#1.5 YoE, Need resume advice! Thanks!

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latent egret
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You did autocad work with full stack e-commerce and cloud/security? What exactly were you working on?

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Strictly speaking, the main issue I’m having w this resume is communication - specifically, how to make it make sense. Were you a sole developer on a startup? Given your ownership on the platform, what were your business metrics (e.g., visitors, conversion ratio, revenue)? How were the cost savings or other relative percentage-based metrics calculated?

I would only be inclined to interview you for another startup role if you can adequately answer the above in your resume. IMO there are a lot of red/yellow flags - e.g., using stripe professionally comes with a lot of pitfalls (previously worked w a payments systems startup), and just saying you used stripe actually hurts your resume more than helps it here.

latent egret
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Even if you’re uninvolved with sales, as a startup, I expect you to take full ownership over any and all business outcomes there - this is the trait that all of the more successful engineers I know have in common (specifically product alignment).

Even if your revenue is shit, find some way to sell yourself on the success of the business. You being a sole developer and not having confidence in your own business is immediately a red flag that you need to resolve asap.

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One of the failed B2B startups I’ve worked with only managed to sell to 3 firms before shutting down - I peddle the positive outcome ($9k mrr) out of this for my resume and interviews if needed

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Push back?