#DEAN W Resume Reiew(Only Recieved Rejections Thus Far)

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regal otter
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Thanks everyone for helping review in advance!

tardy bridge
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unnecessary whitespace

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inconsistent spacing

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personal info can be on same line as ur name

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can drop first bullet point of trading internship

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u use a lettered date in education and then go on to use numbered dates everywhere else, make it consistent

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bullet points are pretty bad, would review the pinned post

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make sure u properly capitalize technologies and languages

regal otter
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Ok thank you @tardy bridge! Do you think that is the reason I'm being rejected or is it the content of my resume?

fervent hinge
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You need a major resume rehaul

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use Jake’s template

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and use latex so it’s ATS parseable

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You most certainly need to keep 1 page

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concise and dense

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it’s only acceptable to have more than 1 page if you have tons of experience

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Your first experience has so many negatives in it - “but” , “cut short” , “in essence a ft employee” - remove all that and keep it objective and just list ur responsibilities and tasks - u can explain ur situation to the recruiter

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I also don’t like the way ur phrasing stuff

“Member of a team that did some high level thing”

“Began internship by delivering…” - this is meant to be a resume you can talk about your story during the interviews

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from your main bullets listed - a recruiter/HM is not going to have any clue what actual skills you bring to the table. Instead of saying “part of a team…” - lay out the SPECIFICS
“SWE on a 4 person team that created a custom JVM runtime optimized for low latency trading applications. Worked on identifying heap allocations and write core library code to identify memory leaks. Wrote a test suite to be used across minor version releases.”

Don’t put HTML/CSS as a language - remove git from languages. You’re not including ur gpa , maybe consider Skills at top , then experiences , then school

regal otter
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Corrected resume let me know what you guys think.

tardy bridge
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bullet points still arent really good

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Ill give you some examples

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Member of a team responsible for updating and optimizing an open-source JVM
** Whats wrong **

  1. vague “member of a team” isnt a helpful statement at all
  2. dont say HOW u updated or optimized anything
  3. no metrics

** How to Improve **
can say something like:

  • “Refactored open-source JVM project to leverage multi-threading, leading to an increase in JVM operating efficiency by 20%”
  • Integrated [some library/tech] into open-source JVM, allowing for [some update] , resulting in [some metric]
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please remove instances of pronouns, they are not necessary

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Ill provide another example as well

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Improved time complexity of several trading algorithms
** Whats wrong **

  1. vague
  2. doesnt tell anybody anything
  3. no metrics
  4. no tech used

** How to improve **

  • “Refactored trading algorithms to do [something], using [language], reducing [latency, time to run, etc] by XY%.
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you graduate soon, do you have ANY extracurriculars? leadership experience? clubs? volunteering? hackathons?

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you use a 3 letter abbreviation for august in education and then dont use any abbreviations anywhere else, would make it consistent

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IDEs are not necessary in skills

regal otter
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Here is my new resume, reconciling criticisms of the past.

regal otter
tardy bridge
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getting better, still could hse some work

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u still need to remove instances of pronouns

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now some of the bullets are too long, u should aim to keep bullets at 1-2 lines

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the 2nd bullet in cosatech is giving fluff

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“demonstrating my ability to …” DELETE.

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“promoted from running..” DELETE. save it for the interview

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“X percent” -> “X%”

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“these improvements showcased..” DELETE

tardy bridge
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u have 2 commas after “Git” in skills

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“Used beautiful soup” -> “Leveraged …”

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u still are pretty vague in how u did things.. how did u enhance performance??

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u have a hanging comma after “JFrame”

regal otter
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Magnus Opus RIGHT HERE!

regal otter
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Yo I just thought of a genius idea everuone let me know what you guys think. There is this website called resumerefiner.com that tells you(ai GPT based bot) whether or not you're likely to be called back after applying to a job. Then tells you about your missing experience. What if you do this for everyjob you want, then feed that output as an input to an ai resume builder that then builds the "model" resume. Genius what do you guys think?

zenith helm
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I'm familiar with the site. I don't think resumes built by bots are very good at this point. They're uncanny, and I imagine building the workflow is generally not going to be worthwhile.

regal otter
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his is officially my final draft of my resume. I appreciate everyones time in helping me. It was a pain in the damn ass but I genuinely believe it will be worth it in the long run.

regal otter
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Hello everyone I am back on the hunt again. Today marks day 1.

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Here is my new resume. Looking for feedback/ advice.

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Please discard previous review this please

regal otter
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Looking for review. Thanks.

little cosmos
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Just out of curiosity what is the GPA you havent posted?

