#applying swe 2026 ng/intern, roast me

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fossil valve
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Woahhhhhh chat pdf

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jk

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it's good but it's not really impressive

fossil valve
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idk bro

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think about how to stand out from the millions of other resumes

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use ur mind

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what makes u different

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it's a competition the answer isn't simple

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it's not binary just make it better

fossil valve
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i'm being vague intentioanlly so u can think

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fck i cant spell

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small hint I have eagle scout on my resume

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make urself shine

fossil valve
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@uneven spindle get this guy, he must not like my response

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dono walled

uneven spindle
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ngl i alr been thru this guy i think

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based on the resume

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@fossil valve

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i think he attendd one of my sessions which is why its formatted well

fossil valve
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Like I could go into detail but it's the same things over and over so I tell em to be creative

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cause when ur resume is already good, and ur still not getting call backs or whatev, u just gotta be creative

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but title says "applying" so u should be good

fossil valve
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After reading it more I can tell Arya helped u it's rlly fkin good

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A few things

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  • I'm a disbeliever in listing technologies used by project name, that's what the skills section is for so it's redundant. Also, you're missing an opportunity to talk about and bold how you used those technologies in the actual description.

  • Take out research from experience section, it's not a job. Move it to a section called "research". More sections add more color to your resume and it makes your resume looks more concise. Would you rather read a book with 20 chapters, or 1 long chapter?

  • You have too many projects. 1 should be good enough since you have 3 internships. This makes space for a new section too. Adding a section to jakes isnt hard, just copy and paste the experience section and call it research

  • Company first or role first is discretion based. Big tech/big names = company should go on top. The only reason not to do this is if you have varying roles, but all your roles are SWE so it just looks redundant. Switch it up.

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The project removal should help cut down on words too, I just know your font size is at the minimum trying to cram all that. You want your resume to have as little words as possible with the largest font possible

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  • Also put the team name by each of your internships so people actually know what your probably did at a glance ( but actually don't do this if your teams aren't interesting or don't fit the role cause this might short circuit your eval)
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I kinda got lucky, I literally did the same thing at all 3 of my internships so mine is make or break with the team names

harsh estuary
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@wheat gust resumes good, but action words like "built" could be improved. I recommend just telling chat gpt "you, chatgpt, are a SWE recruiter for F500 companies" and ask it questions ab your resume

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its good for wording

harsh estuary
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Pioneered

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developed

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engineered

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Designed

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implemented

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integrated

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fat ri

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rip

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LMFAO

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ig us CS guys just have limited vocab

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i think ur ressy is solid man

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if ur not getting stuff its gonna be cus ur school.

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have u been getting OA's/interviews?

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congrats

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yeah i think u just gotta spam applications

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also i'd make different resumes for different positons

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i have some differences in content too

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like for ML i emphasize research more

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My non-auto OA rate has been like 10% and call back like 2-5% tho so

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🤷‍♂️

fossil valve
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There's just no way u refuted all my points 💀

harsh estuary
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^ objectively valid, in his case

fossil valve
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  • This reason does not justify putting research in your job experience section
  • Listing technologies used without describing how they were used, you might as well just leave them off it's clutter I promise
  • Sure, but unless they are class B startups, i'd put the name, cause someone might recognize it and swe intern, swe intern, swe intern, in big bold 14 pt font is redundant
  • Ok, I thought jake's font size was bigger, mb
fossil valve
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???

harsh estuary
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its subjective

fossil valve
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how were they not objectively valid

harsh estuary
fossil valve
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wait why are we arguing objective validity, nothing is objectively valid except school, grad date, name, phone, etc..

harsh estuary
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some stuff like "Explain how tools are used"

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is universally recognized as helpful to the recruiter

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but research as expwerience or not? eh

fossil valve
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just cause everyone does it, doesn't mean it's objectively valid

harsh estuary
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fair

fossil valve
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the goal is not to be like everyone else

harsh estuary
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i change my statement to reflect that then, whatever the right word might be

harsh estuary
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fucking up the traditinal organization just makes it harder to parse

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which if youve ever read 1000 rsumes

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very annoying

fossil valve
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so if organization of your resume doesn't matter then why is Jake's popular

harsh estuary
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you should use whats common

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so that its easy to parse for recruiter

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and for scanners at that

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messing with the cannaical organization of a resume is just annoying

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jakes resume and anything that looks like it is the standard for a reason

fossil valve
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jake's is no easier to parse than a standard template

harsh estuary
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and research goes under experience if u dont have multiple publicatoons for a reason

harsh estuary
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any one collumn standard template will do

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people use jakes resume cus recruiters are slightly more used to it, works for most resume readers, and its convenient and online

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^ the resume standard is not the same in non-swe fields

