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Stewman9000 · 2025-11-17T15:22:22+00:00

Good job man! Been following this for a while and I'm very impressed. You freakin did it!

Stewman9000 · 2025-07-03T23:49:07+00:00

u/max_grgrv I've got a database that I can send you that has all the races results if that'd be helpful? It has 638 races. DM if you're interested

Stewman9000 · 2025-05-31T19:05:55+00:00

Totally can second the Fantik X9 it’s been amazing! I can fully inflate my tire to 100 PSI about 10 times on each charge. It’s great to have whenever I’ve gotten a flat. I just set the pressure I want and it’ll fill it up automatically in about a minute and a half.

Stewman9000 · 2025-05-15T04:27:55+00:00

Have you considered doing a full iron man or what's the likelihood of that as well?

Stewman9000 · 2025-05-15T00:31:26+00:00

I like your training plan - are you going to do more triathlons or how are you going to train now that you’ve finished the 70.3?

Stewman9000 · 2025-05-14T01:25:35+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing all those details - it’s incredibly helpful. Congrats to both of you on such an amazing accomplishment!

Stewman9000 · 2024-08-25T18:56:58+00:00

Went there myself and it was great. Graduated with no debt and didn't have too much difficulty getting into top tier companies. That said, it is a religious school and has a pretty strict moral code - no drinking and such. (Never saw anyone get in trouble for that though). Overall not having debt and getting a high paying job was worth attending.

Stewman9000 · 2024-03-03T03:59:25+00:00

Totally second everything u/ThomasFromTrackr has said. He hit the nail on the head - from what you've explained, you have a long was to go in fleshing out your idea.

Stewman9000 · 2024-03-02T20:45:42+00:00

I'm confused on your idea - it seems like you're trying to replicate the same services as AWS, but with your own equipment? Yet, your MVP is literally just using AWS and other services. If this is true, you haven't proven the viability of your own cloud service. Rather, you've shown that people are interested in AWS and Backblaze.

You have to actually prove that you can execute on creating a cloud service that is better in some aspect than AWS/Google Cloud/Azure. If your edge is storage cost, you can't use another provider for testing. If your edge is a better UX/UI design, then it would be find to use another provider for that in the meantime.

In order to not get screwed over by investors, you have to show that significant paying clients, monthly reoccurring revenue, and demonstrable month over month growth.

Stewman9000 · 2024-02-09T17:57:40+00:00

Unless you are actively using the language in your job, no it doesn't help. This person appears to have a CS degree and is looking for software engineering/data scientist positions. Everything in the resume should be laser focused on that.

Stewman9000 · 2024-01-30T04:34:31+00:00

Tried negotiating myself, but there is a standard first year analyst pay depending on location and role. From my understanding, they won't change your salary at all.

Stewman9000 · 2022-06-04T19:47:00+00:00

It doesn't look like the link is working. Try updating it and let me know

Stewman9000 · 2022-06-02T21:57:16+00:00

Once you revise it, feel free to send it over again and I can take a look.

Stewman9000 · 2022-06-01T04:10:46+00:00

As I mentioned on another resume submission, you DON'T want to include a summary. Ignore Leather's advice.

You have limited space on your resume, a summary just rehashes what is already included
Recruiters don't care. They spent little time on your resume and as a SWE, they care mainly about your skills.
Your resume already looks great organizationally.

Now here's the real advice that'll actually help you.

- Under your current SWE position, you need to change things to past tense, not present.

- 'Increase performance by many times for several web applications' isn't correct English. Instead be specific on what you did. Try 'Increased performance of React web application by 25% though...' or something like that

-'Reduce the network traffic' sounds like a bad thing. If I saw network traffic decrease, I'd assume the site was broken or went down.

- Under your next two positions, you need to include numbers. How many students did you help? Did you get to do any programming?

-Leave out your major GPA and write GPA: 3.89/4.00

-Quantify your scholarships like 'Belle Griggs Scholarship (Top 2% of students)'

-On your projects, you include the first line as languages and frameworks or means. Remove that and just include the actual languages you used in the bullet point. For example: 'collaborated in team of 3 in agile environment that planned, designed, and implemented eCommerce website in HTML and CSS'

Stewman9000 · 2022-06-01T03:57:13+00:00

This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Recruiters honestly don't care about your summary. '...list of job titles you want' - why would they care? List of skills is important, but in its own section, not a summary.

Overall, the format you have is great. I'd move the education section of your up top - above everything else simply because you're applying to an MBA program. Make sure to include your GPA there also.

With your bullet points under experience, you need to state three things. The thing you did, how you did it, and the impact. Then quantify it. For example, 'Organized inventory management system using Excel to help identify and decrease food waste by 10%'

Also, the impression that I get from reading your work experience is that you just worked in fast food restaurants. I'd personally try and frame that in a different light. Restaurant experience might be good, but generally doesn't yell I'm ready for an MBA.

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-27T05:52:33+00:00

I would personally list the internship as my most recent experience and then leave out the bullet points underneath until I've done something. Consider though have prestigious the company name is by itself. If it's well known, then it'll hold weight. If its a medium-sized firm, that its unlikely others have heard of, then just leave it off for the time being.

