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I'm a fourth-year 7th semester student currently pursuing my Electrical and Electronics Engineering in a Tier 3 college in Bangalore, India. I am looking to apply for AI & ML entry-level jobs as well as internships within Bangalore itself.

I previously uploaded my resume to  and used their feedback to improve the resume. However, I still want an opinion on my updated resume, so I can make some more changes and apply for jobs. I did apply for various jobs and even shared my resume with some of my connections.

Should I keep applying for AI & ML jobs or should I change the field I'm looking for? If I should change the field, I am also willing to take suggestions as to what other fields should I try in.

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I've struggled to get interviews this past year when cold applying to MAANG+ companies. I just completely revamped my resume and am looking for feedback.

I know the application responses are pre-written and generic, but the main theme of response is:

...we've decided to move forward with candidates who are more closely aligned with the position

My questions are:

• Does this resume convey someone who is closely aligned with front end engineering roles?
• If not, what role does it more closely align with?
• What else can be improved to make it attractive to a MAANG+ recruiter?

Part of my struggle(?) is I started my career as a solo developer, so I worked full stack for a number of years before moving on to a platform engineering role that is focused on front-end tooling (design systems & component libraries). My first gig wasn't with a tech company, and I lacked exposure to software development best practices, agile, scrum, etc., which is why I moved on to a proper SWE role.

I'm highly proficient with React but generally am an expert JS developer. I'm looking to move away from design systems but would stick with that niche if there was an opening at a MAANG+ company; they don't pop up often, are highly competitive, and I haven't received a call back for applications to these roles either.

One final consideration:

I am currently pursuing acceptance to a Masters in CS with an AI focus and completed a certified learning course earlier this year for developing AI with Python. So, the roles I've been targeting as of late are front end applied AI roles specifically. Similar to previous experience, my goal here is to gain exposure to professional AI development teams & practices.

Thanks in advance!

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I’m looking to land a job immediately after graduation in a couple weeks and so far I’ve applied to 50 jobs over the last 2 months with the original resume and I received 2 interviews which Isn’t an amazing conversion rate, which led me to believe I could improve upon the resume so I went to the wiki and expounded upon my work experience, removed redundant coursework, and condensed my project section and skill section. I’ve got another round of 30 jobs that I found over the holiday break and I’m hoping to further refine my resume to try and increase the conversion rate.

On a personal note, I feel somewhat melancholic. I had gone into the Co-op extremely excited and pumped, and then the contract was divested from while I was there. Ironically during the initial interview I had said I wanted to see the full lifecycle of a program as a response to where I saw myself in 5 years, I guess I got my wish seeing the death of a program. I had thought I was going to get an easy-in with Textron as a Mechanical 1 or their Leadership program, but due to the co-op ending early I don’t feel so hopeful anymore.

If the updated resume doesn’t increase the conversion rate I’m planning on taking a break from job hunting for a month to do the following:

• Get part 107 License to be fully qualified for civilian UAS roles
• Get EIT license to make my engineering side seem more qualified
• Start tailoring for local manufacturing companies and pause applications for defense

Original Resume:

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Updated using the Wiki:

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I'm a licensed civil engineer and most of my work experience is now in a telecom company making telecom permits. I think this is my career path now because I'm having hard time to apply for civil engineering jobs. Looking for recommendations on this transition and improvements on my resume. If any tips on how I can improve my resume so that I can apply for civil engineering jobs again would be more than welcome! Thank you!

Hello all,

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I am targeting for the role of Mechanical Design Engineer or Mechanical CFD Engineer.
Though I have not done any recent projects in CFD, my publication was on a CFD project and so was my bachelor's thesis (not included in this resume).

Currently, I am applying for jobs in India only.

My queries are as follows -

1. I have gone through the wiki and optimized my resume accordingly. Though I feel that it can be improved, thus I am here to ask about your review/feedback on the same.

2. Do Publications help with getting corporate jobs?

3. I have attached 2 pages of my resume to ask about my extra-curricular activities - As you can see I am quite proficient in MATLAB and I have good experience working with it. I want to include it in my 1st page, though I don't have the space to do so.

My query here is - Should I add it in the 1st page? If yes, should I eliminate a project to include this and fit all in 1 page?

4. Are the quality of my bullet points good (enough)?

5. Is the sequencing of Sections good or should I modify the section order?

I’ve been in the job search for a while now and have made several iterations to my resume based on advice from this subreddit and other online resources. However, I’m still receiving little to no responses from employers, which has left me confused about what I might be doing wrong.

