CS Undergrad Graduating May 2023 Looking for Full-Time Positions

[midnight sinew]

Hey everyone, I was hoping to get some feedback on my resume. I am trying to make it into one page, and trying to figure out which part I should take out to make it all fit. There is nothing on my GitHub, as these projects were private. Any suggestions are appreciated!

[keen oyster]

can drop CC

[slender idol]

Follow the same style in education like experience

[midnight sinew]

that did the trick!

[midnight sinew]

do you just mean the dates and cities? because I thought it's more common to have the college name in bold and the degree with details under it, no?

[slender idol]

If the degree in bold, job in bold. if uni in bold, company name in bold

you must maintain consistency. use a style, don't use style within your tex

[midnight sinew]

it's actually based on the resume template that's being recommended in this server: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjbzwjncs

and I see multiple other resumes doing it the same way that I do it

for example: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/usajobs-federal-resume/qyckrmgqhzkx

[keen oyster]

the resume format is fine lol

i think you should reword the last bullet in ur recent sde experience

[midnight sinew]

lol alright - you think that's all I need to change then? I have one quantitative statement for Starbucks, just none for Northrop :/

[keen oyster]

it sounds a little clunky possibly. Maybe can say something like

Refactored Java Spring Boot application to leverage Azure Elastic Cloud, leading to ….

or something of that nature

oh nvm

i guess thats what the first bullet says

can u explain what the last bullet is conveying?

here

communicated and implemented features

any big features u can think of? or can u drop some examples features u did and maybe we can expand that out to dig some metrics

i would also probably drop the communicated bit

can just say “Implemented …”

[midnight sinew]

so the first bullet mentions that I used Java Spring Boot with Elasticsearch, and with the last one, I'm trying to focus more on the ELK stack, which includes the Logstash setup

[slender idol]

Jakes resume is popular yes, but I have stated the issue. feel free to do what you want with it. If you want other templates, let me know but in general. the template must have a cls that contains macro not just commands because this is very... ugly. I am a professional academic writer using latex and this is my opinion.

[keen oyster]

i would also maybe consider dropping the dates on the projects? one of them is 5 years old, do/will you remember the implementation details of the project if asked about it in an interview?

[midnight sinew]

the Logstash setup took a lot of time, I had to make sure that it's running periodically in order to keep Elasticsearch and the database synchronized and ensure that there are no duplicate records

[midnight sinew]

I mean, if I drop the dates, how will that help me in remembering the details? :)

I get that it will look better

[keen oyster]

that one is just so maybe recruiters dont look at it like 🤔

[midnight sinew]

I appreciate it, I might play around with it later, but I understand what you mean

[midnight sinew]

haha good point

[midnight sinew]

oh my bad, I thought you were talking about the Starbucks last bullet point, but I came up with a new one if you think it's better than the last one for Starbucks, since it's a little repetitive?
"Setup ELK Stack on Microsoft Azure, ensuring all data is up-to-date and its integrity is maintained."

it makes it fit on one line which imo looks better

but I'm not sure how popular ELK stack actually is

[keen oyster]

i would maybe spell out ELK so it hits more “buzzwords” and ensures we arent assuming people will know what ELK even is

[midnight sinew]

ok "Setup Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash on Microsoft Azure, ensuring all data is up-to-date and its integrity is maintained."

[keen oyster]

“Designed and implemented data management system on Microsoft Azure, using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to ensure real time data accuracy and integrity” ?

[midnight sinew]

for the other point at Northrop, I remember creating a component that rendered custom-designed UI to the user, so I could say "Implemented custom UI renderer..."

[midnight sinew]

it was running periodically every couple minutes, would that still count as real-time?

[midnight sinew]

oh I also created a component that showed real-time satellite data

[keen oyster]

hmm maybe not. can judt drop the real time bit then

[midnight sinew]

okay I could reword the last Northrop bulletpoint as:
"Implemented a custom UI renderer to display user-designed real-time satellite-monitoring dashboards."

