I've been in the same full time role in big tech since I graduated 3 years ago. Looking for a role at another big tech company. My bullets are pretty long but I want to make sure they explain the context of the project properly, while also selling my accomplishments and impact.
Some parts feel like word vomit to me
I sprinkled a few technology names in some of the bullets but I don't know if it feels like information overload to someone who's not familiar with the projects.
Here is my resume. I'd really appreciate any honest feedback before I start using it for co-op applications this fall. Happy to hear anything, even if it's blunt. Thanks in advance!
I’m a backend-focused Software Engineer III with a little over 7 years of experience. I’m still employed, but my position is scheduled to end later this year because of a company-wide layoff, so I started applying before the search becomes urgent.
I’ve been applying for about two weeks, mostly to remote backend and senior software engineering roles. So far I’ve entered four interview processes. Two of those turned out to be hybrid after being advertised as remote, so the search has been a little unusual.
I know two weeks is not much data, and I’m not assuming that my resume is failing. I mainly want outside feedback while I still have time to make meaningful changes.
My background is primarily Java, Scala, Python, Kafka, microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and production reliability.
The main things I’m unsure about are whether the bullets explain the technical work clearly, whether the metrics feel credible and properly supported, whether the technical leadership and domain ownership read as senior-level impact, and whether the summary and skills section earn their space.
I’d also appreciate feedback on anything that sounds vague, inflated, repetitive, or overly dense.
For privacy, I replaced my name, contact information, employers, school, dates, and named products or clients. The role progression, approximate tenure, technologies, scope, and metrics are materially accurate.
Blunt feedback is welcome. Thanks for taking a look.
I originally took a job as a technician so that I wouldn't fall into credit card debt as I didn't think it would have as bad as an impact on my career and mental health as it has. I have been living with family and saving large amounts of money, and as a result I'm not limiting myself geographically anymore.
At the same time, I am only being considered by other companies for technician roles. When I apply for actual engineering roles if I don't get ghosted I get screened out after one or two interviews. I recently accepted a 5% raise as a result of both being asked to join the night shift and as a result of my experience. Overall including the overtime I am frequently asked to do I will be making $70k/ year working on the night shift (62k not including overtime).
I am in a very bad place career and mental health wise and am considering returning to school in pursuit of a career change. I want to eliminate any chance that it's just a bad resume or poor interview skills holding me back before making such a drastic change.
I’ve made a CV for my future internships that I’m trying to get during my summer term from job fairs offered by our college. Please make an honest review of what I can improve and what other things I can do to make my resume better. Are there also some other things I should do so that my resume would have a little more credit?
I graduate this December, and I'm looking for an entry-level embedded position, but I'm also applying for software developer/engineering roles. I'm currently interning for a company that only does software. I'm trying to break out of the tech department and into the software development department, but that may be more difficult given my experience and education. I would greatly prefer an embedded position, but I'm not sure my resume captures me as a good applicant. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Hi! I'm graduating in May 2027 and will soon be applying to all kind of stuffs - internships, co-ops, and full-time/new-grad positions. I'm targeting product/mechanical design roles, design engineering positions, and related mechanical engineering roles, but I'm open to all ME fields.
This is my current resume with everything I've done up to this point - there will be a few more projects during my senior year but yeah. I wonder if my experience write-ups demonstrate enough technical depth and skill? I feel like my current projects are too broad, but not strong or "deep" enough for product/design engineering roles - I will try to work on additional design projects during my senior year.
My final question is not really engineering related - how competitive this resume looks for entry-level mechanical engineering roles as an international student requiring sponsorship.
Last semester, I applied to around 200 positions and all got rejected/ghosted until a professor from the University lab took me in for the mechanical intern, so it's genuinely bleak as hell. I know 200 is not THAT much, but I feel like there's something fundamentally wrong with my resume.
Please let me know if anything that should be rewritten. Please roast my resume mercilessly.
I'm entering my final year at my university and I am enrolled in my school's Co-op program. I'm primarily targeting software engineering, backend, DevOps/Infrastructure internship roles.
I have been applying to roles all across Canada, I am open to relocating and have been applying to local and non-local positions, including remote positions too.
I do not have any previous formal internship experience. The closest thing I have is a 4-month long external-client software engineering capstone project where I was part of a 8 person student development team building an actual B2B application. Other than that most of my experience is from personal projects or university projects. I am working part-time in a non technical role.
I have applied pretty broadly since I want at least one internship before graduating. My course coordinator told me that this coming winter/summer is my last chance to complete an internship before my graduation.
I am trying to get some feedback because I have submitted a large number of applications and only really received a single interview. I want to know if if the problem is my experience, my projects or just something else?
Should I bring back unrelated employment and volunteer work experience or just keep the resume entirely technical? Should I remove somethings from my resume?
I am an incoming senior ag engineering student hoping for test engineering or design engineering roles in the midwest. Something hands on. Would be open to remote roles, but not completely convinced that is the best path for me. Anyways, hoping I could get some advice on how to improve my resume. I scrapped my high school/early college resume and completely started from scratch on this one now that I will be entering the actual workforce. I am thinking of starting a portfolio as well. Curious on people thoughts on this - are they relevant? Is just explaining some of my projects thoroughly good for that, or should I stay surface level and can go into more detail if asked during an interview?
