Hello Blind Community, Seeking honest feedback on my resume as I prepare to apply to FAANG-tier (I have previously applied but never received any responses) companies for a Data Engineer position. Your insights are greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Is each section well-organized, or do I need to make any adjustments in terms of content or structure, bullet points? Seeking opportunities in the field of data engineering with 3-4 years of experience. #tech #resume #faang #google #meta #apple #amazon #nvidia #oracle #microsoft #adobe #netflix #atlassian #dataengineer #data
The cv look terrible. Involved in, wtf does that mean, I been involved in living on earth. Be specific, I lead this, I developed this, I got sale, I single handily wrested bears in a cage. Describe your impacts. Go re-read your cv and ask this question on every single sentence. So what, why should I care. Then make it specific and make it care. Good luck
Sure, thanks!!
You have 4 YOE …get rid of the Extra&Achievement section …it screams new grad. Get rid of the Bold fold in the bullets …the recruiter scans the resume for 20-35 seconds max before making a decision (my wife is a recruiter at Google and is ex-Meta). Those bold fonts forces them to look at those words, and sometimes takes away from other things. “Involved in” …sounds like a school play. Terrible choice of words. Don’t use hyperbole “significantly reduced” can be shortened to Reduce X by Y%. Also, every job needs to tell a story about what you accomplished there. Reformat to the - “did X, to solve Y to yield Z results”. Put the most impactful bullets on top. Lastly, there is NO stability in your career. Huge red flag, jumping for one place to another every 1-2 years, shows that there is no growth and investment. That does not deem you un-qualified …but FAANG recruiters will look at that. You have not spent enough time in any place to solve strategic problems yourself …you are likely just part of an overall team …doing tasks from the backlog/pipeline.
Hey, thank you for your feedback. I have revised my CV based on your advice. Possible for you to take another quick look?
As a hiring manager - you would not get an interview from me. I have no idea what you did and how you did it. I have no idea what your contributions were and what the outcome/results were. There are very little details on your specific contributions. Similar to another comment- “involved in” means nothing. Please be descriptive and show actionable results on time and in budget. Or show achievements and how and why it was worth doing. If you can explain why you did tasks and their benefits for doing it. That will go along way and differentiate you from just being a mindless robot worker bee
Hey, thank you for your valuable feedback. I have revised my CV based on your advice. Possible for you to take another quick look?
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Looks clean. I don’t know much about DE but it’s pretty well rounded. You don’t mention SQL much for some reason, I think you should. I wouldn’t use the word “involved”, but a word that makes you appear as the main developer. There are some redundancies (why use the word significant in 3rd line if you can just say and bold 99%? We know that’s significant). Similarly you also mention “python scripting language”, that makes you sound like a beginner. Maybe just say python like you did below. Just my 2 cents. Looks good otherwise but may need a few more concrete examples to come across as mid level and not entry level
Makes sense, thanks for the insights.