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proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:41 PM

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Pls help

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:45 PM

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founder might be bad

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are the 2 interns real companies?

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:45 PM

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balmy holly are the 2 interns real companies?

yes

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:46 PM

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balmy holly founder might be bad

i get that saying founder might be a negative signal. but shouldn't it good? getting real downloads and revenue?

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:46 PM

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agree and agree

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:47 PM

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ik it's not anything INSANE but i just feel like it should set me apart

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:47 PM

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its fine

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how many apps?

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:48 PM

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i dont track but at least 100 id say

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:48 PM

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not enough

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if u cant say confidently at least 300 by now thats bad

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in this economy especially

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:48 PM

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yeah put Lead Developer instead of Founder

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:48 PM

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^

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:49 PM

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bullet points are a little wordy

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:49 PM

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agree aswell

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but i was more worried about the actual names first

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:49 PM

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i think you should also bold the skills more

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:49 PM

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how do u feel abt crud bullets

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:49 PM

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balmy holly but i was more worried about the actual names first

names of what

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:50 PM

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of the companies

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like if they were real or not

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:50 PM

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yeah thats what i was thinking

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:50 PM

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like is stuff like this good to put

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:50 PM

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0 interviews probably thought no-name startups

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:50 PM

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like what exactly is developing a rest api

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yeah thats fine

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if anything you prob didnt apply enough

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:50 PM

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no-name startups arent doing so well on resumes these days bc a lot of ppl are just vibe coding a made up startup

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:51 PM

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yea

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the resume could be worded better though

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:51 PM

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wait also when did you apply

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:51 PM

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like cut some fluff and make it mroe direct

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:51 PM

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recruiting ended in november

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:51 PM

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does it really end that early

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:51 PM

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ok actually i retract

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amazon is still hiring

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:51 PM

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to be honest i fucked myself over

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:51 PM

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meta went late

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:52 PM

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amazon still hiring 🙏

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:52 PM

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and didnt apply enough early on

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:52 PM

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but in most years peak hiring is sep-nov

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:52 PM

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probably why t hen

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i mean your resume is not bad

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2 real intern is good

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i really do not like putting mobile dev though

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:52 PM

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school?

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:52 PM

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i feel like it hits 0 keywords

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:52 PM

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rutgers

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:52 PM

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balmy holly i really do not like putting mobile dev though

yeah put Software Engineer lmao

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:53 PM

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yeah but then arent the bullets bad too

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starting to think amazon saves lives by letting u work on aws

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:53 PM

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oh also for classes put DSA first

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and get rid of calc

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:54 PM

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🐉

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:54 PM

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recruiters dont care if you know how to integrate the volume under a taurus

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:54 PM

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i feel like there are too many bullets

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:54 PM

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proud sage rutgers

oh thats solid

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i mean i feel like itd be more of a regional hit tho

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:55 PM

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ex do we need to have 2 bullets showing sql skills

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:55 PM

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first internship was BS waste of time unfortunately

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:55 PM

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💔

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the bank ?

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:55 PM

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yeah

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:55 PM

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crud or

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just litearlly wastijng ur time

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:56 PM

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literally the whole project was something i couldve made in a day or 2

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:56 PM

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unpaid ?

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work is work tbh

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if the name carries

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:56 PM

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$21 an hour

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:56 PM

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ok i feel like the bullets are too much of you explaining what the technology does and not enough of what you did with it

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like the firebase point, you don't have to explain what firebase auth does

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:57 PM

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the important part abt experience is that u worked with a team to meet customer demands

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the work doesnt have to be too technical

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:57 PM

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same with git

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 5:58 PM

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that makes sense

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 5:58 PM

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and like the referential integrity point

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looks like you touched a lot of tech during the internships tho

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some of mine were bs like only 1 thing

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so thats good, you should have insightful things to talk about in your interview

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 5:59 PM

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what abt lines like this ♟️ 🐉

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i see alot of like

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presented x to company or summarized x

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like if its not techinical work i feel like its not worth putting

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:00 PM

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yeah make them more Active

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like remove Familiarized self with source code

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:01 PM

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unfortunately my second internship started off strong but i also kinda didnt do much the second half cuz my boss was busy all the time

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:01 PM

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i mean its good that u got 2 real ones already

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:01 PM

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so the microservice thing didnt even happen,

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:02 PM

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😔

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:02 PM

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and i thought the presentation would show good leadership experience or whatever 💔

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:02 PM

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hm

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i think leadership is more of u talk abt it

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:02 PM

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oh also the project, add an interface? shows depth of knowledge in fullstack

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:03 PM

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balmy holly i think leadership is more of u talk abt it

yeah just start every line with "Led" "Spearheaded" or "Engineered new"

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:03 PM

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wait ireally do not like spearheaded though

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isnt it the most gptd word

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besides like robust

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:03 PM

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proud sage so the microservice thing didnt even happen,

thats ok ig, did you plan enough of it that you could answer a question about it in an interview tho?

