Need Help! May 2025 Grad. 0 callbacks except few auto OAs | cscareers.dev | Page 1

A lot places are taking a few weeks to get back to people, but for most others you need to be applying early and submitting OAs fast if applicable. At a glance, your resume looks fine, but these stand out to me:

Remove coursework, remove interests/domain
"Optimized costs" -> "Reduced costs"
How did you measure how you improved a11y?
Usage of "spearheaded" has recently been flagged as AI-generated by a few companies and can hurt you
How did you "cut effort by 70%"? Having bs "impact" automatically discounts the point for me
"surge" -> "increase"
How did you optimize a system with microservices? Very liberal use of "optimize" here
"Achieved 10,000+ concurrency..." what does this mean?
You slashed (also, please don't use "slash") EC2 load but increased throughput? Can you clarify?
LOC alone is not signal for your impact - in fact, it's looked down by a fair number of my colleagues
You "maximized data fetch efficiency by 18%"? What does this mean?
"Curtailed 15% customer fuel costs..." - this entire bullet might need to be rewritten for clarity, and please don't use "curtail"
"Elevated team productivity 25%" as measured by what?
"Augmented transaction effiency" as measured by what?
Achieving 99.99% uptime and data reliability is easy for a single deployment with <1000 users lol, you should reserve metrics like this when you have to handle distributed scaling

#Need Help! May 2025 Grad. 0 callbacks except few auto OAs