#PLEASE ROAST MY RESUME!!! Student looking for Summer 2025 internship.

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spice siren
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PLEASE ROAST MY RESUME!!! Student looking for Summer 2025 internship.

digital turtle
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its a really good resume:

pluses:

  • good information a lot of key words
  • shows impact and how you leveraged technologies

things to fix (imo, not a law):

  • its dense and imo a little too dense
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there are a LOT of keywords and a lot of content, which is good but with your resume I find it hard to follow along. I would also use a little more spacing between bullet points for each experience

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It may seem like bad advice tbh I thought it was too... my resume was like yours very dense and a lot of content, but an old internship boss made some good points

  • for one he said that all they want to see is profiency and impact, if you write more than you have to to convey this then it's just distracting content
  • the goal is to provide recruiter/managers with a big idea of what you are trying to do with a project/internship and then show you impact and improvements which entices them to want to talk to you about it
  • the logic is that they have to read a lot of these resumes, so it'll be beneficial for you to make them easy reads
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overall keywords and stuff are fine GL

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so i.e. keep bullets which show impact, make concise, improve spacing

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p.s. my interview/oa rate became better after doing this ^^

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for the first experience tht 2nd bullet could be split into two for each experience aim to have 2-3 HIGH Impact bullet points -- each bullet should be a relatively large project/task with noticable impact

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impact as in % info for impact AS WELL AS most impactful for team/company

proper gorge
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+1 to all the above - whitespace and readability are most lacking here.

You're overindexing on buzzwords and it's making it difficult to parse what you did. Fortunately, you made it relatively clear in your first bullets what you did so there's no need to question it

I would cut down all the fluff on your bullets, cut your coursework since you have enough technical experience, and cut down on your multi-liners to give more breathing room. You don't need to mention you used matplotlib, "Docker for containerization" or "Git for version control".

Digging deeper, you do have areas where it does smell like BS, particularly your interview project (how did you achieve "enterprise-grade", or determine how you cut recruitment timelines? Did you actually process 1k+ hours of interviews?) so I would go through those and clean it all

digital turtle
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Honestly hot take is you don't need TOO many buzzwords

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pick the most important programming language and maybe 1-2 most important frameworks

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THEN in the interview clarify on the details and why you made those technical decisions

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I can find a bullet I made for one of mine hold on

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Refactored and expanded existing data post-processor to perform all calculations natively in Python (5x speedup),
produce more compressed binary files, allow for file conversions, and writing data to lab Riak NoSQL DB

This was one project took like on-and-off most of the summer I was interning (i did more lmao but this was the biggest)

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I picked 1 programming language and 1 DB

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I used a bunch of libraries and frameworks

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BUT

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interviewers don't NEED to know that when reading

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they will ask during your interview and you have a while to explain technical experience anyway... then it is a good idea to talk about specifics and how you did things

digital turtle
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definitely hype up some numbers

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BUT don't make crazy claims like enterprise level software

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if you did, great! if not, it's ok

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we are undergrads personally im 19

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i don't think they expect someone of our age to do all of this for a personal project

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overall insane resume better than mine content wise

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just tweak the spacing and wording and you are okay

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u go to berk btw lmao?

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@spice siren

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oh ok lmao

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into python java dsa is a berk thing i don't go but a lot of friends do lmfao

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ah i see

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what year ar u

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oh word up same

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u got a devious resume for a soph damn

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ivy too gahdamn

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ah

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its ok

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head up high u got this

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uc irvine athletic scholarship tho

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play bball

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ye i play power forward not much of a shooter

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im kidding btw not a bball

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player

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LMAO

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i go to UCIrvine

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but for cs

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no scholarship

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lmao bahaha

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its chill ye

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cornell is insane

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it will