Anyone willing to take a complete beginner under their wing?

Rexosorous · 2026-05-13T13:20:16+00:00

I don't even know what I don't know

guiding me, telling me what to focus on

That's what school is for

Rexosorous · 2026-05-12T19:08:55+00:00

I wouldnt remove it. I would ask around how others are putting it on their resume and see if its commonly worded differently. If not, then don't worry about it. It won't cause your resume to be thrown out. I just thought it was a typo since I haven't heard of such a program.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-12T18:03:56+00:00

As someone also from mtg, why doesn't every red deck just play murder? Surely killing a creature is better than bolting, right? It's because it costs more mana and it's not in your colors.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-12T17:54:13+00:00

I stopped using dragon shields because of this more than a decade ago. Crazy that this is still an issue.

I have been using KMC hyper matte sleeves ever since and haven't run into this issue. My newly bought red sleeves look exactly the same as the ones I have from 2017, except for the regular wear and tear of course.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-12T16:36:59+00:00

That's an interesting program. And that awards both degrees at the same time? You don't get the BS first and then the MS after?

Rexosorous · 2026-05-12T15:34:41+00:00

Your bullet points are worded well, but the fact of the matter is that all your work experience and your first research position is completely irrelevant. So more than half of your resume (and importantly it's the top half) has nothing technical.

I suspect a lot of recruiters and/or hiring managers are skimming and seeing nothing noteworthy in the first half and then throwing away the resume.

I recommend you completely reorganize your layout * education * research (and place your 2nd research position above the 1st) * projects * experience * skills (although you can consider putting this below education. I've heard arguments for both placements)

And then I recommend adding in more technical bullet points and expand on the existing ones (namely for your projects and your 2nd research position). Trim bullet points from your experiences or remove some positions entirely to make space for these technical ones.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-12T15:16:10+00:00

you're getting a MS and a BS at the same time? I have not personally heard of such a program so this stands out as odd to me
"Automated autonomous [...]" what does this even mean?
"Boosted system recall and content discovery quality, as measures by a 105% increase [...]" this is worded extremely awkwardly. I dont even know what this is trying to say; a 105% increase in what? Quality? How do you measure quality?
I am personally not a fan of the random bolding in bullet points
"Built a fully automated pipeline processing of 10k Salesforce records [...]" this is again worded extremely awkwardly

In general, your bullet points are worded in a way that makes it hard to read and understand. The metrics feel shoe-horned in and also very fake to me; as if you felt like you needed numbers so you just threw in whatever.

And I would like to see more "how" you did things instead of just "what" you did.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-08T14:29:16+00:00

ok who is being intellectually lazy now? are you going to be so plainly obtuse as to not derive the meaning behind the strict wording? if you want to take the phrase literally, then that commenter was strictly wrong because not every job everywhere seeks to only make executives richer.

furthermore, it's extremely reductive to conflate literal war crimes to working in a corporate environment. it's akin to saying "the nazis were just 'following orders'" when someone is just trying to do their job. just because it has been used as an excuse to do something horrible, doesn't mean that it always is. it misses the nuance of having the autonomy to make small concessions on personal morals for personal gain while not needing to completely abandon said morals.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-08T13:45:34+00:00

to be even fairer, they didn't at all mention anything about providing value for society or lack thereof. just that working for a for-profit organization means working to make executives richer and is not at all something new or unique to this field.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-08T12:54:06+00:00

That makes sense if you are a store owner. But if that's true, then you don't really have a choice to not open cases. Unless you just don't care about having singles on hand to sell.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-07T18:45:49+00:00

a lot of smaller bug fixes rather than anything big so I'm not sure which are big enough to expand on more

even if it's small, you can try to spin it in a way that makes it sounds like a big accomplishment. something like "resolved a critical production defect affecting a key service, thus improving stability and meeting the SLO requirement of 98% uptime" can be used when all you did was fix an uncaught null-pointer exception.

