Checking his website, it reeks of narcissism. There are better ways to assert yourself than to do all the corny things he has done on his self promotion website.

Are you honestly slagging a guy off for talking about himself on his resume???

I mean yeah, we computer folk are supposed to be all self deprecating and all. But if there is one place we should stop mumbling and talking ourselves down for a second, that is it.

At some point if you want people to know what you do, you're going to have to tell them.

I found his approach tacky, loud and insincere.

Of course you should be talking about yourself on your resume but a couple of this that are different here:

- Wtf is up with music - 51%/49% thing. - Publicly asking to be hired that reflects poorly on his current job at Google. - Excessively loud self marketing

why not have a simple site with your accomplishments? Why all the excess bullshit?

I think that's definitely a cultural thing. It would be in poor taste in my country, but seems very American.

And many of the things he did do sound like he could be a good contributor - I guess you can't know about his personality without an interview.

I sorta draw the line at autoplaying music. Apart from that, he's done a good job. How many of us are bold enough to put long list of glowing reviews on our resume?

Wow, that site is extremely weird and off-putting. Scroll down to the section "What are people saying about me?" to read what I can only assume is his friends being asked to write promotional blurbs about him. I can understand putting your best foot forward on your résumé, but this is something else.

This is a deeply unfair, unreasonable and arguably abusive comment.

It's entirely reasonable to talk about yourself and your achievements on your resume, and Mr Mayes' site is rather a good example of doing so.

No one is talking about resume. I’m talking about his approach.

If I see this kind of resume land or my desk, it gets thrown out.

Given the number of plugs for Google products/projects/research (especially near the end) it's probably intended to be more of an ad for Google.

Maybe. OTOH, this guy's resume says he's a web programmer. I'd think if google were recruiting people interested in machine learning, they'd get one of their machine learning specialists to write this.

Specialists are usually the worst teachers, because they assume that you know trivial things. What appears trivial to them is not trivial to the audience though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge