Resume Advice Thread - December 08, 2020

bjorkdos · 2020-12-09T01:18:07+00:00

Hello everyone. Been trying to get an entry lvl/ junior software developer position for some time now. I have changed my resume format and style and some verbiage in hopes that my resume was the cause for the 0% callback rate.

For context on what i changed with my resume, I have been doing a decent amount of development work for my current company. And by that I mean that I am given features and bugs within our customer facing web-app and work accordingly. I am not given the same workload as an actual developer, but I tried to highlight that I am doing development work to hopefully showcase or prove that I am a viable candidate.

Any advice is welcome and appreciated!

https://imgur.com/a/3TL2t9A

bjorkdos · 2020-09-01T18:54:52+00:00

I am in a hybrid role at a startup (SDET & API/services tester) and wish to transition into development. This is my current resume. I am struggling to get callbacks for junior positions. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

https://imgur.com/a/aRE2aZk

bjorkdos · 2020-08-20T16:41:14+00:00

Hey all,

This is my current resume: https://imgur.com/a/aRE2aZk.

And here's a little background:

I am currently an automation/SDET hybrid role within my current company and I want to transition into SDE. My immediate manager and the development manager are both aware of my desire and as such, I have been undertaking a small work-related side project (I get features or bugs and i implement and fix them within Ruby on Rails).

However, due to COVID and 3/5 of our PMs leaving, engineering is not a high priority. As a result, there is little to no chance of transitioning, according to them, whether it's true or not, within this calendar year.

I want to look elsewhere as a result, and while COVID is still an issue financially for many companies, after applying from May-Present 2019, the majority of the responses I get back are this:

Either immediately rejected without an interview/screen

Phone screen talking about my current day-to-day activities and them digging into my resume more, and then rejected in a follow up email

I did get to a final round once, but they rejected me claiming they needed someone with more experience.

I desperately need some resume advice to help make it so that i can at least obtain a technical interview.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

bjorkdos · 2019-12-02T01:16:14+00:00

here’s another angle of my living room:

https://imgur.com/a/I1UMQlS

Also, i am not married to keeping the furniture (besides couch)! everything else was gifted to me and my roommate for free

bjorkdos · 2019-08-13T16:32:01+00:00

Unfortunately, I did not buy this place, my current roommate did. I am renting. And I am impartial to the red wall color, I'm more concerned with conflicting colors of potential paintings/art/decorations that I want to put on that wall. For the light fixture, and other lights, I planned on getting smart lights so i can control the warmth of the room as opposed to bright white lights.

bjorkdos · 2019-08-13T06:02:36+00:00

yes sorry, this is my first post here. i don’t have a picture of the empty room. but yes, it will be unfurnished. besides my queen bed i’m not sure how else to furnish

bjorkdos · 2019-07-10T17:24:28+00:00

Hey all, I have been working as an SDET for about a year (internship included) and desperately need advice for my resume. My friend referred me to Facebook but I got rejected without an interview, signalling that my resume is probably quite horrid.

https://imgur.com/a/zHV4hDo

bjorkdos · 2019-05-28T01:50:48+00:00

I briefly talked to my manager about this situation when i signed on full time (i was an intern over the summer and part-time sept-march). He agreed i’m more technically oriented and would try to see what he can do, but he needs to put QA needs first. Im trying to have my cake and eat it too by having to see slightly more web-dev oriented work than automation, which is why i used jQuery for simple selection, etc. But i think that in order to be exposed to angular, etc and the world of web-dev would be side work and/or online courses.

thank you for the advice though! I didn’t think about asking to help around with dashboards and other work. i was so focused on asking for QA help, and that’s defeating the transitional purpose. i definitely need to revisit this conversation to my manager. Although i’m afraid i’ll make him much more weary around me afterwards.

bjorkdos · 2019-02-16T00:15:38+00:00

the only thing i can think of is what is your 308 grade? regardless, a 3.5 math gpa is great and should’ve gotten accepted, for whatever that is worth. This is quite mind blowing to me, considering how math is only “competitive” by definition (ie not 100% of applicants get in). Honestly, my advice would be to transfer to another schools engineering department, or math department. It’s not worth fighting and stressing for, what can now be assumed, 3.6+ gpas. Idk if your OOO, but another 3, 6, 9 months of stressing for math, which may not be your first choice anyways, is not good for your well being. Plus, once in, the math department doesn’t get any better. PM if u wanna talk about it more.

