#100+ applications and no interviews. Be honest, am I cooked? What am I doing wrong?

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modern gust
restive summit
# modern gust

Definitely not cooked

  1. I would include past job experience even if its not technical. Companies need to see that someone else was willing to hire you, it makes you less risky in their eyes. If you don't have any past experience get some. You can also join a club or volunteer to help pad this section (and companies LOVE relevant volunteer work, especially local ones)

  2. This might be controversial but remove the accomplishments section. It awesome that you completed all those leetcode problems but no one (especially in at the first internship level) is going to care

  3. I like your projects a lot and I think they are pretty well worded. Try going over them and pretending you have zero technical experience. You should be able to understand at least 70% of the stuff in the projects or be able to figure it out via context clues.

modern gust
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Thank you for the detailed feedback, especially the kind words about my projects.

modern gust
cursive kraken
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Try getting atleast 1 experience there - be it tech club , unpaid internship, freelance

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Some tech experience

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For projects u need to build projects that actually do include modern tech stack. Try removing the second project completely off from there and switching it with something that ain’t too cliche

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Def not cooked but u need to get on a grind to have a better resume