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- Bloating up resumes I interviewed a potential L5 (phone screen) the other day. Candidate had apparently 3 years experience in coding post graduation. Stuck at writing a loop in language of their choice. Logic, syntax, no nothing nada zilch 😳 I understand it's common to bloat up your resume, but there is a limit! I un
- Think I messed up my offer due to resume blunder? I got an offer at a FAANG, contingent on passing a background check. However, on my resume for one of my old work experience in 2018, I did a 6 month gig at Client A via contract under Company B. On my resume, I only listed Client A, and no one asked if it was under contract or not. I foolishly did
- Resume not getting picked up in Google ! Team - I meet all the criteria that is required for a Program Manager positions in Google, also use a referral link to apply to these positions. But irrespective of having doing all of these I am not been successful in getting a Recruiter call or email for Interviews. The resume is short and crisp
- Resume not getting picked up I am a UK resident with a bachelor's in EEE and 10 years of hardware development experience. Currently, I am looking at opportunities in the USA but failing to receive any feedback on rejections as I believe it is not getting past the ATS even though match rate from jobscan is over 80% . Do hardware
- People to Punch Up Resume / LinkedIn Does anyone have any recommendations of people to punch up a resume and LinkedIn? Or if not a specific person, a site that you use? TC: 180K #Resume
- vote What would beef up resume more? Im about to graduate from a not prestigious school in the South. TC: 0 YoE: 0 #tech
- Rounding up yoe on resume On your resume, is it ok to round up your yoe? For examples 4.5 > 5?
- vote which would look better on my resume, Zillow or a start up? the only catch is that I'd be working in a team at Zillow that is the result of an acquisition, so their stack is .NET backend with react frontend. the startup is bay area based, 200-500 employees, has raised a series C, has a node/react stack, and higher scale than the Zillow team's app. I feel li
- "Making Up" skills on resume/CV Borrowing the words of a managing director at a recruitment firm in Asia, "there's now a growing tendency for junior candidates to pull the skill set of the more senior person who sits next to them on their CV because they've seen what they [seniors] do, so they think they're also capable of carryin
- What's up wiith Github resume screening process? I have applied for a bunch of positions in the past 6 months which I believe I was a good fit and keep getting automated rejections within a couple of days or the very next morning. The problem is not the rejection part but their quick judgment with no proper evaluation of background & resume. They
- vote Do you make up or exaggerate data on your resume? Edit; let’s categorize exaggerations and approximations when the data doesn’t exist as lies since I can’t edit the poll. TC: 260k (equity at current FMV) #Product #resume#pm #product #productmanager
- Anyone up for a resume review? (data scientist) Link: --- I'm a data scientist and may be looking for jobs. Did a substantial rewrite based on earlier feedback, making it more readable and highlighting technical details of my experiences, but I wanted to check to see if there's still work to do before sending out more applications.
- Amazon Background check coming up. Have inconsistencies in my resume. Hi I need advice on how to navigate this issue. I have recently gotten a job offer for CSE role at aws (I would be relocating to a different country for the role). I have 5 job experiences listed on my resume. However I have 2 half truths on the earliest experiences at the beginning of my career. To
- How does joining a no name start up impact your future resume? As the title says, how does joining a no name start up impact your resume? If you’re a senior leader at a start up that doesn’t have huge brand recognition but is moderate to very successful, how does that look? what if you have some big brands previously on your resume already? Considering joini
- Do you make up job titles on your resume? Not asking if you make up the jobs or lie about what you do, but update the title to sound better towards what you’re applying for. For example: im a client success specialist, but “client success consultant” sounds a lot better. I’ve never done this but curious if it’s something people commonly d
- Project Ideas to build up resume for PM jobs Hi Blinders, I have a background in Biomedical Engineering, trying to break into product management. I am looking to start a side project building a software product to gain some experience & build my portfolio. Any advice on how to choose a project that will help me land my first product role? #pr
- Want to try in Google but my resume never gets picked up!!! Team, Being early in career, i always want to challenge myself with other tech companies. I always try with Google and my resume never gets picked up. I dont have any contacts from Google. Any suggestions?
