# Post-Edit Critique: Google — Software Engineer III, Business Home

**Date:** 2026-07-27  
**Documents:** `resume_v2.tex` and `cover_letter_v2.tex`  
**Scope:** Approved Tier-2 hierarchy, recency and cover-letter edits

## 1. Fit Verdict and Hard Gate

**Evidence Fit: 89/100 — Core**  
**Hard gate: PASS**

The edits do not change candidate-role fit. Every minimum qualification remains Direct. The outstanding competitive gaps remain preferred data structures/algorithms, accessibility, and non-canonicalized design/code-review evidence.

| Dimension | Weight | Score |
|---|---:|---:|
| Required qualifications | 35 | 35 |
| Core responsibilities | 25 | 19 |
| Level and ownership | 15 | 13 |
| Recency and depth | 10 | 10 |
| Domain/tool transfer | 10 | 7 |
| Practical constraints | 5 | 5 |
| **Evidence Fit** | **100** | **89** |

## 2. Document Quality

| Dimension | Weight | Score | Post-edit assessment |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| Truth and provenance | 25 | 25 | No claim changed in substance; validator passes with zero warnings. |
| Information hierarchy | 20 | 19 | Swisscom now leads with pipeline construction and current Python/Kubernetes delivery before operations/governance. |
| Bullet evidence and impact | 20 | 18 | Specific, scoped and interviewable; no metrics were invented. |
| Relevance and terminology | 15 | 14 | Current software construction is now more legible for the SWE audience. |
| Skills evidence | 10 | 9 | The systems line now distinguishes current incident response from prior distributed/REST/quality-gate work. |
| Mechanics/readability | 10 | 9 | Clean two-page resume and one-page letter with correct parsing and no visual defects. |
| **Document Quality** | **100** | **94** | **Pass** |

## 3. Channel Strength

**Weak — unchanged.**

The v2 package remains a cold application unless a referral, recruiter interaction or targeted hiring-team connection is added. Document edits cannot upgrade channel strength.

## 4. Competitive and Reader Read

- **Parser/ATS:** PASS. Current Python, production pipelines, AWS migration, Kubernetes delivery, software systems and historical languages extract correctly.
- **Recruiter:** FORWARD. The first Swisscom evidence now answers the role's build/maintain pipeline minimum faster.
- **Hiring manager:** MAYBE. Strong data-intensive system ownership; direct current full-stack, design-review and code-review evidence remains less explicit.
- **Technical reviewer:** CREDIBLE. First challenge remains algorithms/coding calibration and detailed examples of current design/review practices.

The obvious-fit product SWE retains an advantage in current product-code, algorithms and review evidence. Dennis retains the advantage in end-to-end production accountability, incident ownership and substantial data-pipeline depth.

## 5. Claim Audit

All unchanged material claims from the first critique were rechecked and remain safe. The edited claims are:

| Edited claim | Canonical evidence | Safe? | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current incident response; prior distributed backend, REST microservice and quality-gate engineering | SW-2; VZ-1/2; FC-1/3; GN-1 | YES | Recency is now explicit and accurate. |
| AWS pipeline migration moved to first Swisscom bullet | SW-1 | YES | Wording and owned-domain scope are unchanged. |
| Python/Kubernetes delivery moved to second Swisscom bullet | SW-3 | YES | Current hands-on code/deployment evidence is more visible. |
| Component Owner operations moved to third Swisscom bullet | SW-2 | YES | Accountability remains prominent without leading the section. |
| Condensed cover-letter Swisscom evidence | SW-1/2/7 and resume v2 | YES | Retains one coherent build-and-operate evidence chain. |
| Shortened Staff-to-Mid motivation | Canonical title plus user-approved motivation | YES | Clearer and less defensive; no new employment claim. |

## 6. Fixes

### Tier 1

**None.**

### Tier 2

**Approved edits are complete. No further document edit is necessary before finalization.**

Evidence enrichment remains optional: only add current merge-request review, design-review or mentoring scope after user confirmation and canonical KB entry.

## 7. Cover Letter

**Decision: KEEP.**

The v2 letter is more useful than the original:

- It retains the verified Business Home motivation.
- It reduces resume repetition to one build-and-operate evidence chain.
- It explains the Staff-to-Mid application in two confident sentences.
- It remains fully supported by the resume and canonical claims.

Deleting it would remove the only direct explanation of the level mismatch.

## 8. Mechanical Verification

- Canonical validator: **PASS — 0 warnings**.
- Resume: **2 pages**.
- Cover letter: **1 page**.
- Employer/title/date extraction: **PASS**.
- Contact information: **PASS**.
- Visual inspection: **PASS**; no clipping, overlap or broken page elements.
- Bullet count: **12**, unchanged.
- Certifications: listed once.
- AI-fingerprint review: **PASS**; wording remains concrete, scoped and non-generic.

## Recommendation

The v2 package is recommended for finalization on both fit and document quality. Channel Strength remains Weak until a warm action occurs.
