T_T PLS HELP junior 150+ apps 0 procs

[fleet sleet]

Looking for 2026 SWE internships

specifically C++ dev

for context of my strategy thus far:
only applying for roles with C++ in the job description
also not applying to anything in defense👎👎

T_T junior 130+ apps 0 procs for swe internships plz roast :3

[upbeat walrus]

Damn esri nice

[slender grove]

esri orz

[fleet sleet]

@wooden osprey hallloooo fellow drainer...
sorry but would love your eyes on this ><

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T_T PLS HELP junior 150+ apps 0 procs

[wooden osprey]

pretty solid do some research at ur uni to get more to put on

[fleet sleet]

thanku goatt ok will work on that zzzzz

[frosty forge]

General Advice:

• Use STAR/CAR/XYZ method when writing your bullet points. Most of your bullet points are not.
• Focus on impact rather than tasks, 99% of your bullet points are the tasks you did, not the impact of the task.
• Use strong action verb at the start of your bullet points

Here are examples of your weak bullet points:

1. “Collaborated with team to rearchitect high-performant C++ core providing geospatial and mapping functionality…”. Too long and buzzwordy. “High-performant” and “rearchitect” are overused. Instead you can write it like : "Rebuilt core geospatial engine in modern C++ to improve SDK performance and developer experience across multiple platforms.”, you can even mention the metrics of the improvement by 5%, etc.

2. “Improved efficiency of ad-hoc testing…”. Yeah how much did it improved? did it reduce test cycles, debugging time, or manual steps?

3. “Accessed coordinates, geodata…”. reads like a class assignment, instead you can write it like this : "Optimized geospatial route planning for 20,000+ streets, cutting average query time by 50% using custom hashmaps and A*."

4. Mahjong Detector. In this project, why not tell the results of your project, whats the detection accuracy of your project? why just tell the implementation?

5. Empathetic Chatbot. Again in this project, what did u achieve? whats the accuracy, f1, recall, precision? model type?

In Summary :

• Remove the weak bullet points, you dont need to tell everything you did, but enough so that the recruiter is interested, the rest can be talked in the interview. Thats why you need metrics to interest the reader/recruiter. Right now, when im reading your resume, it sounds like a lab assignment.

[fleet sleet]

thank you this is great feedback! I feel that my bullet points generally follow the Accomplished X by doing Y using Z technologies

but I can see how some of my bullets lead with a task rather than the impact especially in my projects

[fleet sleet]

When you say rearchitect and high-performant are overused, is this a general statement or in reference to my resume?

[fleet sleet]

Just to clarify, do you recommend removing the weaker bullet points or rewriting them in accordance with your other suggestions?

[frosty forge]

rewrite them, and if you cant, you can just remove them

[frosty forge]

i meant it as like in general

its just a bunch of meaningless buzzword

[fleet sleet]

gotcha sounds good!

[fleet sleet]

really? i mean those were the terms used on the team because the main effort was a rearchitecture of their “high-performance C++ core” like that was the description on their github repo

i can see how they’re buzzwords perhaps but i don’t feel that they’re meaningless

[frosty forge]

i mean if you want to keep it that's okay

[fleet sleet]

I’ll remove it! just surprised it comes off as meaningless

[frosty forge]

well i didnt know the team used that term directly haha

i thought it was just buzzwords for your resume

[fleet sleet]

thanks for the thorough advice will implement!!

[fleet sleet]

ahh gotcha

[scarlet plaza]

C++ merchant orz

[fleet sleet]

the only language ever

[wooden osprey]

show ur most updated version

@fleet sleet

sorry when i looked at ur ping i probably wasnt that available so i gave a mid response

also fwiw i disagree with some fo the stuff said above so just wanna see ur current version

specifically idt STAR / all these other frameworks are that valuable

i dont use any of those and ime its just brittle and redundant across multiple lines

[fleet sleet]

wait nw sorry for pinging i appreciate your feedback

this is it so far, idk the new stats r definitely made up but tried following the advice of showing impact in projects and "removing the weak bullet points"

definitely not finished though something feels off

[wooden osprey]

ur old first line mogs ur current hm

ok imma dm u