[keen oyster]

yeah, what technologies did u use? and what benefits did this dashboard have?

did it make it easier for users to debug issues or whatever? just something to think about

[midnight sinew]

from what I understand, it allowed the users to be able to quicker act on satellites with potential issues, but I wasn't really given the details of what the tool was used for

the point was to identify values that were out of range

I also added a couple features to graphs, such as limit lines

[keen oyster]

ok so maybe can dig into that. Not sure how it worked with your job but what was the problem statement when the task was given to u? did they say before hand like oh it takes users 20 minutes before they catch issues with satellites

so we need a tool that can help reduce that time

[midnight sinew]

it was the ones mentioned in the first bullet point

would it help if I mentioned them again in later bullet points?

[midnight sinew]

I can't think of any reason besides convenience since before it was very tedious to create a dashboard like that due to them using outdated technologies

[keen oyster]

i see

so maybe just say

“Implemented custom UI….., reducing time to catch fatal errors in satellites” or something of that nature

[midnight sinew]

okay, this is what I ended up changing it to:

I really appreciate your help on this KJ! 🙂

[slender idol]

remove the widow words because they are a lot.

also avoid using complete sentence. (I, me, myself, a, the...)

for each client --> for clients

Back end, front end are either a compound word or one word. if compoud then it is Back-End, if not, Backend.

Focused on providing --> provided?

[midnight sinew]

so you think instead of "Developed a web-based ground software application", "Developed web-based ground software application" sounds better?

[slender idol]

Yes, feel free to ask for my info source. Also just check other templates and u will find such pattern.

[midnight sinew]

got it, I'm gonna go fix those up

thank you!!

[midnight sinew]

even getting rid of the "a" here?
"Provided professional technical support with Windows and Microsoft 365 in a timely manner."

it just sounds wrong to me

but I am not a writer :)

[slender idol]

On time?

[slender idol]

Use tools, but never trust them not even AI, I caught them producing many grammatical errors.

[midnight sinew]

okay, I'll give those a shot!

[distant burrow]

a lot has been covered on formatting/writing; i will add a few observations from a technical standpoint:

• 'boosting search perf.... 13,000%': i would be more interested in the underlying numbers behind this (X latency to Y latency), and what technology was originally being used (demonstrate technology migration and the result in a digestible manner)
• 'ground software application' is confusing in isolated context - nobody knows what this means. mentioning satellite in the next point connects the dots a bit, but not directly/explicitly enough. you mention in this thread that the application is for checking/monitoring satellite info in some manner, just summarize it in a few words in the first point.
• 'designed and tested efficient algos"... details on this? certain algorithm names? why were they efficient? this is a potentially interesting point that could have more substance

[midnight sinew]

1. hmm, I thought the first bulletpoint made it fairly clear that it was Elasticsearch causing this increase? it was due to offloading the database load onto Elasticsearch, so they ended up running alongside each other, I don't remember the latencies though
2. I will work on that one
3. there were no specific algorithms used, it was more of writing code to display labels and lines correctly, so good amount of object manipulations, and I said it was efficient because it was approved by other devs to be used in the application

[distant burrow]

right, so for (1) you did clearly express that Elasticsearch caused the increase in performance - im saying that being specific in what the original datastore was (e.g. MySQL database) would add sharpness to this, and that using latency numbers would be more digestible than 'it's a bajillion percent better'. although if you dont remember then i guess do what you can 😛

[midnight sinew]

ohh I see what you mean, I don't think I can find the latency numbers but will definitely mention the previous DB, thank you for your help!!

[midnight sinew]

alright, what about "Configured Java Spring Boot back-end API to use Elasticsearch alongside Microsoft SQL Server, reducing database load, resulting in 13,000% lower search latency."

[distant burrow]

that's something... just be prepared for interviewers to ask you details about it (whether or not you have the answers). fwiw, i've done a similar thing in the past (SQL alongside elastic), and i was asked further questions - hence my suggestions here