I’d appreciate any tips or insights on improving my chances. I’m especially curious about how others in similar situations broke through and landed their first frontend/software role.

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Hello, I graduated from a University with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. I've done several engineering projects but I didn't have any internships. I've applied to 100+ jobs but only got 2 interviews. I'm looking for entry-level jobs in the aerospace industry. Maybe there's something wrong with my resume but I'm not. I'm hoping to receive any feedback on my resume. Thanks again.

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Hi everyone, I recently relocated to the USA, and that's why I have a slight gap on my resume and I'm looking for a new Job. I haven't found any luck so I'd appreciate feedback concerning my resume. I have applied to 300+ software engineer jobs (in the span of 2+ months) and I haven't had a single face to face interview yet so I need to fix something.
Thank you in advance for any help!

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Hi I'm currently looking for entry-level data scientist and engineering roles. My biggest issues are that I don't have any internships in DS/DE and my projects are not very impressive. I want to know what types of projects I can add to my resume to get some callbacks. I do get callbacks for SWE roles, but I want to see if I can get interviews for DS/DE roles as well.

My data engineering resume:

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My data science resume:

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I've been at my backend senior software engineer job for a little over 3 years, and I want to start looking for similar roles that are remote or in the Los Angeles area. I'm not targeting specific industries, but I'd ideally like to move to a mid-size tech company. (Existing roles have been in 1 large semi-tech corporation and 1 non-tech Fortune 500 corporation)

This is my first job hunt since joining my current gig, so I'd like a sanity check before starting applications. A few specifics:

- Is the level of detail appropriate?

- Are there gaps in the narrative or types of skills/experience a senior should have?

Thanks!

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I had a good job and performed well at it for 5 years. I came down with a chronic illness and was unable to work for about 4 years. I am now doing much better and am looking for a new job. There is now a 4 year gap since I was employed.

During that gap period, I did a meditation retreat, continuously for the 4 year period. It was during the onset of covid so it was mostly self guided so I can't point to a center or anything. I was wondering if it was at all worth it to include it as an explanation for my gap, or if it just sounds completely crazy. I have some recent projects on a github and I would say my skills are about on par where they were when I left the industry. Thank you.

What's better to put on a resume with a lot of blank space?

My undergrad capstone project

My part time jobs from college

Hobbies?

I'm drawing a blank here. I don't have any personal projects because I'm on the road all the time for work. I think I have space for the undergrad project and maybe one more thing.

Notes:
- I have more projects. One is an undergraduate research competition, but I don't include that because it is also a vibration energy harvester. It's a different design from the one on my resume, but I'm cautious about redundancy. The other is an extracurricular student sustainability project. I don't include that cause it's more project management related.

-My sentence formatting might not be up to par cause I was having writer's block and decided to just list relevant achievements and tasks.

It's a bit skinny, but any advice is appreciated!

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I searched this subreddit for any information about this, apologies if I missed something!

I am currently an undergraduate student studying systems engineering and I am preparing to graduate this coming April, and this subreddit has been great for helping me prepare my resume as I begin to apply for jobs in the coming months. The only thing is that I have pending patent application for a project I worked on last year, and I've struggled to find any solid and consistent information about how to include something like that on an engineering resume.

Should I include a pending patent application on my resume? If I should, how should I format it on my resume? Any thoughts are appreciated!

After 160 applications as an MS CS student at a no-name state school (US citizen), I landed a full-time offer at an F100 as a solutions engineer! Below is the resume I used which I now detest reading ever since switching to the Wiki‘s template. But it worked so should I really be complaining?

Awesome-CV Resume

This exact CV format is what got me my recent summer internship. And now surprisingly my first full time offer this recruiting season (after mindlessly applying with it then forgetting I did back in September lol). I tried changing to the Wiki template in the sidebar back in October and while it was cleaner I still wasn’t getting callbacks beyond OAs.

So I’ve reason to believe it’s a mix of luck and my experience and a bit of resume aesthetic preferences since I was constantly applying with this CV and pursued as many strong experiences during grad school as I could. I believed this helped me in the long run since in the interview loop for my now job offer, my experience working on a government project was noticed and praised. And it was thankfully just 1 easy OA and 2 behaviorals which I excelled in as well.

All in all it took 300 apps for my first real internship, then down to 160 as of now afterwards. What I’d recommend whether in undergrad or grad is to actually like studying CS and like programming and the works and have a drive and passion for it. As controversial as it sounds people who like what they do are good at what they do and have more success because of their discipline to grow.

