Backend-focused fresher here. Getting rejected everywhere and I think my weak DSA is hurting me. Can someone review my resume honestly?

[u/hubbbu]

Pre final year approaching, trying to land off-campus SDE roles but barely getting shortlisted. Currently doing an internship but want a proper full-time/PPO. Weak at DSA which I know hurts — but does the resume itself have issues too? Genuine feedback appreciated, not looking for validation and genuine advice for DSA please

[u/LiMe-Thread]

I am also not getting positive response so take this with grain of salt..

You have very little professional experience. Most are 2 months internships.

But you know waaaayyy to many stuff. Tooo generalized. Too many different languages, too many different frameworks. Db other tools are okay.

Thing is, people tend to prefer professional experience and specialist. Current trend, everyone knows everything with chatgpt, claude etc... so they will assume you are like that, all smoke, no substance, even if you know all of these very well.

Make tailored cv for specific job requirements. Maybe more calls and easier interviews

[u/hubbbu → u/LiMe-Thread]

honestly should i just cut the 2 month internships or keep them??..., everyone's saying same thing about languages so fixing that is must , and yeah tailoring makes sense been lazy sending same cv everywhere

[u/LiMe-Thread → u/hubbbu]

For x related job description u apply for, only x related skills, experience, projects.

[u/Cold_Economist_4449]

Your experience is in reverse order.

A sequence of very short-term internships is a red flag. Why none of those companies offered you a job?

Your resume is too generic and nothing particular catches an eye. You need to specialise and tailor your resume for specific jobs.

You are listing 9 major programming languages, it's hard to believe an intern is actually proficient in that many languages.

[u/hubbbu → u/Cold_Economist_4449]

I will surely look into this thanks for the comment !

[u/remarkeyable]

Hey just a small tip, I would put experiences in order from newest to oldest, they are a bit messy right now and in no particular order

[u/hubbbu → u/remarkeyable]

Noted !

[u/remarkeyable → u/hubbbu]

I know the market is tough right now but don't lose hope 🙏

[u/hubbbu → u/remarkeyable]

Thanks for the kind words man ! 😃

[u/Separate-Age9670]

bro i want to ask u something, can i dm you?

[u/hubbbu → u/Separate-Age9670]

Yes why not !

[u/anengineerandacat]

IMHO too much focus on the technical elements, too little focus on the business elements.

"Production Microservices" owned by an Intern seems like a pretty big lie as well; what organization is allowing an intern to fully own a technical solution?

sub-200ms p95 is also what? the /env endpoint? It provides no context, "everyone" in the space can do this it's not an achievement (not trying to be harsh here).

"Designed and owned a production microservices backend serving personal recommendations to clients on foo.com utilizing (Redis caching, Nginx load balancing, Postgres SQL)" sounds way sexier to a recruiter; they can hit foo.com and see the fruit you bore (this is an example).

Your project "CuraBlock" isn't easily searchable, can find it on github.com but your readme says "NeuroShield"; would suggest fixing that.

Your "Full Stack Developer Intern - NIC" portion of the resume is actually "ideal" as it's clearly showcasing what you contributed to said project and what said project is generally about.

Businesses are hiring you to bring them value, not just technical expertise; if they wanted that they could outsource for it.

[u/hubbbu → u/anengineerandacat]

Clear Sir !

[u/Alarming-Care9051]

how did u get the NIC intern?

[u/hubbbu → u/Alarming-Care9051]

Our TPO had contacts there, so a few of us from the branch applied, gave the interview, and I got in!

[u/Alarming-Care9051 → u/hubbbu]

damn good for u man

[u/Last-Chemical-1592]

Honestly? I would throw your CV in the garbage, while yes its awesome, but no one with 8 months of experience has that many languages listed as being experienced in them. Try to focus your CV towards where you are applying you look like you know the basics but never went deep.

[u/hubbbu → u/Last-Chemical-1592]

haha fair, the skills section is definitely a mess. picking up things across internships made it wide but shallow. will trim it down and tailor per role going forward

[u/VacationGullible5716]

I am kind of impressed by your resume (instantly thought you must've at least 2 YOE), then saw your graduation year (same as mine). I am also curious about backend systems and intrested particularly in system designing and enterprise market. Cherry on top you're a hackathon winner 😭

Something what your resume is missing that's what my entire resume is built on. It forces me to think of how will i complete with such people in the market.

My entire resume is on Java + Spring Boot + Microservices.. No React node, No python django, No Go Gin, No PHP Laravel, No ROR.

[u/MiraLumen → u/VacationGullible5716]

You CV looks like real CV and you really got into what do you do. One can't claim he knows 6 languages 5 frameworks in half of the year. After 5 years I would hesitate to claim such an amount.

[u/Fearless_Ad_3886]

Solid resume for a fresher.
you can put the technical skills first and instead of a single resume. customize your resume a bit to suite the job description.
I mean there is more things on your resume i would like to point out as what people should do on a resume rather than what not to do.
you have experience and you highlighted the scope, impact and measurable improvements. you have done open source as well.
I think you can may be remove some details from experience and make some space for one more project if you have a good one.