- For a position that opens up in FAANG, how many resumes do they get? Let's say a position opens up in a FAANG company and is posted on its website, do you know as a fact how many resumes would come in directly or through Linkedin or any third party website? If a company gets 83 resumes that day, I am not surprised why my resume sank like a rock into the ocean... but
- How much of a step up from capital one is Bloomberg, in terms of brand name on resume? Would it make it easier to get into places like Pinterest, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Netflix, etc.?
- Two quick job changes on resume, how do they show up in a background check? I moved companies before COVID and was fired from the new company last week. Both my stints were with tech companies and ~6 months, which looks very bad on my resume. As I recruit, can I tell folks that I was on a short term consulting basis with my last company? Does your employment type (consultan
- vote What looks better on resume or linkedin: non-FAANG big company vs start-up? By non-FAANG big company I mean something like capital one. Would it hurt me in any way to go to a smaller start-upish company? P. S. I am not talking about stripe or robinhood type of start-up. I'm talking about more low key startups that are smaller.
- How to make up a testing profile resume for SD positions in FAANG? I’m looking for SD new grad roles and have prior experience as a tester. So do I need to tweak my experience and include some work in development project? If yes, how well do I need to articulate that. If no, can I just manage to get my resume picked with some specific keywords on skills? Please he
- Passed up on Google for Job, but resume kept active? What does this mean? Hi all, I recently got feedback that I won’t be moving on to the hiring board process at Google after waiting to hear back for over 2 weeks. They said that I had great experience and accomplishments but there were candidates that had more. They said they’d keep my resume active and reach out once t
- Interviewing after taking up the earliest offer and continuing to interview with the old resume Interviewing after taking up the earliest offer and continuing to interview with the old resume. Is this bad. Do companies go back on the offer if they know that you are not there with the previous company anymore ?.
- vote Is it possible that my resume is not getting picked up because I don't attach cover letter? Also, this is for data analyst/scientist roles, not SWEs. Thank you! #tech
- Cooling period after rejecting amazon? rejected one offer recently, wondering when can I apply again? Can I apply to a diff org? Don’t wanna waste my time browsing the opportunity knowing that my resume wont be picked up anyway. TC 150k
- No one wants to join MSFT I have 6 friends interviewing for new jobs and my team has 3-4 open positions but none of my friends are even remotely interested in MSFT. Even telling them just a resume forward to my manager would guarantee an interview didn't pique their interest. Word on the street about MSFT TC is really terri
- Am I fuc*ed? Lied on my resume and said I worked at google to try and pass the resume screening stage and ended up getting an offer at a mid size company. Now background check company is asking for W2’s from Google. How? I didn’t list it on the actual background check form. Please help. I’ve already put my not
- How to land Microsoft Interview? I’ve been applying to Microsoft roles for years but my resume hasn’t been picked up by the recruiter or any interviews. Any tips would be helpful.
- Anyone want a job? Hit me up with resume. Top of market TC!