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Some initial thoughts:

Overall this looks decent. Massively better than your original. Having 2 internships definitely should set you ahead of the pack.

With that said I would make it clear that these are internships. You have presented them like they are full time roles.

Some of the bullet points still have wonky phrasing or passive wording. I'm on mobile so hard to rewrite from here. Specific example would be the 3rd bullet point on your 2nd job.

regal otter
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No I'm employed as a full stack dev at some shitty startup(Revertly) but was an itern at Eldorado

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Thanks for the feedback tho @little cosmos I remember your pfp from a couple of months ago

little cosmos
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I definitely wouldnt call your employer shitty on a large forum like this using your real name and pfp.

regal otter
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I co-founded the damn company I can say what I want about it @little cosmos

hearty stone
regal otter
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You're not a good listener/reader

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At eldorado I was an intern

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I did not found that company

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I am currenlty employed at Revertly as I co-founded it

hearty stone
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Do you employed yourself?

tardy bridge
regal otter
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i apologize @tardy bridge @hearty stone

brave elm
# hearty stone Do you employed yourself?

Goal of you resume get through recruiter who most looks experiences and certain skills and criteria and land a interview. Otherwise they probably just skip and ignore. Once you get to interview, you can explain everything in honest without lying. That’s why it’s better make things certain way in resume.

brave elm
# regal otter I am currenlty employed at Revertly as I co-founded it

Same here, attempted startup and built it from ground up but didn’t succeed. I was also getting confused about what to write as job title, I tried Founder but doesn’t seem to work. Now after talking with chatgpt, thinking of putting “Lead developer and Product Manager” or full stack should be better? Building sth ground up as solo or few people is I would guess a lot harder than being full stack dev?

regal otter
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@brave elm hey man it is nice to meet you. Interesting that we share the same problem lol. What I was told by some of my friends in the industry is to NEVER identify yourself as CEO/Founder of a company. The reasoning is that companies are a bit confused because they're thinking to themselves: If you're startup is so great then why the hell are you applying for a job. They mentioned some other reasons to that I forgot but look up a guy on YT named Josh Fluke he has a good video on it. If I were you, I

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I'd put Full Stack Developer at X Company

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That way you can claim it as YOE as opposed to time lost to 'building a business' which no one in the corporate world cares about anyways.

brave elm
brave elm
# regal otter That way you can claim it as YOE as opposed to time lost to 'building a business...

Yeah, but I also didn’t want lost the opportunity show I attempted and built sth startup project instead of weekend YT tutorials project.

But I see now, here what we should do, when we’re applying regular dev jobs, we should keep Full-Stack but when applying for startups make it “Lead Developer” or “Founder” or maybe add hint like (attempted startup) or sth.

But do we even wanna work on startups, only one I would work for is OpenAI lol, but as for the rest, best would be to get remote job and continue our “shitty startups” 🙂

vocal crystalBOT
regal otter
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@brave elm agree wholehearteldy. That's what I've been doing as well, working full time and having the business on the side. Goes much better that way. The game never ends for me, I will keep trying to create a new product and innovate to get me out of 9-5 rat race/

brave elm
finite mulch
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Some comments on the resume:

  • Third bullet point under Revertly needs work. I would have it say simply e.g. "Increased revenue and website traffic by decreasing response time and creating more intuitive UI/UX
  • How is introducing OOP to reduce codebase size a response to algorithmic inefficiency?
  • If you were a founder/early developer at Revertly the bullet points do not reflect that to any effect. Having the listed "chief responsibility" be converting a winforms app to a different C++ library reads like you were an intern or entry level dev. You must have some work that shows more impact you can list
  • It looks like you typo'd the date range for the Eldorado Trading Group position. Should be "November 2022 - January 2023" like you have in the other versions (unless you did work there two separate months?)
regal otter
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Good points @finite mulch will take that in to consideration.

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@brave elm no so I haven't started my new project yet officially but am trying to get out of revertly. My goal is to land a job as a full stack dev before I start my business just so I have income coming in.

finite mulch
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When you get to the interview stage your narrative will work better regarding revertly if you avoid any mention/hint of being a (co-)founder

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You can claim to be a tech lead, principal dev, etc but I'd avoid claiming e.g. CTO, owner, or founder

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It gives you a story for why you worked there during uni and why you are leaving after ~6 months

little cosmos
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It's probably worth distinguishing between being a "founder" and being a "founding employee"

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These are not the same thing, and it's unclear which Dean is in this case.