Resume review
I have been trying to switch jobs for the 3 months for better pay and quality of work, but my resume got rejected by almost all the companies I have applied to so far(google, amazon, microsoft, walmart, servicenow, Eightfold), even with the referrals. I don't understand if my resume is just terrible or there is so much competition in the market. I am confused because I see a lot job postings everywhere but the placement season this year for most collages has been pretty bad. I would really your feedback on my resume, tips in general, insights on the current job market. Thanks in advance. Tc: 20L Yoe: 1.5y
20l at 1.5yoe is good bro…id suggest to get promoted there and then after you get atleast 2yoe start looking again…prepare till then
Reliance in general is notorious when it comes to promo cycles and hikes. According to the info I've gathered tc wont go above 30 for an SDE 2 and for SDE1 it takes 3+years to get promoted.
OP been facing the same issue. People suggested to add more numbers to show impact and be less verbose in describing experience
Yeah makes sense, thanks!
Remove 10th and 12th and use that real estate for something better
Yeah, it might be better if I add achievements instead 10th and 12th education. Thanks for the advice
Put job experience along with date prior to education like a timeline.
Yeah, I did mention dates in my original resmue. I have removed in the one I posted just to maintain the anonymity
Some pointers: Hide the 10th and 12th marks Put education at last. Always have a paragraph about who you are and professional achievements in the About me section at the top. This is the most important and how recruiters find you easily Remove areas of interest They are skills. Add proficiency in them Lastly customize the resume according to the company and apply directly in their portal
Yeah, makes sense. Not including about me section is probably biggest mistake I have done. I have added a few key words in the areas of interest section for the sake of ATS. I should probably figure out a diff way then. Thanks for the advice.
How is work culture in ajio?
Wlb is pretty chill overall. Great place to work in general, but pay is mediocre.
I would cut down the work experience to just the few most impactful items and call out the business impact. For instance writing a cron job would not impress me, but if you said something like “Decreased node recovery time by 27% by creating custom automation, improving time to mitigate by 15%” that would get my attention. Don’t highlight work that you didn’t directly impact. Being part of a team that delivered X doesn’t matter if I don’t know what you did to make that happen. Add a small paragraph at the top that is customized to the position. Something like “Seeking challenging problems that leverage my skills in ML and LLMs to solve real world issues. Hyper-passionate about emerging AI technologies and looking for a driven likeminded team at the forefront of innovation.”
Really appreciate the elaborated feedback. The product I am currently working is not in prod yet. Team is mostly focussed on delivering MVP asap than tracking metrics and scaling so we barely get to spend time on optimizing. Any idea what we can do in this scenerio?
My 2 cents. Having a bachelor’s degree and highlighting work related to training/fine-tuning LLMs will not get you into ML teams. It will make you look like a data scientist, a role that is not hot anymore. If you have done work on model inference, scaling inference, debugged ML production issues and demonstrated s/w engineering related to ML then you have a better chance. Your resume is competing with those who appear to be tinkering with ML or those who are like applied research engineers.
Thanks a lot for sharing your insights man. I was in dilemma weather to add the ML part or not because I worked on it only for 6 months and it hasn't been implemented on prod yet. I thought I might as well add since mostly I have applied to fresher roles. It might be better to remove to not confuse the recruiter ig.
DM for SAP and anyone else for a referral!
OP your experiences don’t have the date mentioned?
In my actual resume I did mention. I have removed here just to maintain anonymity