#Freshman Resume

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upper elbow
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ur cooked just give up

brave burrow
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cooked beyond recognition

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how is attending a poster session considered an award

humble dirge
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i just got to college goddamn 😭

humble dirge
brave burrow
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not an award kek

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keep the chess and the other one tho

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add more projects

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html, css take those off lmao

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id remove activities from ur education and instead add more bullet points to your experiences

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also add numerical data to ur bullet points, like "improved x by y%" "this led to z% increase in sales, ROI whatever"

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and if ur a freshman wouldnt ur graduating year be 2028?

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the end.

humble dirge
polar idol
humble dirge
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how

polar idol
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Do everything John said then apply to the FAANG freshman and soph only programs

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like uberstar and google step

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stuff like that

humble dirge
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i thought it’s more likely to get into those as a sophomore tho

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i do apply to those tho

polar idol
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well if you say you’re a soph now, then you’re telling yourself this is your ur last year to do so

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if u say ur a freshman then you also have next year

humble dirge
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no i just won’t change it next year LOL

polar idol
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well if you graduate in 2027 then you’d be a junior next year

humble dirge
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i said i COULD graduate in 2027

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i probably won’t

polar idol
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Recruiters aren’t gonna look that deep into it

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if they see 2027 their first assumption is that you’re a junior

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Just keep it at 2028 until you’re 100% sure you’ll graduate in 2027

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imo

humble dirge
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ok

polar idol
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Plus you have lot of experience for a freshman

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you can use that leverage more opportunities when you get the chance

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But definitely fix those bullets using the xyz format

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at least have 3-4 bullets per experience

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as jemin would say too, make sure you have business impact

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ie: “implemented some algorithm or something to reduce api calls by 30% saving company 40k annually”

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or something like that emphasizing what u did was important and can do something for another company

brave burrow
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@humble dirge have u done ur dsa, stats, and discrete courses yet?

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if yeah, put 2027 and gaslight

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if no, dont put 2027

humble dirge
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stats and discrete next sem

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dsa yes

brave burrow
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but instead you should put more impressive stuff on ur resume and put 2028 so that when you apply for freshman/soph only positions like janestreet insight n stuff, you look that much more appealing

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present yourself as a ivy league top 1% and grind leetcode until you become one

humble dirge
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i see

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(got ghosted by jane street insight)

brave burrow
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jane street is competitive

humble dirge
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i made it to final stage of jane street amp ta i hear back soon

brave burrow
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its the least barrier to entry hedge fund

humble dirge
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i did jane street wise tho

brave burrow
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u go to rice which is good

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honestly ur bullet points just need to be more refined and appealing to the recruiters

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remember they come from ba, history, poli sci backgrounds

humble dirge
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💀💀💀

brave burrow
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also apply roblox

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roblox is very friendly towards freshman/soph

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too late now, but next year

ashen parcel
brave burrow
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no its easier

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but compared to other tech companies, roblox is nicer to younger students

ashen parcel
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Ah

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Do you have any tips for the OA

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@brave burrow

brave burrow
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its easy

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if youve done ur leetcode and u are good at solving problems

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ur chillin

brave burrow
magic hollow
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you have impressive experience and projects considering u just got into college but you have no metrics.

you should shohrten your courses (nobody cares abt the math classes u tookk, ur applying for programming roles)

get rid of awards that dont directly pertain to the jobs you apply for, thats wasted space that could go to +1 bullet point on somethhing else

it seems you wanna g et into ML roles, and while you have good experieince in it, you arent demonstrating ability to work on the full end-to-end ML pipeline. all you are doing is training and evaluating models, but you're missing things pertaining to the data and actually serving thhe model (deplpoyment)

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you have a really good foundation though keep it up. if you continue to improve ur skillset youll get somewhere good

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you seem to be shohrt changing yourself by trying to include information like courses or activities or (some) awards that forces you to have less info on what actually matters. first and foremost your exerience matters, so don't sacrifice space on your experience for the sake of things people wont care abt

brave burrow
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i disagree with the second line

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the brackets part

magic hollow
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hm it depends the roles i guss

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to double down on your entire experience being ml, replace nand2tetris with a new project but this time work on the entire end to end pipeline, somethhing that goes deeper than just training existing models

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what people love to see on your resume is how your ML system scales and how it introduces cost optimization

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because in the end what good is ML or any project in the coroprate world if it does not reduce operating costs or generate revenue

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also a prime mistakke i can see is going too technical with your description for ML projects.

The first person reading your reusme doesnt know and doesnt care what principal component analysis, federated learning, topic modeling, etc are

i strongly recommend you gloss over the technical details, only keep what is strictly necessary for understanding and just talk about the impact your project made with numbers. scalability, users, cost optimizations, etc

if you wanna talk super technical, talk in the interview. not on your resume

gaunt panther
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@humble dirge whats ur name

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i also play chess competitively in texas might know you

humble dirge
humble dirge
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w my math and chess i was looking at quant

magic hollow
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If looking at quant keep the math

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And the chess

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But if you could perhaps word your resume a bit more strongly to software with the extra lines from removing some stuff then maybe have 2 versions

midnight flicker
jaunty pivot
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you should be a bit more specific in experience section

humble dirge
humble dirge
jaunty pivot
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you say you used a "tensorflow" bot, but you don't say what you did to actually make it

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like tensorflow has cv, nlp, machine translation/perception, its v broad

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same w the fantix ai position

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add hyperlink for that paper in projects

humble dirge
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i’m gonna be fr my resume is completely different

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now

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it’s been like a month

jaunty pivot
silent flower
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(imo)

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Other than that you mog every freshman resume ive seen

half badger