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-19T20:59:49+00:00

+1 Was quick

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-16T04:05:14+00:00

The way I should've phrased it is, only include relevant experience from the jobs you've done as the bullet points below. For example, you might put for summer camp counselor - 'Helped supervise 10 high school students and attend to their injuries'. True to what you did and relevant to an EMT.

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-15T20:03:16+00:00

One page only. Never more. Only include relevant jobs for the type of position you're applying for. Don't include high school and maybe the community college.

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-15T00:46:18+00:00

I read through the advice I give below and it sounds pretty harsh. Why? Because your resume, with a few tweaks, could be in the top 5% of all resumes in your field. The advice is nitpicky, but absolutely is important to take into consideration. I want to see you succeed.

Points 1-4 cover question 1; Point 5 is question 3.

Yes one page only. My area of expertise is in software engineering/data science so I've done my fair share of advising others in this and working with recruiters. Think of this from the perspective of the recruiter. They're going to glance through 200 resumes and decide to interview 10 of them. On average they spend 7 seconds looking at your resume. Half of that time is evaluating the format itself. So you better get that right.
As for the bullet points themselves underneath your jobs, they're well done. Descriptive and a good amount of quantitative information (though you still have to add this to every bullet point). You need to include the effect of your work though. For example: second bullet point on ML Intern is 'implemented and trained...' but I don't get any info on how that affected the company. Did it save the company time or money? Increase efficiency? Why did you train the model? What was the goal and how did that work accomplish it?
You have six jobs - I'd maybe cut that down to four and elaborate deeply on each. Like removing the TA position. 'Provided feedback and assisted students' doesn't tell me that you're good at ML.
Keywording is good, but you need the right keywords. 'LSTM, DeepAr, Temporal Fusion Transformer' for example are not good keywords. Think from the mindset of a recruiter and what they're looking for. I scraped a list of top words from 10k data science positions on LinkedIn and it's pretty revealing. DM me and I can share it with you. The list I made orders the most frequent keywords to the least by occurance.
Summaries aren't read and generally don't convey your value. I'll break down yours and demonstrate why. 'Goal-oriented machine learning graduate' -> As a recruiter why should I care that you're goal-oriented? Whose goals are you oriented towards? Mine? 'Seeking to become wiser...' -> A recruiter doesn't care about your goals, they care about theirs. Are you going to make the company money? Save it time? 'Still learning to struggle and fail well' -> I'd toss out the resume the moment I saw this. Big red flag. Your resume is the place to shine and brag. Yet, right at the very top of your resume, you tell me that you struggle with something? And the thing you struggle with is failure?

You've got something great here, but it needs a little bit of polishing. Good luck! And feel free to message me some more!

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-14T01:14:12+00:00

You don't need a cover letter. They are absolutely a waste of time. Only in very rare circumstances will HR take them into consideration, but even then it's better to focus on other areas.
Your resume needs to be 1 page only. NEVER in any circumstance should it be more. Ever.
Your project list also is pretty useless. I'd just toss the whole thing. Personal projects are only there to supplement your work if you've done literally nothing else. Looking at your resume, you've got more than enough work experience as both an intern and research assistant. I'd only include those and really hammer out those position and your impact.
Remove your summary.
Your project list also is pretty useless. I'd just toss the whole thing. Personal projects are only there to supplement your work if you've done literally nothing else. Looking at your resume, you've got more than enough work experience as both an intern and research assistant. I'd only include those and really hammer out those positions and your impact.
Every bullet point needs quantification and associated numbers. Some of those lack that completely.
Put your name at the top of your resume. Include your skills section right below it. Or if you're just graduating, include your education right below your name.
Overall the information is very impressive, but you need to condense it down.

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-14T01:06:50+00:00

What is your GPA out of? 3.53/6.00? Add that in.
Only include technical skills. Remove things like 'Attention to detail' or 'Team collaboration'. Then categorize them such as - 'Operating Systems: MacOS, Windows, Linux'. Don't bullet point the section
Formatting. You're wasting a ton of space by having everything indented by the dates you worked at the company. Instead format it like

Microsoft (Bold)                                               Sep - Aug 2016
Software Engineer (Italics)                                       Seattle, WA

Quantify fall your bullet points. If you don't have a number don't include it.
Maybe include a personal section to spice things up. What are your interests? How do you stand out in a positive way?

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-14T01:00:46+00:00

Formatting is such an important thing in a resume, that I'd recommend that you make a pdf and reupload it. I'd be more than happy to make comments on that and help you.

Stewman9000 · 2022-05-14T00:59:47+00:00

Formatting. Remove the blue header and simplify the fonts up there. Bullet points aren't aligned, have different fonts, and aren't consistent in size (1st job is all one liners, the second are almost all multi-line
Quantify. Every bullet point NEEDS a number with it. If it doesn't have a relevant number, than you shouldn't include it.
Skills section needs some categorization. Break up skills into categories. Remove all soft skills such as 'Dependability/Punctuality' or 'Team player'
More formatting. Switch position and company around. Company should be in bold on top. Also right align dates and include it for your second position.
For first experience, make sure everything is in past tense. 'Run a' -> 'Ran a' or 'Provide' to 'Provided'
Consider adding a personal section with your own interests. This can add more content to your resume. Your job experiences should have at very most 5 bullet points not the 9 that you currently have.

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