#(FEEDBACK) Trying to get an internship for summer 2024

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brave rivet
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I don't have much work experience, just a lot of time coding stuff in my free time and in college.
Any feedback or recommendations on things to change would be greatly appreciated.

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errant tendon
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No advice but I like your Overwatch project

turbid mural
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Innovated an automated alignment tool
ok.. is this a coding project? if so, what did u use to create such a tool? any metrics?

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i would make ur projects in descending order of date

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in what manner do u have experience with “AWS” ?

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can remove IDEs from skills

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where and how do u have experience with C, C++, and R? i dont see anythting on the resume

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same with Docker and GCP

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Nginx, Apache…

brave rivet
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@turbid mural i have way too many micro-projects that would take up like 4 pages if i were to include how i used every one of my technical skills. i do need to better explain the "automated alignment tool" because i used cv2 and some feature matching / perspective transformation but yeah

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but in an interview scenario i could easily explain how and in what manner i used each of my technical skills'

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the other things u said i'll fix up too

brave rivet
brave rivet
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up to date copy, too lazy to anonymize

paper cargo
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Here’s one metric: report what the “smooth data flow” was. Request and response times

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What made it smooth?

brave rivet
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its also used for the chat system and pushes to mongodb after notifying people in the channels so its quicker than waiting for a db change

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its really just complicated and i dont think i could easily put it into a flashy singular sentence for a resume

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this is the current

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i did change it

paper cargo
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My point is: if your goal is to get metrics for your resume points, you may have to put in the work to get them

brave rivet
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im just curious why metrics are so important to a resume

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its seems contrived

paper cargo
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Because saying “I serviced some customers every day” is different than “I serviced 5 customers every day” and even more different than “I serviced 10 million customers every day”

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The last statement lets the reader know you’ve built something that can manage a heavy load of traffic, which is substantial

brave rivet
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that makes sense

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i can gather some metrics for my rebound app project

paper cargo
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I would look for opportunities for metrics in all your projects

brave rivet
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my other projects might not have metrics except snake in java

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i did do some nice stuff regarding how i handled framerates

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the dermatology tooll i made in undergrad research might have some metrics i can dig out

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its just frustrating having to spam apply to roles which i am pretty confident im qualified for

urban tendon
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where is your college on your resume

brave rivet
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i cropped it out

brave rivet
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this one has it

urban tendon
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ah ok

brave rivet
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was too lazy to anonymize this copy

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manhattanville university

urban tendon
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you said 'updated' but then i didnt see it anyway i was worried

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do you have the impactful classes you have taken on your resume?

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operating systems, any electives, etc

brave rivet
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im in deep learning and ive taken natural language processing

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i know tensorflow and dabbled in pytorch

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i took udemy courses on it in high school

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i also know docker for both of those use cases

urban tendon
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sounds like great classes to add to a resume

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maybe not the udemy because i can say i learned how to do anything through udemy

brave rivet
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true

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@urban tendon does the resume really have that much of an impact?

urban tendon
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also summer 2025 internships are ramping up aorund now

urban tendon
brave rivet
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true

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i have no formal experience at any actual companies which is really hurting me i think

urban tendon
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I got an offer for my internship in march of that summer

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so it isnt like you are dead

brave rivet
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my university was a "college" until a few months ago