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:04 PM

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balmy holly isnt it the most gptd word

oh shoot yeah avoid GPT words then

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:04 PM

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i think led is fine

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but the impact is more important though tbh

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dont think they care much if you led it or not

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:04 PM

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yeah just replace contributed with led

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:05 PM

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tender mango thats ok ig, did you plan enough of it that you could answer a question about it...

yeah i think i could finesse

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:05 PM

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like working on something decently technincally challenging -> noticable impact is great

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:05 PM

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yeah also doing it urself is great too

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:05 PM

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oh yeah i lied i had an interview at fiserv and the interviewer seemed so interested in my app experience then they ghosted me for months and rejected

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blocked it out of memory i guess

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:06 PM

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bc a lot of internships are done in teams and they dont know if you were the slacker on the team

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:06 PM

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mobile dev is so awful

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u get paid jack shit

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unless ur like apple or something

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:06 PM

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im just happy to be paid at this pooint LOL

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:06 PM

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mobile is aight, theres just not a lot of companies making apps anymore

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:06 PM

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if ur gonna commit effort do it on anything but mobile dev

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:06 PM

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like if you think about it, all the apps you need on your phone are already there

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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yeah i feel like most mobile positions i see are just some random companies trying to get an app out

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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also i havent been applying to positions more than an hour or 2 away from me. cuz i dont see myself moving but i guess thats just silly?

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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and i only use like 10 of the same apps every day

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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proud sage also i havent been applying to positions more than an hour or 2 away from me. cu...

yeah silly

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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proud sage also i havent been applying to positions more than an hour or 2 away from me. cu...

ohhh thats why

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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u needa do like min 5 a day tbh

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doesnt matter where lmfao

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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i mean is it like you live in NJ and ur applying to NYC?

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or is it like you live in NJ and ur applying to NJ?

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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nj, NYC surrounding area, philly etc

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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oh thats a pretty big market

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nvm

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:08 PM

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i guess the bottom line is i shouldve done a lot more earlier but im trying to make something work now

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:08 PM

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yeah

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:08 PM

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but i appreciate all of ur advice

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:08 PM

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i mean theres alwys jobs i feel

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:08 PM

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its ok

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in 3 months you will say the same thing

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so the best time to start is yesterday

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:09 PM

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📶

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:09 PM

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Day 1

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for @balmy holly

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:09 PM

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also like a year ago i decided i didnt wanna grind leetcode and id rather spend my time working on apps and stuff and if i could get some success from it it could carry more weight (since i wouldnt be resume screened anymoer)

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:09 PM

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amazon

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:09 PM

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i guess i did get the little success but it didnt help much lol

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:09 PM

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zon email coming this week 🙏

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♟️ 🐉

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:09 PM

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i hope so bro GL

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:10 PM

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tyty

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:10 PM

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🙏

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:10 PM

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gl to u 2 ❤️

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may we all get jobs

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 6:10 PM

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thanks ❤️

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:18 PM

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balmy holly founder might be bad

@balmy holly would u mind explain why founder is bad? I’m just curious:)

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Anw hope u can get amz:)

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:18 PM

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mostly just cause its obvious its fake if u made it urself

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but also if u made it urself ur not the one getting taught anything

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:19 PM

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Isn’t better than personal project tho? If it can get real users

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:19 PM

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yes

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but its something u do if u dont have any experience at all

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like its the first thing to get cut once u get real stuff in

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causing lying about it / trying to sell it gets quite annoying

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:20 PM

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also Founder of startup implies you are more interested in starting your own thing instead of drinking the cool aid in a large corporate organization

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:20 PM

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Ah i see

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:21 PM

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less important at the early stage

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since students are malleable

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and like Manifesting said, most Founder positions in students are just glorified personal projects anyways

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but later in career it can hard to pivot

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from one to the other

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also when you get to a certain stage, most Founders dont code anymore

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they spend all their days in investor meetings

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:22 PM

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i got asked “do you have a startup” during one of my itv. Not sure if answering yes can damage me

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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why did thye ask

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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Idk😭

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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did u list one

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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I had 2 previous startup exp

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And then they ask do u have one?

