AIMING FOR SWE ROLES SUMMER 2026 - APPRECIALTE ALL FEEDBACK

[knotty roost]

Hey yall I would really appreciate any feedback on my resume, my goal is to apply for SWE roles

[knotty roost]

Bump

[potent fable]

skills to bottom, exp to top. i would drop the explanation of where the projects came from (internship, course proj, etc)

add concepts section to skills

this is a personal thing but to me prototyped is a verb you use when you made/compared multiple prototypes to determine a final design

for robotics/embedded roles, you are missing rtos, communication protocols, specifics about the types of sensor data/microcontrollers you are used to working with, etc.

not super familiar with cyber so maybe someone else can chime in on that

[knotty roost]

thanks for the feedback

[slow knoll]

as other said, experience to top. it's the most relevant thing to discuss. Also the bullet point around "authoring reports" is a little confusing to me, it makes it sound like you just randomly researched stuff and wrote papers for fun? weekly challenge problems??

the other bullet points make a little more sense but don't really mention what you did

were you configuring the network settings, firewalls, etc? Pen-testing? Hardening the OS? did you actually write code at all?

[knotty roost]

Yea it’s a little hard to explain, basically we had lectures and researched different cyber topics weekly (1 week buffer overflow and another reverse engineering) and then were given a problem in that topic to solve by the end of the week and write a paper detailing solution

[knotty roost]

Thanks I’ll make sure to add something like that

[slow knoll]

this just sounds like you did homework? Or were you presenting these papers and there's something more to it?

it it ammounts to the interns learning series to promote you guys to learn stuff - i'd just leave it out. if there's more to it, make it more clear

interns i've had on my teams generally came in, had a specific problem assigned to them of which they took on as their main goal. Did you not have a internship project?

[knotty roost]

lwok didnt think of it like that... yeah ill probably focus more on the other aspect of the internship

[knotty roost]

I had that too, I put it as a seperate project tho

[potent fable]

turn the internship proj into bullets under exp