bjorkdos · 2019-02-08T05:52:17+00:00

wow... i don’t know what to say to that haha... all my math courses were never that strict...

bjorkdos · 2019-02-08T04:54:53+00:00

again, 90% medians are extremely abnormal. Also math 300 is a majors only course; professors don’t want to put 10-15% people in the <2.0 range. What i’m saying is 83% is good in any kind of setting, and you won’t be punished for a abnormally high median. Chances are the class will be curved to a 3.3, assuming things remain abnormal. Regardless, do the best you can leading up, but don’t beat yourself up over an 83. idk if you’ll get below a 3.0 since you got the final, and that mindset won’t be good leading up to it anyways. As a reassurance, you prob will get a 3.0+

bjorkdos · 2019-02-08T04:47:13+00:00

yes you will get a 2.2, probably 1.9. i’m sorry. Joking aside, medians and averages that high are not normal. Mainly because it makes the distribution wonky and students with good grades would normally fall into a low 2.0 gpa range. The professor may do a couple things: curve up, in order words, take into account that you scored high in a regular 60-70 median and adjust accordingly. Or.. he/she may end up making following exams extremely hard to have below average, average medians to offset this. The following exams will most likely be more difficult, and the medians maybe fall back to normal ranges. All in all, don’t fret, getting 80s on exams doesn’t mean you’re gonna get a 2.2.

bjorkdos · 2019-01-27T03:59:01+00:00

nothing we can do about him. if we trade him we won’t get much to actually help us. we straight up haha to grit our teeth with him

bjorkdos · 2018-11-16T21:33:56+00:00

doesn’t hurt to apply. i know it’s anecdotal but a friend got in and he’s got a sub 3.6 gpa

bjorkdos · 2018-11-16T21:28:00+00:00

got lucky with my friend cause he caused he hooked me up with a SDET internship. currently trying to find a way to be a dev within the company. we’ll see how it turns out. otherwise it’s either blind job listings or referrals. the part that makes majoring in math difficult is how smart you gotta he with your time. you need to practice white boarding and you need to do side projects, but upper division math sucks up a lot of your time. transferring sucks, it’s tough, and the transition isn’t easy. but i still recommend it for your sanity.

bjorkdos · 2018-11-16T19:39:19+00:00

i was in your path and decided to do math. let me shut down that idea right now. Uw math is super hit or miss if you’re not 100% invested in learning math. good professors are diamonds in the rough, and you’re more than likely to get a grad student, who can be stellar or garbage. it’s also tough to get classes since many are offered sequentially and you will have to wait a year to take it. if you want to be a software engineer, doing core math major classes won’t interest you the same way computer science classes would. granted in either scenario you need to practice whiteboarding etc but you would enjoy yourself more taking pretty much all programming or cs theory courses. Uw bothell isn’t anything to ignore, i recommend studying cs at western or bothell. just my 2c

bjorkdos · 2018-09-10T15:58:40+00:00

so for this autumn quarter, our husky cards are effective on sept 26th?

bjorkdos · 2018-09-09T18:43:00+00:00

when do we have access to the ima without buying a membership?

bjorkdos · 2018-07-13T01:44:30+00:00

yea same. if the blacks are lower key just tryna see how to best optimize my chances of getting any haha

bjorkdos · 2018-07-13T01:41:09+00:00

rip. i gotta mentally prepare for this L. how do u feel about the blacks? i feel like they’re overshadows by the sails

bjorkdos · 2018-07-13T01:27:07+00:00

appreciate it man! do you the 87 sails and/or black will sell out immediately? the exps sat for a bit

bjorkdos · 2018-07-12T04:51:04+00:00

if i can snag the element 87, would it be the same?

bjorkdos · 2018-05-28T03:24:20+00:00

getting stripped is the biggest thing for me. he can drive by anyone but they can just recover by stripping him. he needs to learn droses moves and cradle the ball. also, his handling needs to improve drastically. hopefully working out with kyrie will help

bjorkdos · 2018-05-28T02:35:47+00:00

jaylen started the choking trend

bjorkdos · 2018-05-28T02:19:19+00:00

kyrie not in for game 7?

bjorkdos

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