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#wanting jemin review
red thistle
formal fern
wanting jemin review
subtle cairn
I’m having a difficult time grasping your domain - you seem to be a backend-leaning full stack dev but it doesn’t come through very clearly.
You go a little too back and forth between high product-level detail and low implementation-level detail, and vice versa. In this particular case, it makes your resume confusing (to the point where I get whiplash) and seemingly full of BS (esp when I go from “improved lokomotive API for gps updates, cutting latency and…” to “developed caching with Redis and database pooling…” - both bullets here are bad).
One way I would try to make it clearer by bolding your relevant tech in this case. Your 3rd experience prefaces with React (which indicates a frontend-oriented role) which I would try to avoid here.
You’re also over indexing on phrases and keywords to pump up your resume but tbh it makes your bullets come off as more BS than not (e.g., “for scalable, reliable services”)
Part of me would actually be inclined to take out your second experience or move it to projects, considering it’s a startup with little hand in the business. Unless you have business metrics to add to it that you had a hand in (particularly if it was high growth), it actually detracts from your resume for me, especially with the conflicting timeline with your current internship.
Would also drop the “Lead Software Engineer” title (top grandiose)
But yea, main takeaways are to cut down on trivial implementation detail and bs, and try to narrow your resume to what really matters so it comes across clearly. Less can be more
subtle cairn
People with more internships are actually doing worse in this market so I wouldn’t count on the experience part. If it’s low user/revenue I would 100% be inclined to move it to projects, esp if it’s something that’s ongoing - having something people use is honestly one of the more ideal projects to have. The bullets you have for it “led backend development” also make you look like you’re overstating your role for an internship
Shifting focus to real internships helps yes, especially if you have big names. It helps that you have real revenue traction for your own startup
Whether it shapes up will depend on your ability to refresh basically all of this resume imo lol but as it stands I find you to be a questionable candidate considering your content
But I do have higher standards because I come from startup background, so we’re more exhaustive in our hiring process
subtle cairn
Yep, it’s better overall to focus on impact like this unless you’re tailoring it to the job posting. I really only have a few minor nits with this particular resume - but it would get an automatic pass for me
Readability and consistency are huge, esp when you consider the volume of applicants in the recent recruiting cycles