Keep pursuing strong experiences and projects, email professors for good research projects to work on or TA for, be proactive, don’t just LeetCode, actually touch grass and be a nice person IRL and not obsessed with compensation or prestige or which programming language is better. This is no longer a degree you can just pass your classes in and get a job afterwards with just a to-do list. Either you put in the work to graduate with an internship, or switch majors, or do an MS CS (like me but only if you’re citizen, from my experience with other MS CS in my cohort all from India they are about to graduate with no offer due to sponsorship and despite having more experience than me so be warned).

And I will lastly emphasize this is all easy to pull off successfully for citizens. If you’re international, accept whatever happens offer or not because it is near impossible right now unless you’re like my buddy from South America with multiple FAANG internships and has done programming experiences and clubs since HS due to his passion and not his love for money. Do not DM or ask to DM. Good day!

Hello,

I have 8 years of experience mostly working on the frontend, though I've generally been referred to as a full stack or generic software engineer. I've been applying to mostly mid-level and senior frontend positions, but also some full stack. I've been wondering if there's some glaring issue in my resume or if my experience/skills are lacking or something. Thanks.

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Hey Guys,

New grad here looking for some resume feedback! I've got a mix of internships, full-time work, and initiative experience all related to data.

Would love it if you could please take a look and share your thoughts. I've got some awards and achievements too, but I usually mention them in the cover letter.

I am doubtful of couple of things, even though I tried to optimize it.

• Is the text too dense / unreadable?
• I remove certain skills ( tailoring), but maintain the format, as this is a general resume (I only include skills backed by work experience, training, or certifications). - But is it too many skills ?
• I'm targeting roles in Data Analysis, Statistical Programming, Machine Learning Engineering, and Data Science (excluding AI Engineering, Business analyst). - Is my resume lacking in some aspect for DS/ML roles ?
• Although I've received training in data engineering (Azure & GCP), I don't feel confident enough to apply for roles in that field, Just wondering does this look good enough to apply for them too ?
• The Pro-bono / volunteer roles are part time and casual respectively, any pointer's on the best way to reflect that these won't affect my working to the recruiter....

~~ TIA !!

Resume

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I've trimmed most of my resume but am still unsure whether it’s good or not.
I could write more sentence but I thought that it could be tool long for a resume
I used the XYZ method in every sentence.
Any feedback and help would be appreciated!

Hi, I am a Master's student in Computer Science at a Tier 1 university, graduating in 2025, with 4 years of prior experience as a Software Engineer and Technical Architect. My work has involved full-stack development, cloud platforms, and scalable architectures, and I’ve also published research in blockchain and machine learning.

Currently, I’m seeking Software Development Engineer (SDE) internships and full-time roles in the USA. I’d love some feedback on my resume to ensure it’s polished, ATS-friendly, and aligned with industry expectations. Additionally, I’m curious if there are any specific skills or projects I should highlight to make myself more competitive for SDE roles. Thank you in advance for any guidance or suggestions!

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US Citizen. Sent hundreds of applications pre-internship and got 1 ghost post-interview and 1 unpaid internship interview, now working that unpaid software internship (doing mid-level work like full stack user integrations because it's a startup) plus a full time accounting job (to afford the experience gained in the software internship). Trying to pivot my accounting job to work in their software department because I've built a dependable rep here but companies like mine are still laying off and outsourcing to cheaper countries.

Frontend is easiest but I'm just trying to get a PAID software job so full stack is okay, no industry preference, best with TypeScript and then Java but have some experience working with other languages/frameworks. Phoenix, AZ area, prefer remote of course, can't relocate. Background in business (MBA + accounting XP), fell in love with software so I went back to college and graduated in the worst market since the Recession and have been working a paid accounting job alongside an unpaid software internship while fighting a severe amount of burnout. Internship period is now over and they're asking me to keep working for retroactive pay starting now for when the startup funding comes in. My team lead is asking me to be the team lead and equity cofounder of his own new startup to bring in more immediate cash. Yes, it's an insane situation, but this is the world we entry-level software engineers live in now and I gotta do what I gotta do. Somehow I'm still without a paying software job.

Been trying to optimize my candidacy as much as possible, creating 4 MVP full-stack projects plus a design system for the resume, learning a wide array of languages/frameworks to tailor resume, networking with hundreds of software people on LinkedIn, a couple of small freelance gigs for friends/family, committing to GitHub nearly every day (literally) for 8 months, and now getting into LeetCode when I have the energy.

Is this resume good enough to get traction on a paying software job?