- Do recruiters actually keep your resume on file even if you get rejected? So I’m applying to various positions and getting those “Thank you for applying but…” rejection emails. In those emails there is always a part where they mention that they will keep your resume on file in case something comes up. Is that true or do recruiters just throw away your resume after you’ve
- vote Microsoft to Uber Is Microsoft to Uber a jump up, jump down or same ? Just from a company and resume value perspective? Tc: 300
- Caught lying in job interview My resume is a little dishonest... I changed my job title 6mo after joining Amazon but I put my new title as my entire time at Amazon. When asked about my responsibilities I embellished what I'm doing and said I had more responsibilities than I do. Including saying I had a direct report of someon
- Just wanted to say this Only 3 months ago I was begging companies to look at my resume and get me an interview. I was at Intel. It has not been a month since I joined Meta and somehow now Google and other start ups are VERY IMPRESSED with my PM experience and want to talk to me. As good as it feels, I am not that differen
- Applied to 20 companies, 0 responses (except rejections). Working at Google rn. I have 4 YOE SWE and around $300k TC. I figured I would freshen up on interviews and apply to some companies. My resume is good (at least to me) and I definitely am more qualified for roles now than I was 4 years ago, but damn it’s near impossible to get interviews in 2020 it seems. I thought that
- Why recruiters reaching out on LinkedIn ask for resumes All the recruiters reaching out on Linkedin asks for resumes even before sharing important details about role like company name, location, pay range. Linkedin profile is up to date with latest job so why do they ask for resume? Are they measured by how many resumes they collect?
- Google dream job expired before I could apply 😩 So I finally found my dream job on Google Careers. It couldn’t be a better match. It took a while to land a referral, but I was finally set. The posting said it expired today and since it was still up this morning I thought I still had a shot. So I keyword optimized my resume and got it ready to s
- vote Quitting FAANG in 3 months I'm not able to complete the tasks or perform up to the level of the other members of my team, long story short I might be let go soon for underperforming , should I put FAANG ony resume for 3 months, or leave a 3 months gap? My companies before FAANG we're trash, Not sure which one will hurt my res
- Top Resume Have any of you used the services of Top Resume to spruce up your SWE resume? Worth it ir not?
- vote 1 page vs 2 page Resume Hey blind family ! For a software Engineering role, would you make a 1 page resume no matter what or it's okay to have a resume that takes up 2 pages and do you modify your resume based on the role you are applying or have a one resume fits all ? Also anyone willing to help me review my resume, co
- vote Can I round a 3.449 GPA up to a 3.5 GPA I just graduated with a 3.449 GPA (tentative, but I’m pretty sure that’s my final GPA). I had some trouble with college at the beginning due to a traumatic brain injury and an undiagnosed case of ADHD. To make up for my prior poor performance, I worked my ass off Junior and Senior year to get strai
- is swift a good language to build cool projects with and manage to impress FANG companies mostly amazon? building projects in a programming language to amp up my resume
- Patents info How difficult is it get a patent? Does it add value to your resume? Would you stay at a company just to get a patent to build up resume?
- link Having Google on resume, what opportunity is unlocked? Saw a post here about coinbase vs google: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Coinbase-vs-Google-New-Grad-JhGqjQn2 Many people mentioned having Google on resume open up many doors. Any ex-googler/googler can share what opportunities have opened for you after joining Google? Wouldn't having a tier 2 com
- link Elon Musk is working at the CA factory "Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891 "Yes, California approved, but an unelected county official illegally overrode.
- Should I include my current job In my SWE resume even though it’s embarrassing? (Bartender). I figure the subject will come up inevitably and can’t lie about it but also feel that including it on my resume is bad
- Resume recommendations Hi everyone, I’m brushing up my resume. Would like to hear what to include and what not to include in resume. It is open-ended, please comment from your experience or good resumes you have seen, what works and what doesn’t. Thanks!
- Looking for Coinbase intern referral Hey everyone, Title is pretty self explanatory here. Looking for anyone who could refer me for Coinbase fall 22’ internship, listing went up today. Let me know! Incase it matters, it won’t be my first internship and I have a pretty solid resume. #referral #intern #blockchain
- Facebook L5 Resume How much does your resume impact the hiring process at Facebook? I’m a little worried about the interviews and hoping my resume will make up for them.
- Examples of senior engineer’s resume? Would love to understand the accomplishments of senior (and staff) engineers and how I stack up. Can any senior ICs post their anonymized resume here or link me to public resumes of senior engineers along with a level? If you don’t feel comfortable commenting here, feel free to shoot me a DM. TC: 3