Looking For New Grad SWE Roles, CRITICISM NEEDED

[glass gulch]

Looking For New Grad SWE Roles, CRITICISM NEEDED

[tough isle]

are u getting processes at all for SWE roles

bc u have good experience for SDET

[glass gulch]

i’ve gotten a few interviews but not many

[raven tangle]

did you use gpt 5

be… careful with that. it sucks

currently looking through your resume bullet points and it looks like you used it for almost every single one

there does not need to be a semicolon on every single line…

that’s very weird

and a lot of these points are just way too technical idk how any recruiter is gonna understand them

[glass gulch]

what happened was my bullets were previously super long so i used gpt 5 to shorten about half of them

and it used semicolons to break up the ideas

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is there a better way to break up ideas other than using semicolons

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some people have said this to me but idk how to get across the technical details of projects without sounding “too technical” idk what the balance is

either i sound too technical and it’s hard to read, or ATS auto rejects me before a human even gets to read it, idk what the best approach is in terms of technical density

[raven tangle]

i recommend version 4. or you may need to tweak the version 5 prompt to not write in that weird style 😭

[glass gulch]

i was originally using o3, then i switched to 5 thinking

[glass gulch]

i can prompt it to suggest other styles that don’t use semicolons, but i feel like semicolons are a standard practice for combining multiple ideas no?

[raven tangle]

you can try that but also maybe some ideas can be omitted? im sure there’s some stuff that’s not too important

so you can choose which to keep

[glass gulch]

yea the thing about chat gpt suggestions is it always favors technical depth over human readability and it’s hard to see it from a recruiters perspective