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I find percents bad, hard numbers are much better.

- Automated process 'x', saving company x thousands/millions per year - Automated process 'y', reducing engineering time from 1 month/year to minutes per year.



"Automated process 'x', saving company $10,000 per year" is meaningless without knowing whether $10,000 is a significant figure or a drop in the bucket. Also, if they paid you $100,000 to automate it, it'll be 10 years before they see a return on that investment, and by then your code/process/system may have been rewritten.

I'd much rather see percentages, and if they can want to clarify with hard dollar amounts, so much the better.


that's a good callout, My resume has more context I removed too much trying to anonymize it.




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