Rejected from Palantir, ridiculously hard to get in?
Aug 16
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Recently applied for a SWE and FDSE Internship at Palantir, didn't even get an interview with this CV.
PS: This CV got me interviews tor internships at Google, Snap and Twitter. (They went well)
Also, I applied for the London office.
How can I improve?
TC: 5k monthly (intern)
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Resume gets you in the door, has nothing to do with how you did in their interview, which we don’t know anything about.
OP is a student not a professional.
Maybe I’ve had it easy because of my brand name school then. I had my education before experience until I had 2 yoe.
Brand name school definitely helps to get good internship.
Who sees your resume is more important.
😭
Google passed over my resume even with referral. Haven’t heard back from Twitter yet either. It’s all a crap shoot. I never expected to hear back from Palantir, but never got expected to get rejected from flexport or hubspot during resume screen 😂
It’s all crapshoot. I wouldn’t lose sleep over it. I know it is a crappy feeling tho
Amazon is last choice if I can help it lol
Where I went for my bachelors is known for pharmacy school (which is what I was doing before), but everything else is worse than dog crap.
I don't see anything particularly standing out in your resume either.
I just sent you a request to connect with you on LinkedIn 😂
- Remove High School... seriously
- Is “Python and Machine Learning Demonstrator” an official title that can be verified during a background check? It sounds ridiculous to me.
- Relevant Modules seem weak and the caption sounds worse than simply saying Coursework
- Relevant Experience should be just Experience
- Put intern after High Performance Computing... Which is not a title by the way so come up with one
- Focus on impact not only on technologies used
- Testing and DevOps sounds weak. Maybe make up some stuff here? 🤷🏼♂️
- Mention valuation and number of people involved in CTO gig
- More info needed on organization you co-founded or you won’t be taken seriously
- And for goodness sakes do not listen to the dinguses who are telling you to put experience before education. Internships are not even counted as experience. You’re a student not a professional.
- for current gig put: (April 2019 - present)
- Getting an internship is harder than getting a job usually. That’s definitely the case for Bloomberg at least. The people we get are Princeton students that outperform regular employees. They never return of course.
what were your answers for those?
Creative and hands-on software asdf with X years of python, C++, another, and another.
Throughout that time, I have launched X & Y, managed A, and B.
2. Normal resumes are in this order.... Name, contact info, summary, experience, education, skills/tools used.
3. I was remove... 'I was awarded'.... just put Awarded AAA - received by top 1%
4. The more information you put... the more they can find something to dislike. IMO
on linkedin...you put in everything so that they can find you thru search. However, on a resume, it needs to be shorter and straight to the point.
5. Why is key projects separate from relevant exp? shouldnt all of your exp be key? just a thought
recap:
If you were the recruiter/hiring staff and you received 1000 resumes... how would you filter/sort out the resumes? Are you really going to go thru every resume to see who went to X school and did Y and write notes on every resume..... then sort... group... .finalize??
Try to do the hiring staff's job by putting everything in order.... put the summary with highlights and SOME (not all) skills. PUT WHAT'S RELEVANT to the company.
If there was a JD... try to match your resume to the JD as much as possible..... words... skills... etc. If they put C# then put C#... if they put c sharp then put c sharp. A lot of companies use software that does 'word matching'