I am preparing to send my resume out soon, but I need the Blind community's honest feedback before I send it off to my dream jobs. (Any help would be appreciated in the comments or DM!) If you look at my resume, the titles under experience section could invite questions. The company I am working at did not offer a Software Engineering title, but in my opinion I operated very much like a software developer. My co-workers feel the same as well. Let me know if that opinion holds true and if there are any additional pieces of advice you would give for an ambitious young developer (i.e. technical inconsistencies, Leetcode advise, resume format/content, etc.). Thanks in advance!!! LC: $80,000 YOE: 2.5 Years - Seattle, WA area Link for resume if needed: https://imgur.com/a/aesFg7Q #FAANG #resume #Google #Amazon #Facebook #Microsoft #software #engineer #developer #tech #help
With 2.5 YOE, you should try for L4
I appreciate you setting the bar higher than entry-level! Don't know what companies would get me L4. Any feedback on the resume?
Too much text in my opinion. Recruiter will spend 5-10 sec on your resume screening if it gets to them. Afterwards it won't matter, they will get the details from you in the process. So cut down to only the most impressive and flashiest things. Experience first, education last increase margins, bullet points in a single line instead of a paragraph Be deadly accurate and succint in getting the message of your high impact across Most important is your most recent experience.
Thanks for the feedback! What section of the resume would you have preferred trimming down for the recruiter?
The experience part should be in single line bullet points. Do 5-6 for your current position, 3 for your last one and 1-2 for earlier ones. Good job on having one page cv already.
Remove the part about pausing your degree and just put "Estimated Graduation [year]". The job descriptions are too wordy, follow the STAR pattern. Writing a 23,000 line codebase means nothing if you didn't follow the right standards.
Appreciate the specific points. I was on the fence about pausing the degree, but you pointing that out made it clear that it should be omitted. Trying to reduce the overall count from 556 words to low 400 words. Appreciate the feedback! Let me know if there's anymore specifics you can point out that should be gone!
Appreciate the link! Looks like a treasure of trove of awesome links to consider for my resume. I'll definitely check it out! Any feedback on the resume itself?
Two job titles for each role is really bad. Pick one. You promoted from SWE to BA? Are you trying to be an SwE or a BA pick one.
Thanks for your feedback! I agree that the two job titles appear bad. I have the job title as "Business Analyst" but the role is definitely that of a SWE. I am thinking of removing Business Analyst title despite being technical true. Thoughts on this?
Personally I'd put Software developer and explain if something comes up during background search, as long as the description matches it should be fine. I have worked at a place where my title was performance analyst but all I've done was data science work and my manager specifically hired for data science skills/tests, so I put data science and if they spoke to my manager he could've still vouched for what I do.
The first 2 sections need to be removed. If you used python for example mention it under the role you used it in. Listing skills IA good for search but looks novice. The objective statement is also dumb too. Present your work history in a way that makes it obvious.
Thanks for the specifics here! I agree that it'll be more useful listing the technical skills under the experience banner. I'm finding it hard to remove the skills section since a lot of recruiters scan that first for basic requirements. I am thinking of either removing the objective statement or editing it. Thoughts on that?
Sorry I meant to day remove the objective statement. That's what I meant by removing the first 2 sections.
Take the “2.5 years exp” next to the dates of your role off the resume, just keep the dates. They can do the math themselves and it looks weird on the resume
Thanks for the specific feedback! I agree removing the total years does make it less weird. I'm trying to be transparent yet informative for the recruiter. Any additional thoughts?
Transparency is good but every job search needs a little ambiguity too, at the end of the day it’s really about painting yourself in the best possible light and putting things that aren’t at top of their list for things they are looking for or things that could make the application less attractive more in the shadow.
Also, 4-5 bullet points max under your current job description, 3 for your 2nd and 1-3 (2) on your 1st. Take out the big paragraphs, not visually appealing/ too much text to distract the eye and recruiters won’t read it except for looking for key words.
I agree that this needs to be trimmed. The current is 550 words and probably needs to be low 400 words. Will definitely consider your format structure. Thanks! Let me know if you can think of anything else!
Personally i would get rid of career objective and skills. I would expand on experience.
Thanks for the feedback! I see you're from Google. Is there any other specifics you could add to this resume to get me a better chance at working with you at Google?
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Thanks for the comment! I heard Amazon is very team-oriented to find good fortunes there. Any feedback on the resume?
Awesome! I am going to apply to Amazon soon actually (internal referral). Any advice on interview prep (Leetcode, LPs, etc.) ?