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EDIT Updated resume: https://www.teamblind.com/post/I-think-Im-worth-a-phone-call-pt-2-MhR8kGRC ------------ I've applied to ~400 jobs with different versions of this resume, and yet I still can't even get a phone call back. Is there something I'm missing? (or is the market really that bad?) ------------ For some context: I was hired full-time before finishing my first year of university (funnily enough, I was posting my portfolio projects on Reddit, a SWE at my current company saw it, showed the CTO and that got me an interview). Because of US immigration laws, I had to work full-time AND complete my education at the same time. Right now I work remotely for the company. In a relatively short period of time (~ 2 years), I went from a software engineer to their CTO. While CTO, I led multiple efforts, eventually bringing the bootstrapped startup to profitability. I've been graduated now since May 2023 (a year earlier than expected — summer courses), and I'm starting to get to the point where I want to work for a larger company where I'm surrounded by people I can learn from/work with. I find my "career" extremely hard to articulate via my resume, since technically most of my work experience happened while I was at school (even though it was full-time). I decided to hide my graduation date from my resume, but I'm not convinced that this is the right approach either. I don't even like telling people I'm a CTO, given my age (I did some applying without it on my resume too). I'm convinced that given an interview, I'd do well, but I haven't gotten a single one. #engineering #software #swe #resume TC: 150K
A 2 YOE CTO is a red flag. It also could be seen as you are not hands on and wouldn't be able to contribute as an IC, assuming that's what you are applying for. If you're applying to management positions, no one is going to consider you.
Came here to say this.
Yeahhhh... I figured. I am applying as an IC. I'll take the advice of a lot of the other commenters and change it to senior
ATS filtering algorithms will probably throw your resume out because of the CTO part not matching the level at which you’re interviewing. It’s an anomaly and those systems don’t know what to do. Suggest changing that to something that matches the level you’re interviewing for.
Second this, especially all while in uni
Ah, this is a very good point. I didn't think about it that way, I'll definitely change it. Thanks!
3 YOE as a SWE and then CTO? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Why don’t you ask the company that you were a CTO to rehire as a SWE ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That too while at uni 😂😂
What are you laughing at dummy? He did well in a tiny company, yeah, he gets inflated title, nothing out of the ordinary here.
2 yoe senior and cto would give me a chuckle then I’d stop reading and toss this resume. I think you need to find a way to reword this experience. Anyone with any experience in the real world will balk at this because it makes no sense.
Yep, change CTO to team lead or some such. A lot of the behaviors in there are just standard senior SWE stuff anyway
These were exactly my thoughts initially. Everybody around me was saying "you shouldn't discount yourself" by not reflecting my new title on my resume, but I know it sounds wayyy too outlandish to be taken seriously
I have seen tech lead and sr.staff swe with < 3 yoe with boot camp education but cto is another level. 😂
It's tough. The former CTO was let go, and I did replace him, but I knew at the time that I shouldn't get the title (it sounds unbelievable to everyone). Now my LinkedIn says CTO and I can't really change that. I do agree with everyone though, that it's not helping me on my resume.
Why can’t you change your LinkedIn?
Good call pulling graduation date off. Now get CTO off that resume. Call yourself a Sr. SWE or a Lead if you must. Companies want to hire people into jobs they’ve been doing - and no one is hiring you for a CTO role (barring a very small startup, but you’ll network your way to that job not apply). Also try to beef up what you did from a technical standpoint. A lot of your work is soft stuff or light technical - the admin dashboards for what I can only imagine is a handful of users probably isn’t jumping off the page at anyone. Leverage your network. See where people you’ve worked with or went to school with work now. Ask them to hook you up with their managers for potential open roles.
Thanks for this advice. I agree 100%
+1 on technical experience details.
The real crime is the Yahoo email tho 😂
🤣 I KNOW. There's no good gmail with my name, but the yahoo ".ca" really kills me
You can, like get your own domain and do email forwarding with cloudflare
I remember in college when a buddy was a "CTO" for a bit at a kids startup. Then they got their first software quality testing job for a few years before eventually making SWE I
- Remove your title as CTO, add a senior - Remove code review part, adding 6 comments per review is literally nothing - Add profitability numbers to your first point
this. nobody cares what you did, only impact matters. today middle engineer reviews 200+ during a half. it’s definitely not a part of a cto’s responsibility
Exactly. Its lame mentioning how many reviews you left on diffs and even diff reviews. Isnt that an expectation rather? And for stats purpose, reviewing 200 diffs isnt a lot. I just looked at my prev half stats and I reviewed 300 last half. I am an E4 for context.
I’ll call you, what’s your number?
I am sorry but this is funny