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Common mistakes from reviewing 1000+ Tech resumes: Kleiner Perkins Fellows 2022

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The Kleiner Perkins Fellows program is a technology fellowship program across Engineering, Product and Design roles that has over 700 alumni since its inception in 2012. Ex-fellows have gone on to do some amazing things, including founding Figma, OpenSea and Persona. Having conducted 100s of interviews and reviewed 1000s of resumes, I wanted to share some interesting statistics and advice around creating your own resume.

The Kleiner Perkins Fellows program is a fellowship for all of Engineering, Product and Design which gives students the opportunity to intern at a portfolio of early and late stage startups while being able to engage and learn from a broader community of other students’ startup experiences. The fellowship is geared towards those not just with solid technical skills, but exemplary leadership and strong evidence of a self-directed entrepreneurial mindset. As a KP Engineering Fellow in 2014 myself, I currently work at an early-stage Kleiner-funded Series B startup called Glean where I was on the

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