Seems like I get passed on by Hiring managers when they review my resume and experience. Some issues I think I see on my own resume: - work is all over the place - used c#, Java, Python but I don’t include c# in skills cause I don’t event really “know” the language, I just coded similar to Java - skill section is bare cause I barely use any known frameworks / packages. I used stuff in a side project back in 2019 but I forgot all about it now. Stuff I think that’s lacking is like Spring, JavaScript/frontend, Django, react, maven, mongo or whatever else people use on top of their languages. For example, I worked on a java project with JavaFX and spring but I literally never had to touch the spring components. My best skills are really just picking up things quickly and deducing problems. More generalized than some crud developer Idk, can someone help me out and critique or bash or make fun of me or troll me or whatever you want I am just trying to figure out how to get to commercial so I can start putting cool buzzwords on my skills and not have to worry about this again Tc 96k YOE look in resume
Not terrible, not great. 6/10
Your bulletpoints aren’t very relevant to SWE
When you say SWE, what do you mean? I wrote my bullets to whatever I actually spent time coding. But I’m guessing you mean it looks more like an ops job? Cause I would agree lol
Only bullet point 1 and 3 are really software engineering. Everything else is like weird SRE/IT mix
You said: My best skills are really just picking up things quickly and deducing problems. Why not put that on the resume?
Where would that fall under?
Skills
Don’t mention the actual financials. Convert them to percentages.
Will do
Random companies, fang is usually the only more accepting one
You are projecting your resume to defense oriented things. Are you applying to defense? Also did you not get promoted during your time there? Defense has inflated titles. Why do you have projects listed on there? - are they recent? If they are during college get rid of them.
Applying to commercial. I got promoted, I’m a level 2. And they are from like 3 years ago a little bit after college but I forgot all about them
If someone doesn't get promoted in defense company, do they get fired?
Slim your NG experience. Try to break it down into 2-3 bullet points. A resume is a tease, not your full life story
I would but that would leave my resume bare 😢
Which city are you in? 96k seems low. Is that base only?
Defense is low
Most likely LA or San Diego, I had a similar pay when I was at NG. Wasn’t good
Not enough buzzwords. I see nothing about microservices, availability, scale, etc. You also need more metrics, the savings one isn't enough. I know it's rough cause not everywhere works at scale or uses modern tech, but the market is competitive so you'll need to find a way to make your resume seem more modern\faang-like.
For scaling, could I say for example the configuration web app had to be easily expandable to different unclassified labs? That’s the way it “scaled” is by making it as easy as possible to put into labs. I’d have to brainstorm since scaling in defense is different than commercial for sure
That's more extensibility than scalability. I'm thinking more like "designed and built api that handles 1mil requests per minute". Even if you don't realistically hit a certain load you can use load tested values and embellish a bit.
Nothing pops out :(