Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What a reviewer actually reads Here is the uncomfortable premise the rest of this guide is built on. The person assessing your project is not reading it. They are scanning it, in a fixed order, looking for a small number of specific signals, and they will decide whether to keep going long before they open a single file of code. That decision takes somewhere in the region of a minute and a half, and it is made on the title, the first paragraph, one image, and — if you have given them one — the evaluation section. What they are scanning for is consistent across markets and across seniority levels. Hiring managers screen for production signals: how you handle failure, how you structure data, how you connect systems, and whether you have shipped working software that other people depend on.…
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