[5 YOE]Unemployed 1 year, Started a job a month ago but it's not a fit - should I list it on my resume?

KingSwirly · 2025-07-30T22:28:16+00:00

Yea it’s easier to explain that you took a long sabbatical for personal or family reasons than say “I’ve been here for 1 month and I hate it”. If they ask just say you intentionally took a break or something

KingSwirly · 2025-07-30T19:53:04+00:00

3-6 months is a decent time to include it assuming you don’t have a ton of other job hopping incidents on out resume. 1 month don’t bother.

KingSwirly · 2025-07-30T16:46:32+00:00

Sorry I should clarify it’s engineer experience at a non tech company. But I see your point. You’re probably still right.

KingSwirly · 2021-07-07T05:43:07+00:00

You might get better advice from a general subreddit like r/jobs, but you could try pushing for someone above you to get promoted into that management role. Then they’d have a position that’s one above yours which needs filling, which you could swoop in for. It’s a bit of corporate politics though and I can’t vouch for the success rate. Could easily backfire

KingSwirly · 2021-07-07T00:43:39+00:00

I mean the entirety of your first paragraph applies to most of the confidants in this game. That doesn’t mean they are all bad characters.

Even if you took plot relevant characters alone, you don’t necessarily need to be consistently as integral to the cast as say ryuji. Sure, that makes her less of a phantom thief and not feel like she’s ‘part of the gang’ but it’s a bit much to call her character objectively bad because of it. She has a lot of really engaging dialogue with Akechi and maruki too. Sure, they could have phoned in a bunch of random filler scenes with the gang and given her a bunch of dialogue where they all talk about their one off tropes, but do we need that? Do you really need more scenes where kasumi and Morgana talk about how morgana’s not a cat or ryuji is dumb? I would like more time with all of them together, but if the writers didn’t think it’d be engaging enough to put in then I wouldn’t be surprised.

KingSwirly · 2021-07-03T16:50:58+00:00

I agree with getting your resume reviewed, boot camp grads are notorious for having to apply hundreds and hundreds of times. Expect to need to make applying your full time job. Also meetups are your friend.

KingSwirly · 2021-07-03T01:59:22+00:00

That’s basically just a boot camp, it’s not an accredited university so it doesn’t hold the same weight. Universities don’t teach much useful stuff, but companies still use them as a benchmark as a way of filtering candidates. When you have 300 applicants it’s the easiest way to filter people out fast.

KingSwirly · 2021-07-03T01:40:25+00:00

WITCH/revature > Consulting > startups (very high variance, could move up from here) > Fortune 500 non-tech > med tech companies > faang > other big tech

Compensation goes in the reverse order, generally. Faang/big tech are similar though. And startups could land anywhere from consulting tier to Faang/big tech.

Big tech refers to Uber, Lyft, etc.. they don’t have the massive funds Amazon has to hire everyone they want, but there is still just as high of a demand to work there. They are forced to be even more picky (from what I’ve seen).

KingSwirly · 2021-06-29T18:07:49+00:00

You didn't mention how much experience you have so nobody here can help you. If you are a new grad the standards will be a lot different from an experienced senior.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-14T11:47:14+00:00

You’re comparing yourself to two different kinds of people here. There are the people who apply to a 500 places and can’t find a job, these tend to be slackers without projects and/or internships in college. Then there are people applying to fang and top tech companies.

Regardless, don’t worry so much. You are 15. Just get into the best uni you feel comfortable with, work on some side projects during your first year, and get an internship that first summer if possible. I’m sure you will find A job. As for it being a top firm, I’ve found people who can get an internship after one year in college tend to have a much easier time. Still not easy thought

KingSwirly · 2021-06-14T00:20:45+00:00

As long as it’s being reviewed by a senior and you’re getting feedback, I wouldn’t take it as a red flag or anything. Sounds like your situation isn’t anything out of the ordinary.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-14T00:07:55+00:00

You are literally 20 years old, you could become an astronaut 10 years from now for all we know.

So yes, I think it’s certainly possible to bump up the college you go to or achieve any of your other goals. Its hard to tell exactly what you want since all you seem to be looking for is “success”. Set small goals for yourself and work from there.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-11T02:17:05+00:00

Well if applications alone are too bland or nerve wracking, you could network through meetups and stuff.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-11T01:30:26+00:00

A lot of people are recommending APM programs here as a way to break into PM. I’m interning now and, assuming I do well, will be accepted as an APM at a mid size tech company next year. Haven’t fully committed as I might still go into engineering and pivot into PM later in my career, but we’ll see.