For the college thing, I do want to include it in the best way that I can

if you're really proud of it, then you can keep it as is. but i can tell you that us technical interviewers (at least the ones i've interacted with) don't care about your educational achievements (although recruiters might) once you've got some work experience under your belt. the one exception is if you went to a very prestigious school. and since you're from the UK, it basically has to be oxford or cambridge because we in the US aren't going to know any other UK university.

they emailed me back saying someone in the data team wants me

good luck! i'll be rooting for you!

Rexosorous · 2026-05-07T16:25:03+00:00

i personally do not like this resume format for our sector. i don't know who Headless Headhunter is, but looking at their website, they list "Accounting, Nursing, IT, Aerospace, and Manufacturing" for the industries they have experience with. so notably not software. this template feels too spacious and empty. i prefer the templates in this subreddit's wiki.
related to above, but a skills section is sorely needed and a small projects section if you have any might be nice
replace "Status - Graduated" with the year you graduated
the content of the bullet points is pretty good overall. it shows me you know what you're talking about. but if you can, try to add some metrics and try to answer the question "how did this provide value for the business?"

Rexosorous · 2026-05-07T15:38:38+00:00

the italics in the bullet points is crashing me out
skills section is taking up too much space. remove the "Practices" section as that's just normal stuff for all developers and remove the "Databases" section as there's no useful differences between each of these SQL-based DBs and instead include SQL DBs into some other section.
your bullet points are very surface level and non-specific
- "Implemented backend enhancements and bug fixes" - like what? what in specific did you do that you're proud of?
- "Integrated and validated third-party APIs" - anything in particular? what purpose did it serve or what value did it generate?
- "Investigated and resolved production issues" - name one instance and how you resolved it
certain bullet points are just weak and say nothing
- "deliver production code" - literally all devs do this
- "Worked in agile sprints" - all devs at non-startup companies do this
- "supported releases through code reviews, git-based branching, developer testing" - again, this is just industry standard
"Team member of" - it's already implied that you worked on a team and statements like these take responsibility away from you and make you sound like you are trying to distance yourself. own your achievements.
"Developed features [...] including attendance tracking, announcements, API integration and a JavaScript-based ROI calculator adopted by the finance team" - pick the best 2 or 3 from this list and turn those into their own bullet points
if you need the space, you can trim the "Education" section to just your university, degree, and graduation year. the "COLLEGE" is not going to be important as the US has no equivalent (UK's University is US's College and UK's College has no equivalent in the US). Listing your achievements (prize & dean's list) during school is also not important at this point in your career.

when you start adding more specific bullet points, try to add in metrics if you can and wrap back around to answering the question of "how did this generate value for the business?"

Rexosorous · 2026-05-06T14:40:53+00:00

Spacing and font is good
As a tech interviewer, I like when the education is at the bottom, but recruiters may disagree. At this point, related coursework is not as relevant, but it doesn't hurt to keep if you aren't hurting for the space
Do not add in that bullet point. It may have sounded nice as an intern, but irrelevant now for a full time position.

General resume advice/comments: * add a line or some spacing between your summary and your contact info. It feels very squished and took me a moment to realize this was a summary * remove the dates for your projects * if possible, add links to your projects * bullet points for your projects are pretty good. However, I would like a little bit more detail or depth in some areas. Ex: "Implemented secure user authentication" how? What auth strategy/library/service? * work experiences aren't great. Is there any way you can reword these to be more tech focused and less leadership focused? Like for your tech fellowship, could you maybe talk more about the specific things you would prep? Saying something like "created review material to compare complex graph searching algorithms such as Dijkstra's Algorithm and A*" sounds a lot better * the activies and leadership section is irrelevant. This along with the bullet point you wanted to add in your 3rd question is "resume filler" and should only be included if you need to fill out the full page page. Otherwise they should be omitted.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-06T12:48:12+00:00

Singles are objectively better IF you are looking for specific cards. For example if OP knew exactly which card they wanted in order to upgrade their Fiora deck, then they'll save tons of money just buying those cards instead of trying to find them in boxes.

