shit resume

[lofty kernel]

Try to think about what can make you stand out from other applicants

maybe it's the way you apply to things

and the projects you do

Are you trying to do Backend?

[shadow rune]

yep

but my exp is mostly frontend lol

[shadow rune]

wdym by this?

also appreciate the help btw

[lofty kernel]

what do you think is missing in your resume?

why do you think you're not getting interviews

[lofty kernel]

essentially what I'm getting at: how do you apply to jobs?

[shadow rune]

nothing special, j apply thru job postings
maybe i should reachout to recruiters more on LI, and do more cold emails

[shadow rune]

maybe a big n/faang internship lol, but thats prolly not whats gapping me

[lofty kernel]

yeah think more about it

[lofty kernel]

yeah that's one way for sure

[shadow rune]

hmm, i was able to get an interview for apple last year for an internal tools team (a masters student got it instead), so maybe my resume isnt being tailored to a specifc role? its j generic

[lofty kernel]

yeah exactly

besides tailoring think about how you can stand out

and also what technologies you are missing

and how you can pick them up and learn

and build bigger and better projects with them

That's essentially what's missing so fix that and also make your resume concise and word things well

and then you should be solid

[stiff rock]

Where’d you get the distributed fault tolerant key value store project from

I’ve seen a lot of people with that exact same project, just wondering which course it’s from

[vale gazelle]

dude dont link each of ur work exp lol

looks weird

[shadow rune]

its j their githubs

[vale gazelle]

i would add that for projects

not work exp

[shadow rune]

k

[shadow rune]

i have 267 stars on a npm package, u think its worth adding tha?

[vale gazelle]

for sure

100%

[shadow rune]

imma dm the link, cuz idt its acc that deep

[vale gazelle]

things that other cs majors dont likely have

are worth adding

i.e. have u won any math/ coding comps

repos with large number of forks/stars/users

etc.

[empty lynx]

Idk if u should go for backend jobs

You don’t rly have any backend work

Any flask django projects?

[shadow rune]

the ieee one is django

[shadow rune]

the key value store uses flask

[shadow rune]

i dont go for them exclusivley, but i would take them over frontend anyday
u think i need more backend projects/ if so u got any suggestions

[empty lynx]

Def need more backend projects

Ur projects sound too simple

Like CLI and stuff

Def can develop an API

[shadow rune]

💀 , maybe it looks from the description, but theyre def not imo

[shadow rune]

fs

[empty lynx]

That key value pair thingy I’ve seen it so often

Is it from a course or smth?

[shadow rune]

yes its a common distributed sys course project lol

[empty lynx]

Ngl phone from sig is still pretty impressive

[shadow rune]

j got lucky

[empty lynx]

I think ur resume rly isn’t an issue

It’s just that it’s tough for Canadian students in US markets unless ur from waterloo

[shadow rune]

i am a US citizen tho

i got that on the top of my res lol

[empty lynx]

Oh nvm lol

[shadow rune]

sent a dm

[vale gazelle]

Looks way better imo

I personally wouldn’t link work exp

Try to link ur first project too

[shadow rune]

its a school proj, and they dont let u make it public 💀

[shadow rune]

even if its open source work on github?

[vale gazelle]

Wouldn’t that be more project rather than exp

Like I think linking a webpage is find if it’s for ur LinkedIn

But linking work exp is just weird to me

[shadow rune]

u think it can pass big n/faang?

[vale gazelle]

amazon prob

others prob no

butim more of a pessimist/realist

if anything

anythings possible mate

[shadow rune]

tru

[shadow rune]

what do u think is gapping me?

[vale gazelle]

internship prestige

[shadow rune]

Tuff

[lofty kernel]

ehh I got an offer in FAANG without a top tier internship so don't let that discourage u