#Resume advice

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lunar quiver
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Got some interviews from Two Sigma/Microsoft/HRT but get auto rejected from t2 companies like JP Morgan/C1/Bank of America, not sure why

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turbid narwhal
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how much did u increase up time by

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what did u use to enable r/w

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what did u use to create the web based video tool

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“that ran more lines of code” -> “Overhauled testing … by creating unit and integration tests, increasing total line and branch coverage by XY%”

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u dont mention a single language/library or framework used for anything in ur AWS experience

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ur 2nd swe job is pretty.. meh

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i would remove the dates from projects. None of em have been created in the past 2 years

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remove instances of pronouns in the resume

lunar quiver
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the work I did for AWS EBS was using internal libraries and using C, the annotation tool was using REACT and leveraging Python Lambda and sagemaker to label data and create workers and tasks

2nd swe job was not that interesting imo

turbid narwhal
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“Used deep learning…”

  • “Used” not a great word, maybe can say like Leveraged? or something of that nature
lunar quiver
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how should I describe internal libraries?

turbid narwhal
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what libraries? i work at zon

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we cant mention the internal ones but u can at the very least mention C

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“Relation Non/Relation DB”, i would actually list off which DBs u know, it may be better just for dinging on key words

lunar quiver
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makes sense, do u think i should be targetting junior level roles (that's what I've been applying for)

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thanks for all your suggestions, I really appreciate them KJ

turbid narwhal
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nah prolly can go for mid level. Depending on when u started the second swe role, sounds like u may have around 3 YOE

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so should be good for mid level

lunar quiver
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ii have 2.5

turbid narwhal
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worst case scenario applying for mid level is that they downgrade u to entry level

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but very rarely would applying to entry level would they upgrade u to mid level

lunar quiver
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i've been applying to entry @faangs/faang equivalent and mid at others

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i dont think i'm quite mid level yet at faang

turbid narwhal
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let them tell u that🤷🏾‍♀️

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but dont take urself out the running

lunar quiver
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updated a bit with a couple of your suggestions

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forgot to remove some pronouns (will edit it again oops)

turbid narwhal
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whatd u use to create the unit tests? the common ones used at java are also public so should be fine to use

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oh nice ur in process of getting ur MS? in that case i would consider putting education up top or possibly above projects

lunar quiver