#Haven't gotten past a single resume screen for the past month

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nocturne iris
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Started applying in early august and got past initial resume screen from Tiktok, Roblox and Stripe, but other than that, I have not gotten any processes. For the past month specifically I've been getting auto rejected from everywhere and have gotten no processes at all so I'm wondering what's wrong.

I've been applying to every and any SWE internship opening I can find, including very bad and very good ones.

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some things I'm debating:

  • changing titles from co-founder / lead software engineer to just "software engineer"

  • going into less details on bullet points (too cluttered?)

  • adding a research position I have just started this week, as I'm afraid my lack of formal work experience is impacting me. However, idrk if there's much I can write about this as I haven't done much in the position yet

lmk thoughts on these

runic tendon
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changing titles from co-founder / lead software engineer to just "software engineer"
Please do, it'll come of as very boastful or corny when you run into an engineering manager who has been working for 15-17 years. He'd be either impressed or outright reject you, no inbetweens

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going into less details on bullet points (too cluttered?)

Remove highlights from some of the generic stuff like rest api, orm etc

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I'd say avoid putting anything on your resume that you can't confidently explain. Which is also I pretty much have created another document that contains explanation and context of whatever I have on my resume

nocturne iris
runic tendon
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I think you can use less highlighting at some places