please give me an example of one of these nightmares.