I was using an online template for my resume, applied to 35+ jobs, no response. Found this subreddit, used the template in the Wiki and instantly got 2 interview calls and 1 offer (which I have accepted).

I have some experience, but 0 years of relevant experience. And I know my new resume isn't perfect, I know my bullet points can be better. But just wanted to share my experience of using the resume format in the Wiki.

Old Template

New Template

Hello. A while ago, I submitted my resume onto this subreddit and have revised it based on both the feedback and from other resumes based on the success stories here. Without counting the applications before the revision, I've applied to around 90 positions (manufacturing, project, and design engineering roles) with the new resume and have only heard back from 2 companies (which they all ended up in me getting ghosted). So, I wanted to see if there's anything else I can do to improve my resume.

Any sort of feedback is appreciated!

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I’m currently applying for internships and a few entry level roles focusing primarily on embedded hardware/software but open to others as well. So far, I’ve sent out 120 applications but only heard back for 1 interview. Got rejected in the second round. What am I doing wrong?My Experience: Startup Experience - Electrical Engineering Intern, Undergraduate Research Lab - Test Engineer, University Robotics Club - Electrical Systems Engineer

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Hi, I am a 2nd year electrical engineering student wanting to have a career in the area of signal processing and telecommunications. Currently, I am doing research with a professor doing a project utilizing neural networks in a wifi network. I was hoping to get some advice on cleaning up resume and what I should take out or format better. I also want to make sure it gets past ATS software when I start applying for jobs. I want to try and apply for my first internships very soon. I am also not sure what EE jobs I could apply for at my 2nd year since signal processing/rf jobs are not exactly common for undergrads. Thank you.

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2 year internships at big tech companies, 6 months at a startup that has a very hostile work environment and replacing everyone with contractors.

I’m desperately applying but getting rejected like wild, I know the market is bad but what can I improve upon so I’m at least getting past the resume stage?

I’m casually looking but going to lose my job soon and need a replacement ASAP, hoping I have enough time to monkey branch

I have been applying for Data Science roles in any industry for three months now in Germany (remote) and Hamburg (on-site and hybrid) without relocation preference, since moving here. Currently, I'm working part-time at a consulting start-up, but as a side second earning. I have experience primarily in the Retail and Electric industries. Despite successfully getting three first-round interviews and advancing to the second round in one, I was ultimately rejected. I'm still actively applying but in the last month, I haven't received any new for interviews invitations, I've revamped my resume, but I still feel it needs further fine-tuning. Does anyone have any advice on what might be missing from my resume that is causing a lack of interview calls, particularly in the working experience and skills section?.

PD: I recently had my residence permit in Germany approved.

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Note: I only started applying a few months ago. Even though I graduated in 2022, I had a lot of bad luck on my side so ended up out of action for a while. Then I had the not-so-bright idea of wanting to start a company— that didn’t work out. So now I am two years after graduation and cannot get past resume screenings. My current employment status is unemployed.

The positions I am applying to are AI/ML, Backend, Data Engineering and mainly roles that have “Graduate” in the title. I am located in Ireland and applying to positions in Ireland, UK, Europe, Canada, USA. I have citizenship in Ireland/EU but do not have a visa for Canada or USA. I can fairly easily get the Canada Working Visa, but that would be March start date at the earliest. So when I apply to USA/Canada roles, I select that I currently do not have a visa.

I did quite well in college and got good grades, but none of this seems to matter as I keep getting rejected at the resume stage. I have already gotten resume feedback from other subreddits and have implemented those changes, yet I still cannot pass the resume screening.

I am seeking help here as I do not know what is going wrong with my job search as I have no feedback to go off from the application rejections. Is there something very wrong with my resume, or is the problem my employment gap?

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[0 YoE] - SWE 2024 grad applying full time - need help with updated resume, should I delete course assistant? any bad bullet/red flags?

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I’m targeting internships in the AI and ML field, ideally as a Data Science Intern or Research Intern. My goal is to secure a position by the end of my 3rd year in May 2025, but I've been facing rejections in my applications so far. Currently, I’m applying to local positions, but I’m open to international internships as well if they offer relocation support.

In terms of my background, I have some experience through projects in AI and ML and have worked on solo projects related to machine learning, but I'm unsure if my experience and project sections in the resume present this well. I’d love advice on making my resume stronger both for immediate applications and for long-term improvements.

My main aim is to improve my resume to secure interviews. Any feedback on making my experience and project descriptions more compelling or any specific ways to highlight my skills for these roles would be greatly appreciated!

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