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cus those recruiters are used to different formats and styles

fossil valve
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people don't use Jake's because recruiters are more used to it, that's not the reason

harsh estuary
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MY Original point tho is a uniquely organized resume is not helpful

harsh estuary
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its just good

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scanners pick it up

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its easy to parse

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keeps you from yapping too much

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either way this is the most pointless argument every cus 90% of a resume is subjectve, organize urs how u like but im dipping

fossil valve
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like I said jake's is as easy to parse as a standard template

fossil valve
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if org didn't matter everyone would use a word doc for their resume

harsh estuary
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a) stop pinging me
b) the context of that statement was u were claiming ur resume should be unique

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the claim is that the organization should not be so unique as to stand out

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cus any deviation signifcant enough to be unique is likely to decrease the ease of parse

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AND STOP PINGING ME

fossil valve
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we're trying to polish a great resume here the content is already good

harsh estuary
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dude

fossil valve
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you're just yapping 😂

harsh estuary
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i agree with half of what u said

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and disagree with the other half

harsh estuary
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i tend to do that LOL

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hence, lemme leave

vast trout
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Not bad overall, going over your most recent iteration of this from what you posted in a comment earlier:

General

  • As you're gaining more work experience, I'd be wary of putting org roles (hackathon) under experience on your resume, esp when you have simultaneous dates - some recruiters flag this without reading deeper into your bullets. This would fit better in a "Leadership & Involvement" section or something similar, which some recruiters (e.g., Meta, MSFT, C1) look for
  • I'd tailor your skills based on the role you're applying to, you're all over the place esp with your concepts
  • In this particular case, I would consider not bolding metrics as they don't really add or highlight anything super impressive here. More recruiters prefer candidates that bold tech used if you're applying to more specific roles

Projects

  • If you're going to list out skills in projects, I would personally avoid also including them in your bullets as it's trivial (esp when it takes up half your bullet) - this should be a deeper dive into more interesting topics
  • "Engineered a machine learning model..." - use any other word ("built", "trained") besides "engineered" lol
  • How does data viz improve prediction accuracy?
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Experience
Small Startup

  • Developing a platform that does what? The latter half adds very little value - just say "Developing [.... what exactly you're building] using Vue.js and GraphQL

Research lab

  • It's a little confusing what exactly your focus was here so I would focus on clarifying that with your first bullet
  • improve grading efficiency as measured by?

Startup

  • This whole thing could use a significant rewrite for both clarity and simplify how you communicate impact
  • I'd remove bullet 2, especially if you're going for higher end companies as it adds no value to swe exp. If you wanna talk about CI/CD, integrate that elsewhere (idk what you would have to talk about here actually). If you want to talk about your teamwork, integrate that into your first bullet ("Founded a XX-person startup...")
  • Bullet 3 can use a rewrite - scale would be the wrong verb here considering industry context and lack of correlation with your impact. You attracted 8.3k users by optimizing db performance? If you're using Firebase, and this is your startup, is this really a something you want to communicate to an eng manager?
  • In fact, I would probably put your user count in the first or second bullet as it's the most clear evidence of how well your startup did, and remove the # opportunities. You can combine this with your last bullet (which is also pretty weak, and implementation heavy) -> "Released a mobile app for iOS and Android with xxxx [downloads/users] using Flutter and Firebase"
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At a glance, your resume is good for an intern, but I would consider your resume more carefully from a more experienced lens if you wanna elevate it

uneven spindle
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  1. no opion
  2. projects wont rly pass screens for u imo.. u can point to a project and say oh yeah i have exp but it doesnt rly stand as proper experience in that tech for anyone. im not telling u to remove or add that up to u and billionaire but i will say this isnt a super great reason to argue for keeping it. if u want u can reduce content a bit if ur tryna give ur resume room to breat. maybe a bullet off one or two projs? once you start to get solid exp, projs become increasingly less important. my entire projects section with 6 projects is 6 lnies (every line has title + brief desc + stack)
  3. switch them anyways the comp name will always be more valuable, theres no reason NOT to switch imo
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personal thoughts

uneven spindle
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like

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that WONT elevate it becase he IS an intern which is why the resume reads like an intern's

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ft style resumes arent objectively > intern style because they appeal to different recruiting ideologies (experience and specific skillset vs curiosity, involvement in community, dont have extreme preference towards specific skills or exp*)

*some might, for specific positions or industries, but this is a general resume

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my thoughts

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seems solid overall @wheat gust one thing id say is to consider a lot of billions advice. he got me right until i figured out my own philosophy / style for resumes. he gives really solid content advice as well

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but i dont think you are in a bad place

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how have things been going for you since i took a look at ur resume?