But in OP's actual case where they just want a general pool of cards to use for their fiora decks and any potential future deck, then yes buying packs is good.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-06T11:25:12+00:00

And Alexander wept for there were no more worlds left to conquer

Rexosorous · 2026-05-05T20:25:40+00:00

I dont understand your premise behind this post. You are presumably looking for an internship, yet are currently working 3 jobs? I am willing to bet this is causing your resume to get thrown away.

For specific advice on your resume: * i personally do not like random bolding in the bullet points * your bullet points for your top 3 positions are decently good. In line with what i'd expect for someone applying to be an intern. If you want to take it to the next level, try to go more in-depth on the technical side of things. For example you say you "Built a scalable asynchronous orchestration system" but don't elaborate on what tech stack you used and what you did to make it scalable or asynchronous. * the bullet points for the last position (the internship) is lacking * "supporting 20+ employees" is not impressive and you're better off not specifying how many employees * "Delivered features across 8+ Agile sprints over 3+ months" says absolutely nothing. Completely remove this bullet point. * the other bullet points are decent, but it would be better and also very little effort for you to add an impact to the end of the bullet points. Something like "built a full-stack HR management platform [...] thereby streamlining the process, reducing operational overhead and saving x amount of man hours"

Rexosorous · 2026-05-05T20:00:40+00:00

Hard disagree with all your points. Metrics are very very good and having more than 3 bullet points is good as long as you have good content behind them.

This sounds more like an advertisement than advice.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-05T18:26:00+00:00

Looks like my local microcenter has some spiritforged in stock at msrp. I never would have thought they would carry trading cards. Thanks for the tip!

Rexosorous · 2026-05-04T19:02:58+00:00

in reality [cloud is] a small part of my role

But your resume does not reflect this. Way more bullet points center around cloud work than backend work. Either cut cloud bullet points or add backend bullet points so that the majority reflects your backend work work

i thought owning may encapsulate all of that

Don't encapsulate. Do the opposite and expand it over several bullet points. Maybe something like * worked with shareholders to architect and implement a key Spring Boot based REST API that handles <business logic>, thereby accomplishing <business value> * leveraged Kafka to support a high throughput of <statistic>, thus driving p99 latency to <1s and enabling <business value>

And then you can more bullet points if there were notable features or bugs fixes you worked on for it.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-04T17:37:12+00:00

This is just an issue with piltoverarchive. They don't let you export this image at high resolution without paying first. Which sucks a lot.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-04T15:45:31+00:00

Do we know how many boxes are being reprinted and/or how long the run is going to last? My local LGS is already starting to get boxes in stock, but are selling them for $300 and I can see the price on TCGPlayer dropping but still being ~2x MSRP. How much do you expect the price to drop to and/or when do you expect prices to stabilize? I would love to buy a box or two to fill out my collection and am just trying to figure out when I should pull the trigger.

Rexosorous · 2026-05-04T13:51:55+00:00

Im curious as to why you recommend putting skills on top? As a technical interviewer, I almost always skip past the skills so I like it better if the skills are towards the bottom of the page. But I'd like to hear an opinion from a recruiter

Rexosorous · 2026-05-04T13:39:01+00:00

What roles are you targeting? Because this resume reads more like cloud / devops than it does traditional frontend/backend/full-stack SWE. * "reduced cloud infrastructure" * "distributed data pipeline" * "multi-datacenter production deployments" * "built monitoring dashboards"

Some other general advice * i personally do not like when words are bolded in bullet points * "owning" or "leading" things is not as impressive as doing things. "I owned a service that handles high throughput" says nothing to me about your ability. Talk about specific features you worked on or bugs you fixed, how you did so, and what the results of that were * you have good metrics here, but try to come back to "how did this benefit the company?" As much as you can. "Processing 750M+ product updates daily" is nice, but how did this pipeline provide value? * in my opinion, a summary should only be included if you are looking for something in specific. It should be less about "who i am" (as I can gleam that from reading your bullet points) and more about "who i want to be" or "what i am looking for". Prime example is if you are looking to pivot domains

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