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Contra this, cover letters aren't popular (at least for SWE hiring) in my experience, because nobody reads them.


Honestly you're lucky if anyone reads your CV. Standard practice for the technical interviews, i.e. where someone on a team somewhere is taking time away from real work to interview you, is for them to maybe spend 90 seconds, just 5 minutes before the start of the interview, to give it a skim




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