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and dont tailor your concepts. its too much work for too little return when intern recruiting. maybe for ft its valuable

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oh shit nice

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gl with plaid

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lmk how it goes :)

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sry didnt see ur prev msg

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they think you could be one of those 10 or they wouldnt have given you final

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go razy

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crazy

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yep

fossil valve
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Another thing I wanna add to the point of listing out your entire tech stack for each project. It's ok that the description doesn't touch each point. You shouldn't really care about highlighting react or postgres in your project description. What you should highlight are super interesting niche technologies that could catch someone's eye like Redis or Langchain

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But like in your case it's kind of hard for you cause you have 3 proj so you don't have any room for depth. So 2 options, 1 big project, with a lot of depth, or multiple 1-liners similar to Arya's. Quantity might benefit you since you're an intern.

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and it's perfectly okay to have 1 entity in a section

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Quite frankly, naming your projects waste a bunch of time when a recruiter wants to know what you built. But if you wanna keep the project names, you can use the space to the right of it to describe what it actually is, and this saves you a bullet point.

For e.g.

ConnX4 | Multiplayer Connect4 game

  • How you leveraged some parts of your tech stack..
  • metrics & impact with all these, treat the projects like job exp too, not just a chore list
vast trout
fossil valve
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You can use technologies in different ways, it's great to specify how it was used and the impact that came from it

vast trout
# fossil valve I disagree

This is fine, but it seemed your suggestion leaned towards requiring more bullets to explain how each part of the stack was used

fossil valve
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Yeah for context look at his 2nd bullet here, he was iffy ab delisting the tech stack so I was explaining a sample route he could take. You def don't wanna describe how you used each and every part of the stack

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I fixed it

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duh

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when's the deadline

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ask for an extension, and if they say no, accept and renege for a better one

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when did you get the offfer

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so 2 weeks

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atmost they'll give you an extra week

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so accept and renege

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yeah I accepted & reneged twitch for my internship this past summer

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guess what

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they ended up rescinding offers anyway for economical reasons

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dodged a bullet

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yup

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there's no loyalty

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more prestigious company

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can work anywhere I want w it on my res

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new and bigger names

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10000%

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100000%

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it's a shame but company prestige trumps all

vast trout
fossil valve
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name beyond matters

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all this resume advice i'm giving, is under the assumption you don't have faang or big names

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I have a freind with zon, netflix + cit, he hasn't touched his res in years

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only to add new companies nothing else

vast trout
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One of my friends interned at Meta for 3 years straight but they rescinded offers last year so he had to scramble hard. Even accepting faang isn't safe nowadays lmao

fossil valve
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but once you have a big name you automatically stand out

fossil valve
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which is why I'm still not settling, leverage faang to chase better

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is the goal

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faang shouldn't become you're retirement place, it should become your new floor

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T5?

fossil valve
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should I @ him

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nah I won't do it

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😂

deft beacon
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regarldess switch role with company name. all his other advice isnt good

wheat gust
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applying swe 2026 ng/intern, roast me

opal epoch
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Goated update

shut comet
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is this js jake's tempalte modified?

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wondering if u should include group tutor tbh

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like i used to have TA on mine

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but should u now that u have more exp is the q

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maybe lmao

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which faang is it if u don't mind

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okay, grind ur heart out for that return

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lwk not sure if research section is helping u considering u seem to be interested in swe more than ml/ai research

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i'll tell u wt u could consider, create 2 seperate rezzies, one for swe n one for ml/ai research

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but honestly might not be worth the trouble

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since its not like u have a ton of exp

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ur impact is great

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its clean bro

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u sure this js normal jakes?

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feel like u have a lot more on there

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lwk that's smart, im wondering if removing locations is alr kermit_think

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cuz i think the location of my last internship act helped me get offszn this cycle

shut comet
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its ultimately up to u, i think its clean but u will eventually need more space, maybe remove the one u feel is least impressive

shut comet
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@wheat gust im revamping my rezzie, can u share w me how u got the job title to be on the same line as the company name. im trying to reformat it but there's built in \resumeSubheading commands in Jake's that need to editted

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smart cookie

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u js got rid of that line lmaooo

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n wrapped normal txt

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i was dtm trying to reformat the cmd

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prob ng for big tech n intern for orzers

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hey, so i act ended up creating a modified \resumeSubheading template u might find useful:

  \vspace{-2pt}\item
  \begin{tabular*}{0.97\textwidth}[t]{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
    \textbf{#1 \normalfont{$|$} \textit{\small #2}} & \small #3 \\
  \end{tabular*}\vspace{-7pt}%
}```
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lwk not sure

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wt r u aiming for?

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k so basically ur plans all hinge on wt j*b u get

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im basically the same

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i'll make adjustments if i get smth

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js role for now, its legit the same format as ur's but baked into the cmd