Resume Review, 2024 SWE Intern

[worn gorge]

I wouldn't mention "5000 line". Saying how many lines your wrote is never a good idea

because someone might write a different solution to your code in way less lines.

also 5000 lines is barley anything. Most SWE write more than that in a week

drove $5M in revenue is crazy. Be sure to be able to back up how YOU did that when they ask for proof.

I would also recommend adding a few more languages in your technical skills. Looks a bit empty. If you don't know any, you could probably learn a few in a couple weeks

[stiff raptor]

yeah i'm with you on the 5,000 lines thing, i think at the time i was writing it i just wanted to appeal to lay recruiters who don't rly have a lot of technical knowledge. but recruiters regardless of technical knowledge probably know this right? so on net it looks negative to keep it on resume?

[stiff raptor]

oops yeah looking back on the 5m thing w/o context it does look a bit outlandish LMAO... i do have a valid reason/true story for why i said that (tl;dr a bunch of factors led to me being given huge responsibility from day one) so while i def wasn't the sole driver i think i did make a significant impact on that number. i fs don't want to over-embellish, so do you think it would be better to write something along the lines of "Instrumental to" or "Helped drive" instead to show a large impact while not sounding like cap?

[stiff raptor]

i didn't want to put too many bc i'm scared that if i put JavaScript or some other language i'm not too comfortable with they would ask me some insane syntax or language question... do you think it would be good to specify proficient vs. familiar for interviews and fill up the bottom?

[worn gorge]

Ya you want to add numbers and percentages but if you were in a team or you weren't the only factor I'd say something along the lines of "helped drive"

[worn gorge]

I don't think specifing proficiency is a good idea. Having the language you know (and they are looking for) on there will drive a conversation of how knowledgeable you are on them / what work you did with them

I do think you can pick up alot of languages pretty fast though. Considering you know C/C++ C# python and Java

Most languages use similar logic. It's just syntax and usage of the language

Also I think the biggest advice is know what you want to get into. If you want to get into full stack. Focus your project on that and have stuff like html css. If you wanna focus on cloud or security focus on the language and projects section towards that.

At the end of the day. Companies want to hire someone who is an expert in one thing. Not a know it all but not an expert

[hidden arrow]

So you wrote 5000 lines of code, what was the actual business impact of that? You could probably combine the first 2 bullet points into one

[stiff raptor]

ok, thank you so much for the advice! that was really helpful and i'll keep all those things in mind. do u see any other major changes needed for my resume / have any other general advice?