An example would be if you had 5 years of experience in AWS and only a few tutorials of GCP for experience, but the listing specifically wants GCP skills, you list it.

Not a case where you have 5 years of backend experience and start applying to senior frontend positions because you went through a React tutorial.

It's based off of some latex template that looks roughly like this: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/cv-template-using-t...

So it's not possible to be openly gay and hire-able?

I mean, sure, that must be true for some companies but I wouldn't want to work at those anyway.

edit: on second read, this might come off as more aggressive than I wanted, and the rest of the post is pretty good, but this part just stood out to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI

I'm not sure what can be done with these cases, and I know people, of various protected out-groups, that have specifically mentioned those as reasons not to join a company.

Without wanting to get into a discussion of the gender-neutrality of those words, I'm not a man and everyone that I talked with there was, and it just felt odd.

Q2 I feel like my resume response rate is better, and I've had 4-5 "onsite" loops, which got me 1 reject and 3 (all in June) where I'm waiting for a response.

5 years of experience at no name startups in data science/mle, hard req for fully remote positions, visibly part of a controversial minority.

[1] https://www.vhemt.org/

but also, yes, I totally agree with you that some of this "oh you're a late bloomer, you'll want to do it when your older" stuff comes off as condescending if you actually just don't want to own a house with 2.5 kids.