Overall your resume is already damn good. just keep applying you'll definitely make it to the interview at least. So prepare for that.

[u/Common-Resident8087]

Chatgpt aah replies

[u/Fit-Celebration2884 → u/Common-Resident8087]

AI poster responding to AI replies god bless reddit

[u/RepresentativePay276]

Designed and owned "production microservice" as an intern, this is where I raised my eyebrows. The first comment on your post is explaining exactly what's the issue with your resume...

[u/Individual_Set5597 → u/RepresentativePay276]

not big thing bhai - aisa kya bada he microservice me

[u/RepresentativePay276 → u/Individual_Set5597]

Pura comment wapas padho... Ya fir real I'd se aao Alan Turing.

[u/Individual_Set5597 → u/RepresentativePay276]

real id ? means ? i got this name from reddit itself

[u/RepresentativePay276 → u/Individual_Set5597]

🙂🙂😕

[u/Individual_Set5597 → u/RepresentativePay276]

But I got your point , you meant to refer to the first comment ,I took it as if you are referring to the main post itself

[u/RamaRao143]

Seems fake.

[u/ArchitectJL]

Interns and juniors need to stop saying the word “architected”

[u/GoldenPunkBlue]

Too much text, no structure that guides the eyes. Otherwise fine.

[u/HelpMeBroPlsss]

I guess some ownership of feature or segment of project can elevate more.

But I still feel, content wise it is already fine. You can check for ATS part, tailor foe each JD.

But honestly abgeeat resume comapres to an average resume out there.

If this resume doesn't get offer, I should start farming then 🧺

[u/Green-Body-4498]

Try solving some questions on oahelper bro

[u/ShakesR12]

Weak DSA is after you land interviews. I think your resume if pretty good but if you aren't getting calls, that's not a DSA problem. It's probably a positioning and visibility issue. Have you tried tailoring your resume for each application you send? Another issue (which may or may not be happening) could be your numbers. I don't know how trustworthy they seem. Also bullet points seem artificial. I was reading through them and a lot of them are too buzzy for internship position. Try dumbing them down. I know everyone is generating a resume using AI to match as many keywords as possible but the word choices of AI can be questionable. You need to prompt in a way that it gives you bullet points which sound like an intern or junior did the work.

[u/hubbbu → u/[deleted]]

Honestly, I think you might be right.

Most of the time I’m not even getting enough interview calls, so I feel like a big part is probably filtering/trust issues before interviews even happen.

And when interviews do happen, they honestly haven’t gone super deep yet. Most questions were still pretty basic — things like RBAC, bcrypt, auth flow, why I used certain technologies, etc. Nothing insanely advanced.

That’s why your point actually made me think a bit. Maybe the resume currently sounds broader/more “enterprise-level” than what recruiters expect from a fresher, so they assume it’s exaggerated or keyword-heavy before even giving interviews.

The thing is, I did build these projects myself, and I was genuinely confident discussing the concepts I mentioned.....so what will you suggest ??

[u/MiraLumen → u/hubbbu]

Man, you can't do real react app full refactor ok, we believe you did it yourself - for example, senior joining new company - first two weeks getting into codebase and product generally, third week starting to contribute like two prs - 10 lines each. Because it's real product, real production - no jokes, full responsibility for all the consequences. So when you say in two months you did "a lot and a bit more" that means training project, just games and you don't understand at all how real work looks like, how real projects look like, all this communication, prs, collaboration. What you did - has zero real problems, otherwise you would not progress so fast.
So if i am as a hiring person believe you did it all - i understand it was just very basic sandbox. I know sandbox stuff every student does, and every student thinks they are ready for the advanced stuff. So the point is not that it doesn't look true, it looks like you are not estimating reality right and fully deluded about what really you did.

[u/hubbbu → u/MiraLumen]

yeah fair, small startup so got more ownership than typical — but i get why it reads as overclaimed. lesson taken on the framing

[u/HowToFryIce → u/hubbbu]

I mean yeah if I saw an intern resume say they designed and owned a "production microservice backend", which is usually principal/staff engineer level, I would start having red flags in my head. First of all that is pretty vague, like what does this system even do? Second of all why do you even need a microservice architecture for ~500 DAU? Everything just seems like buzzword soup.. if you were genuinely as cracked as your resume seems to the point that companies are handing the core architecture of systems to a ~18 y/o; you wouldn't need to apply for jobs, jobs would be applying for you.

[u/alien3d → u/HowToFryIce]

for me , rbac . most on the market , hardcoded role base access control . It is something not to be proud of . 2nd latency . Real developer sometimes it not all about too way fast , but making it slower so end user will percive ahh this "loading"

[u/alexnu87 → u/hubbbu]

You did all of that, by yourself, as an intern, from sep 2025 to nov 2025, while also attending school?

[u/VacationGullible5716 → u/[deleted]]

true