Resume feedback aiming for big tech or HFT grad next year (non-US)

[kindred canyon]

google exp is kinda confusing

summer 2025 intern but starting in nov 2025?

i feel like the tiktok points lack specificity in what you did to achieve your metrics

your education section seems really bulky, youd be much better off cutting a lot of that and adding another project

[calm creek]

seasons are a bit different here

[calm creek]

u reckon i should cut down some A+ flexes and make one more solid project

i intentionally thought 3 projects is a bit overkill and was thinking of removing the redis clone project to some custom OS made with C/C++ i am making rn

[kindred canyon]

you could prob remove this and also shorten your hackathon stuff to be one line

unless its very significant in your country i feel like a lot of recruiters wont really recognize the significance of it

you also have a decent amount of whitespace on your lines, you could do some work to optimize your lines so that you're not losing space on your resume

the red that i marked is the whitespace you're leaving, this can easily by itself be like an entire project

[calm creek]

thats actually so fair didnt think about that

never thought of the horizontal whitespaces

[kindred canyon]

i would keep coursework, and keep A+'s tbh since i feel like it wouldnt rlly take much more space

and its decent signal

[calm creek]

then should I cut down some tiktok metrics, remove the CS Mentor/Trainee lead, and add one project in ur opinion?

[kindred canyon]

the metrics seem solid, but i think its better to add specificity to what you did in order to achieve those metrics. if your tiktok section ends up becoming too verbose, then i would take the top k best points and cut the rest

[calm creek]

also that one month internship is near useless because i quit the job without learning anything, idk if i should remove that or not

i just started writing some real code then quit the job for tiktok

[kindred canyon]

icic

i mean you can always play it up to be slightly more than you actually did

if its work exp i would keep it until it feels like you have too much to put on your resume

[calm creek]

okay thanks, appreciate the feedback

[kindred canyon]

np!

[knotty merlin]

i think you delete

can't BS content for a 1 month position

and it just looks like a red flag

[calm creek]

yep also what I was thinking. hopefully after I start my google sre I can have enough dot points to remove that whole thing

[knotty merlin]

can i dm you actually

want to ask you advice

[calm creek]

go for it sir

happy to help

[knotty merlin]

ty! appreciate it

dm'ed you

[placid olive]

ngl the google sre experience would be a turnoff

to a recruiter

it makes u sound like a dick (even if ur not intending to be)

[young thistle]

Fr

Just say working on the site reliability team or smth

[calm creek]

wdym

can u elaborate?

is it because i put incoming

not a real experience yet

[placid olive]

you said "one of the 18 incoming interns"

which doesn't even make fucking sense bc google hires way more than 18 interns each summer lmao

[calm creek]

not everyone lives in the US lol

those numbers are real...

my country is tiny bro

[placid olive]

i wouldn't put a future experience personally but if u are going to do that, don't say that lol

[placid olive]

but how do u even know headcount

[calm creek]

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he confirmed

[calm creek]

btw my man u needa learn how to talk less agressively and read the post title that clearly says non-US 😂

[placid olive]

lol i'm playing with u my guy

all fun and games

but still point is it makes u look like a prick

welcome to google

honestly idk how good sre is for quant procs

also do u go to oxbridge?

IIT?

[calm creek]

nah its just 7/10 of my close group of friends and other 3 incl me got big tech

and i am getting HFT fomo

[calm creek]

neither

[placid olive]

oh so waterloo ig

but anyways

sure u can prob get hft

with google, tikky tokka on ur res

[calm creek]

hopefully, but like tbh I will be pretty happy with Google grad RO

considering i never wrote a single line of code before uni

[placid olive]

yea comp is like ~$250k

not hft money

but not chump change either

[kindred canyon]

250k is far away a good salary dude 😭

[placid olive]

u can also prob just go for oai

[calm creek]

nah HFT is more like a preference, I will maybe try for grad interviews next year but i am not diehard for HFT

[placid olive]

they'll be hiring SREs

[kindred canyon]

this is fair

[placid olive]

with the hundreds of billions of dollars they're about to waste on datacenters

[calm creek]

i also know a decent (not enough tho) amount of C++, i am a TA for a C++ course rn

[placid olive]

ifl i'm barely surviving tbh

[calm creek]

so maybe i was gonna try

[placid olive]

only saving like $120-130K for the year

google especially sre is like all cpp

[calm creek]

but yeah objectively

maybe i will try quant