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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🧐

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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I answer nope

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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cant be much good reason that they ask

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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oh last point about doing ur own startup is that companies are afraid you will use company time to work on your startup

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its still good student experience tho

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:24 PM

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Ahh I see, very insightful

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:25 PM

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yeah unfortunately no one wants u till u have something

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so gotta fake it to get the ball rolling

tender mango Apr 7, 2025, 6:27 PM

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balmy holly but also if u made it urself ur not the one getting taught anything

but yeah this too, recruiters are not gonna go through your code so they rely on the fact that the other companies you intern at are reliable vetters

balmy holly Apr 7, 2025, 6:28 PM

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yeah

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unfortunately they can just only take people with experience cause theres too much supply

fast yacht Apr 7, 2025, 6:31 PM

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Thats true

bitter wedge Apr 7, 2025, 7:08 PM

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@proud sage im at the gym rn but taking a quick glance at the resume, its too wordy imo and theres very clearly some bullets that are weaker than others

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for example “integrated a REST to get data and put into a database” (3rd experience, 2nd bullet) just doesn’t sound like anything meaningful

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no languages, no metrics, just simply that you made a REST API endpoint but so many people have done that

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gotta have impact

proud sage Apr 7, 2025, 10:11 PM

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bitter wedge <@215963669446524929> im at the gym rn but taking a quick glance at the resume, ...

alright thanks

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i just have trouble quantifying things, i dont really know how people do it. like i wasn't measuring my impact for eveyrthing i did

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do people just make up numbers?

bitter wedge Apr 7, 2025, 11:16 PM

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proud sage do people just make up numbers?

Yes

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You make up believable numbers

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But also shorten your bullets

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They’re long as hell and pretty hard for recruiters to pick out the valuable info

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https://discord.com/channels/698366411864670250/1353057244543057991

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Take a look at this thread

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The more I’ve thought about it, the more I can see why this resume got so many interviews

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There’s impact but it’s also brief and very understandable

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All the bullets mean something

proud sage Apr 8, 2025, 1:23 AM

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@bitter wedge thanks i read through it and tried to rewrite a lot of my points to reduce the fluff

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in the process i may have added more bs since i ended up with more whitespace and had to fill it

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but just trying to do the best with internships that didn't give me much to do 😔

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@tender mango @balmy holly do u guys think this is any better? and i really appreciate your advice so far

balmy holly Apr 8, 2025, 1:27 AM

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i mean its fine

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the problem is ur fluffing it with extra bullets but not much you can do about that

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like this could get cut

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or like the 1st and 3rd here

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or this stuff either

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i guess the problem is they really didnt give u much to do

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like its good to do this stuff but

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usually u just do it in projects to get the keywords out

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but its fine to have i think u should just apply

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i think it may be bad to have like 6 bullets per experience, you can try just having 1 more project and remove low impact bullets

tender mango Apr 8, 2025, 1:44 AM

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yeah the bullets are more concise now

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yeah if you have any other class projects or smt that you can re-brand as a personal project real quick

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but its good

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personal preference, i think could be valuable to bold technical skills like React and PostgreSQL if you are applying to jobs that require those skills

proud sage Apr 8, 2025, 2:02 AM

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tender mango personal preference, i think could be valuable to bold technical skills like Rea...

Oh good idea

proud sage Apr 8, 2025, 2:02 AM

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tender mango yeah if you have any other class projects or smt that you can re-brand as a pers...

Hmm I don’t wanna do that 😭 but it’s a good idea I might

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I should

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Anyway thanks a lot for ur feedback guys I appreciate it

balmy knot Apr 8, 2025, 3:47 AM

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bruh i did that too lol

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tbf i dont think my personal projects ever helped me tho

proud sage Apr 8, 2025, 3:56 AM

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balmy knot bruh i did that too lol

no ik its valid, i just meant i dont feel like changing my resume more it's such a tedious process

bitter wedge Apr 8, 2025, 4:00 AM

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gotta do waht you gotta do to get a job

proud sage Apr 8, 2025, 4:38 AM

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u right

balmy knot Apr 8, 2025, 4:45 AM

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bro i was changing my resume 2x a week

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cus ik i was cooked otherwise cus my experience was pretty bad

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its like the only thing you can actively change besides applying more

proud sage Apr 8, 2025, 6:24 AM

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tender mango Apr 8, 2025, 5:15 PM

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oh nice thats a solid project, maybe get rid of the OOP point and replace it with a User Feature-centric point

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like about creating pizza variations

proud sage Apr 8, 2025, 7:32 PM

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tender mango oh nice thats a solid project, maybe get rid of the OOP point and replace it wit...

sorry do u have an example of what you mean?

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and this project is overall beneficial right? already shot out a bunch of apps

balmy knot Apr 11, 2025, 8:39 PM

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yeah when you put OOP, you make it seem like a school project

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