ASO-02 — Missing scale
Short answer
ASO-02 checks whether bullets state the size of the work: users, request volume, data size, budget, team size. Without scale, "optimised the database" could describe a hobby project or a billion-row OLTP system — and the reader assumes the smaller one.
Bullet revision
Optimised queries → Optimised queries [SCALE: in a service handling 40M requests/day]
Impact
25 pts
Weight
ASO · medium · proportional
Quantitative
Evidence type
What it checks
- A quantified scale expression in the bullet (count, users, currency, GB, people)
- Unit dictionary, including Turkish suffixed forms
- Share of bullets without scale — the penalty is proportional
Why it matters
Without scale the difficulty of the work is unknown, and scale is the only objective evidence in a CV of the gap between junior and senior work.
How to fix it
Add the size of the work to each bullet: users, request volume, data size, team size or number of services. "Optimised queries" → "Optimised queries in a service handling 40M requests/day".
Frequently asked questions
What if I do not know the exact number?
Give a defensible order of magnitude: "~40M requests/day", "a team of 8". Honest approximations beat invented precision.
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