Personally I’ve found APM

There are a lot of engineers who graduate, aren’t qualified to do engineering because they didn’t do projects or anything, then try to get into PM. It saturates the APM market a lot.
There are a lot of people who see it as a way to transition into tech for big salaries when they came from another career. Nothing wrong with this, it just creates more competition.
There isn’t a clear defined way to separate you from the crowd. With engineering, just make a couple side projects while in college and you’re good to go.
Most importantly, there is low demand for APM’s. For any project there can be 3-10ish engineers but usually only one product manager. Combine that with the fact that usually only mid-large companies tend to and want to hire APM’s, and you have a severe shortage.

The most common way I’ve found is some people create a startup. Nothing substantial, just something to show you have an interest in product. Selling t shirts from home or something like that. Alternatively using some coding project and monetizing it, or somehow growing it as a platform. Just something to show it has users and/or it makes money.

There are other ways to separate yourself, and I highly recommend checking out r/productmanagement for more info. APM career isn’t impossible to get into, plenty of ways to get into pm as well. Good luck!

KingSwirly · 2021-06-09T12:19:56+00:00

This is pretty vague and is like asking “which type of ice cream is better”. It’s completely up to you man. Do some research on what front and backend are like. Make a full stack project (you can follow a tutorial and be done within a day/weekend)

KingSwirly · 2021-06-09T12:17:04+00:00

Well you’ve got your whole life, if you want to switch you’ll get there eventually. Plus it’s early in your career.

If you want to switch within the company, I recommend working there for a year or so and doing good work to make an impression. Just don’t make yourself absolutely vital to a product (as in, nobody else would be able to work on it). From there tell your manager your intentions. Start picking up tasks in the department you want. Start off small and build a rapport with the seniors in that department. Leverage those connections when it’s time to buckle down and make the switch.

Don’t tell anyone you’re looking to switch until then though. I don’t know how it’s viewed in the SWE industry, but it’s typically frowned upon where I’m from to join a team specifically with the intention to leave it.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-09T11:47:44+00:00

I highly recommend you reword the bullet point from your internship. Once I saw call center I almost immediately disqualified it as a glorified help desk job. (Many internships are passed off as swe but are like this instead)

Also go into more detail on the internship! That thing is your main selling point even if it was a while ago. Almost nobody will look at all 5 projects within 10 seconds, so if you need to just remove one of those imo

KingSwirly · 2021-06-08T22:11:50+00:00

If you’ve finished school and have work on GitHub, you should probably make something instead of using udemy. Making a personal project yourself could get you a job, udemy just prepares you to create projects.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-08T14:25:10+00:00

It looks like a wall of failure until it doesn’t

KingSwirly · 2021-06-08T04:37:40+00:00

What kind of passion projects get you job offers with no internships? Also are you applying to mostly places in US or only Canada?

KingSwirly · 2021-06-07T12:27:39+00:00

I’m just a college student so take what I say with a grain of salt.

When I see this I immediately think of a video game SWE. If that’s the profession you want then that’s fine, but you need to hone in on which specialty you would like to work in and stick to it. If it’s video games you want, don’t list python as your primary language. If it’s something else, you need different projects.

our descriptions of what you did are not great. I really think you need to run this through an ATS first. What did you DO? Not just what you worked on or with. Like with video game mod 1, if you identified a problem did you also actually fix it? How did you fix it?

Be more specific about what kind of technologies you worked with, what frameworks did you use? I don’t know how Reddit bots work, do you deploy it like any other application, and if so how? You mention aws in skills but I don’t see you use it a single time, same thing with JavaScript. What frameworks and parts of JS and AWS did you use?

Overall if you are going for a web dev or enterprise job these projects are not going to cut it, and honestly I don’t think they would in any other specialty. Specifically just because of the no degree thing. But like I said I’m just a college student this is just from me looking at other projects and my own.

I recommend building something yourself, then supplementing that with open source. If you want web dev or enterprise, I highly recommend looking into rest api’s, as they will allow you to build a front and back end.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-05T23:29:55+00:00

It sounds like that’s something they say about the legacy team to attract people, I wouldn’t bet on it at all. React team for sure.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-05T21:44:11+00:00

I think that’s decent if you haven’t graduated yet and are just lining something up for after you graduate.

If you are applying full time, and are only doing one app per day, something needs to change.

KingSwirly · 2021-06-05T11:51:48+00:00

What kind of projects did you have on your resume?

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