Hi, What kind of projects or content make an attractive resume for FAANG/tech recruiters. I have currently started working on MERN stack and was looking to invest my time in doing something that will add some level of competitiveness to my resume. I don't want to lie or exaggerate stuff. I don't come from a traditional Java/Python background. I am doing a complete overhaul of my tech stack .So I have to do some good projects to convince them for an interview. I know everything boils down to LC and LP but what will make them call me for interview. YOE : 6( 3 in US) TC: somewhere around 110k(Midwest)
Get a referral instead and practice leetcode and system design instead. Projects won't help you once you are being interviewed very much.
Yeah true..just wanted to know what will make them call me or get impressed from the resume
1. To get an interview, get a referral. 2. For team matching, projects related to what you want to do are best. If you want to do natural language processing, do a project on that
Honestly, CRUD apps written in MEAN / LAMP / MERN / JAM / BAM / FAM / etc. are a dime a dozen, about as interesting as a PacMan game written in Swing. OSS contributions to meaty projects hold far more weight imo.
I think most crud apps are shit. But some crud apps that are well made stand apart from the others.
Scalability could be a differentiating factor.