dark crystal
Can't seem to pass resume screens anywhere, Spotify recruiter told me I wasn't good enough literally wtf do these people want from me?
Give me your worst, I think I need a reality check and cheque good god.
Final year CS at no name Canadian school (but I think my exp and projects make up for it?), final internship this summer, will start NG search end of summer, good god I hope I fare better than now.
Thank you 🫠
tropic night
Nothing is your fault here
FB Snap and Salesforce just aren't hiring new grad
I had similar experiences w quant funds / FAANG+ this year
Despite being 4x internships @ FAANG / Quant funds I got auto rejected from everywhere kek
Just set your sights lower and target places that aren't big name, worked for me
More lowkey fintech roles @ banks r still hiring give them a go ur resume is super sharp as it is I don't have any suggestions
There was a period of time where amazon was interviewing literally anybody w a pulse. Nowadays uni + 3x software engineering interships + crazy impressive projects isn't enough not because you did something wrong but simply bcos it's a recession n big tech isn't hiring
dark crystal
i have return offer at shop, but they won't let me switch teams and i loathe rails and plus just fomo since all my peers seem to be unaffected by this shit patch of luck i'm going through
tropic night
i have return offer at shop, but they won't let me switch teams and i loathe rai...
Fr?
I didn't find any big tech hiring
Except 2Sig
dark crystal
i've made a lot of excuses in the past, but this time i literally don't know how to improve
i'm not ng yet
i grauate december
tropic night
Pray economy improves
dark crystal
i'm looking for an internship at shopify or better level
tropic night
Literally all you can do bro
tropic night
i'm looking for an internship at shopify or better level
Why do you want another internship if you've already had three?
dark crystal
i got a summer free might as well work
i'm competing with freaks who have 6
fuck thought id have one big name under me belt b4 i graduate
tropic night
i'm competing with freaks who have 6
Tech is just stupid competitive ye
Is shop not a big name?
dark crystal
apparently not
dark crystal
you wouldn't believe the amount of rejections i've been getting
dark crystal
i've been spam applying since august and this szn has been utter shit and rough
i think this szn has opened my eyes about the value of brand names - school or companies
tropic night
Theo.GG made a great video on why spam applying used to work but is now a terrible tactic, do you want a link?
There's better strategies for getting good tech jobs now
dark crystal
cuz honestly i think my resume and work exp is good and unique - like space software company? and my projects are all unqiue not some youtube react tutorial number 10000000
but like wtf
if you're referring to reaching out to recruiters
i've been literally spam applying and spam emailing recruiters
my email outbox is around 10,000
for recruiters this szn
i get ghosted
tropic night
if you're referring to reaching out to recruiters
This is moreso having friends or mentors already employed where you want to be
Than spam emailing recruiters
dark crystal
oh i mean i got referalls at fb, snap, salesforce etc
fb rejected me, snap, sf ghosted me
tropic night
It might be difficult to understand, but you've done nothing wrong in this situation. If a place is just not hiring, you can't convicne them to re-allocate budget to headcount and hire you
dark crystal
google ref didn't do anything (i got the oa anyway not cuz of the ref apparently)
tropic night
Tech is just in a bad state, big tech + big name companies even moreso
You might not want to hear it but you should set your sights lower
It won't impact your long term earnings all that much
dark crystal
yeah honestly i should but it just hurts seeing my peers just race past me
but alas tis nothing i can do for i've done all
tropic night
yeah honestly i should but it just hurts seeing my peers just race past me
Well, have any of your peers gotten big n internships?
dark crystal
peeps seem to be swimming in it
tropic night
From your no-name university?
dark crystal
it's like when i apply my app gets ghosted or lost but when they apply they just get in
yeah
as i said in my anon-resume - lady luck hates me
@tropic night friend got into amazon end of first year with this:
tropic night
<@887104218446561280> friend got into amazon end of first year with this:
tip, blur out the university name better
I know which one it is xD
dark crystal
oh well
dark crystal
no this was ages ago like 2019ish
he's been from zon to goog to sick startup to goog again
perhaps this is my cue to learn to be stoic and temper myself
tropic night
no this was ages ago like 2019ish
That makes a lot more sense
Economy was much stronger back then
I remember getting apple interview with zero experience on my CV apart from some undergrad research
dark crystal
but i posted here thinking there's got to be something wrong cuz spotify recruiter said this:
tropic night
😔 the good old days
dark crystal
idk it seems like this never gets any easier
from university entrances to jobs to etc
alas nothing to do but move forward and catch up to the ever accelerating prospects i guess
tropic night
idk it seems like this never gets any easier
Have some trust it will
Economic cycles r a thing
We got caught in a bad one
dark crystal
i should really learn to be more zen and stoic, this shit shouldn't affect me as much it is right now
thank you for your replies @tropic night i really do appreciate it
anything else i can improve upon or is there nigh i can do?
what all quants u worked at? i'm hoping i end up as a swe at quant firm so i can sell my soul to afford a 12 sq metre shoebox in canada
tropic night
anything else i can improve upon or is there nigh i can do?
Build a network and find what you want to specialize on when you grduate
dark crystal
defo none of this web dev shit i don't feel like i;m using my degree
tropic night
what all quants u worked at? i'm hoping i end up as a swe at quant firm so i can...
Don't want to doxx too hard but I worked at one of Jump Trading / Optiver / G-Research
dark crystal
oxbridge?
dark crystal
st andrews?
tropic night
No 😂
dark crystal
st andy's got an amazing beachside campus
dark crystal
i dropped out university of toronto, top 10 cs unis
rankings don't mean shit for undergrad tbh
unless it's like a silicon valley feeder school
dark crystal
@tropic night update (and soz for the ping)
used sans serif, use A4 instead of shitty letter size paper and removed leadership shit
vs
dark crystal
forgot to remove the bold line in my first internship i've fixed that and the inconsistent italics of tech used
modern lynx
@dark crystal
at a first glance
it's really unappealing to read
your font choice isn't exactly flattering (imo)
it's really wordy
there's no breaks with white space anywhere
it's like i'm reading an overloaded powerpoint slide
i would honestly say cut this entire section
and it alleviates a lot of space in your resume so you can space things out with a few pixels
also congrats on shopify, im also ex shopify
these small titles might fuck up with parsing
i keep things very simple
and don't write more text than needed
eg
"Shopify, Software Engineer Intern"
that's it
because realistically what does financial engineering & merchant services tell anyone? practically nothing
dark crystal
@modern lynx that's my old one, I've sent the new updated one that's much easier on the eyes
modern lynx
<@190276271488499713> that's my old one, I've sent the new updated one that's mu...
O where
dark crystal
^^^