summer 25 internship recruitment

[carmine moon]

Not passing screens so rewrote

also just wondering if where i'm at is normal + what firms I should be targetting given i've switched into cs fairly late

Just would highly appreciate any tips in terms of rewriting / getting interviews

[hazy solar]

for swe my eyes are glazing over reading the first bullet of the first experience. It gives no indication of software work and makes it sound like you're doing physics on paper or something.
Unfortunately, it might be best to relegate the description of what you do to even less than a bullet point. For example writing "Research Assistant, XYZ physics lab"

would think about moving the internship to the top, which would remain ordered by start date so ur not breaking any convention by doing that

bullet points are consistently a bit long. when they all fill up 1 line or 2 lines it starts feeling like a wall of text

I would rephrase the last bullet of the first experience to be less roundabout; "avoiding the computational expense of" could be changed to a more active tense like "improved on traditional methods in <XYZ criteria>"

Consider having 1 repository link per project instead of linking to your whole github. Forcing the reader to search through github makes it even less likely that they check it out.

change "other" to "interests"

middle bullet point of project 3 is not really interesting

I would think about dropping either the PE internship or one of your projects; perhaps you could make the choice on a per-company basis. The resume feels like too many lines which makes it hard to read and therefore is a turn-off.

pybind11 bullet can likewise be removed

"Utilized Python" is a bit too passive and further feeds the impression that you're a physics major with less-than-ideal coding proficiency. Make it more active like "Leveraged Monte-Carlo methods and dimensionality reduction using Python to ..."

[carmine moon]

Yeah honestly is less swe stuff which is what i was worried about and more ml if anything, just didn’t want to have a current experience be at the bottom with stuff that ended at the top

I’ll try and do that though hopefully it doesn’t look too bad to recruiters

[carmine moon]

Thank you

[carmine moon]

Should i make them not go to the ending of the page?

[carmine moon]

fair thanks

[carmine moon]

I had one of the projects dropped before but i readded it to try and see if it helps, could def reduce some wording there

[carmine moon]

This is a good call i didn’t notice that, thanks 🙂

so overall you’d just say to make it less wordy? more easy to read?

honestly could maybe try and rephrase the research thing into “developing tools for xyz task in physics” rather than “doing xyz research in physics using tools” too if that helps

still working on it 😔

hopefully at some point though

Past ones pushed it a lot more than we have

And we can probably get better result still

this is more math research than actual physics ngl

[hybrid peak]

Tbh if you want to add github link just put it at the top with your email + phone number

[carmine moon]

i’ll try that out

[hybrid peak]

Also adding uni email is a lil redundant imo

[carmine moon]

fair

[hazy solar]

in terms of line length:
filling N lines and like one word over < totally filling N+1 lines (if many of your lines are already filled, since it starts looking like paragraphs and is hard to read) < filling N lines and another halfway

[carmine moon]

Will still try and make it a bit more readable too based on this

Just not sure about putting research at the very bottom though, since having some no name firm where i didn’t do much being top experience instead research at a known school working with something interesting

u sure that’s okay?

[hazy solar]

my advice was below the top internship

not necessarily at bottom

sorry ig that was unclear given you have multiple internships listed

but I meant swap experiences 1 and 2 of the original resume

[carmine moon]

Hm okay

it’s still out of order then though or does that not rly matter

Bc research begun before lower internship

[hazy solar]

oh i didnt notice

i think it's minor enough nobody will ding you for it

so depends which one has better bullets

[carmine moon]

Hm

thank you for all the help

i think i’ll just try keeping it at the bottom for rn for swe roles and see how it goes