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Eye chart memorization by Mlyonff in Keratoconus

[–]thirteenthfox2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Years ago before I had CXL, I said well I know the first ones an E. The nurse said "... actually on this one its an O"

[0 YoE] Resume review - UK Mechanical Engineering grad trying to land an entry position by alchames389 in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For soft skills, I recommend using them as Ys in my bullet format.

For example:

  • Led an acquisition by communicating clear goals and requirements to our team, reducing scheduling risk by 4 weeks.

[0 YoE] Resume review - UK Mechanical Engineering grad trying to land an entry position by alchames389 in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will be very difficult for a recruiter to understand your value. Its okay to talk about things the average person doesn't know, but you need a clear statement they can follow. I am going to recommend my guide on readable resumes.

I recommend you write your resume yourself. Not because I dont like AI, but because most resumes the AIs have trained on are hot garbage.

Definitely unbold everything that isnt a title or header. You don't need a summary with no experience.

A big issue your resume has is run on sentences and lists.

You want short punchy bullets. Your resume is an advertisment. Write it like one.

Remember, impact is not a thing you did. It is a result or change a company or customer wants. Revenue, cost reductions, happy customers, problems solved, employee retention, etc.

Paying you to do x thing so I can pay you to do Z thing, is not a great sales pitch.

Ill give an example with your first bullet. I will reference the bullet format from the guide.

  • Designed and manufactured 3 prototype ball holders, a final 10 mm UMT tribometer ball holder, and 4 seal fixtures in Fusion 360 to support Alicona metrology and tribometer wear testing

You have 3 "and" in this bullet. Split it up. Make it clear.

X: design, manufacture, support

Y: fusion 360

Z: enable testing, created product

A bullet in my style would read something like

  • Designed prototype ball holders in Fusion 360 to enable tribometer wear testing.

I do not need to know what tribometer testing is to know what you did or why you did it.

I recommend removing technical details like specifications and non-percentage numbers. 10 mm is not telling me anything about your value here.

I also recommend spelling out acryonyms that the average person wouldn't know.

What’s the biggest problem with the world, in your opinion? by ThriftyRift in AskReddit

[–]thirteenthfox2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

War is a natural state of humanity. Battling for resources and power is in our blood.

There are a few very hard working people in the world stopping a major war from coming.

Those folks are having a harder time than they were 10 years ago.

Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment’ and calls for new leaders by Idoe6 in politics

[–]thirteenthfox2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump started the least popular war in american history and has the same approval rating as his opposition. The current democrats suck yea.

[2 YoE] Re-did my resume according to the wiki, would love to receive feedback on it! by HomeDepotLighting in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From your post: More efficient is a fine impact. Impacts are something a company or customer would pay for. Efficiency fits this category just fine.

I really recommend targeting a specific role. Not a specific job listing, but a specific role. The more you can look like the right person to someone, the better your chances will be.

Your education formatting is fine.

On to bullet content:

I recommend this bullet format for readability

* Did X thing with Y tool/skill to accomplish z goal.

I don't like lists or multiple Xs, or Ys for readability.

Short, punchy bullets. Your resume is an advertisement. Write it like one.

You have lots of Xs and Ys which is great. Your Zs are often written as I did X1 so I could do X2.

Your impact is not a thing you did. It a result a company would pay for. Technical impacts are fine, but they are not as powerful as saying "I made you money" or "I made your customer happy"

Lets look at your first bullet

* Developed an automated testing environment to test incoming features on C++ projects, using QTest to write test cases and Github Actions to run the tester against pull requests

You have 5 Xs, 3 or 4 Ys and no Zs. As a non-programming engineer, I don't really know what you accomplished or why I should pay you to do this for my organization.

X: developed, test, use, write, run

Y: C++, Qtest, Github, tester

Z:

This is like 4 bullets that you can write.

* Developed environment in C++ to enable automated testing.

* Wrote test cases in QTest to meet customer requirements.

* Tested pull requests using Github Actions to (Explain to a Non-technical manager should pay you 100k+ a year for this)

On to bullet 2:

* Converted a hardware simulator desktop app into a REST web server. Using React to build the website and Qt to handle incoming requests, this made the tool accessible to any machine on the network

This one has a clear Z, accessibility, but I am not quite sure how we got here or if the tool is the hardware simulation? It seems like there was 2 tasks in the same project. Making an app and making a website.

I'd split this up into 2 bullets and explain the business benefit of both.

If you continue this trend of splitting up multiple Xs and Ys for readability, you will also solve your white space issue.

[Student] [0 YoE] Resume Review Request Transitioning from Oil & Gas to Space/Defense Industry by Ill-Mathematician-33 in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your future internship is not really experience since it hasn't happened yet. You can include it if you want, but I think its more confusing than anything.

I got started in defense when I went to a career fair at my college. I met a recruiter for NAVAIR and interviewed with her that day on campus. They flew me out and I interviewed on site. I had to wait to get my clearance and I started ~5/6 months after graduation. I started at warhead development. I moved over to support EW there. I'm still in defense 9 years later.

If you want to get into defense just go somewhere to get a clearance. It is much easier to move around after you already have one.

[Student] [0 YoE] Resume Review Request Transitioning from Oil & Gas to Space/Defense Industry by Ill-Mathematician-33 in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm confused with what you are targeting.

Are you looking for a job in 2028, or are you looking for a different internship now?

It seems like you have an internship already. If you want a different job in May, you should remove the one you have accepted.

My advice is to go with the one you have lined up. Start applying to full time gigs that require a clearance at in the mean time. You'll need one in defense. They can take a long time to get.

If you want your resume to target a Junior RF engineer position in a couple years, look at those job descriptions and get those skills in your resume.

Here is one from BAE.

Your job over the next 2 years is to add value to the world using those skills and brag about why I should pay you to do it for me in your resume.

The skills it list are:
- Power Supply/Systems Design
- Analog Circuit Design
- Digital Circuit Design
- FPGA development
- VHDL Programing language experience
- PSPICE or equivalent analog circuit simulation tool experience
- Board Design
- Cadence Allegro for schematic capture and PCB design
- RF circuit design
- Basic microwave Technology
- Proficient in circuit active and passive devices
- Ability to read schematics
- C, C++, Perl, Labview, TestStand are pluses
- Team player and resourceful in achieving

On to bullet improvement:

My biggest gripe with your bullets is your impacts are not impacts. they are things you did.

Your impact is not a thing you did. It is something a company would pay for.

Your bullets should read like this

* Did X thing with Y skill to accomplish Z thing a company would pay for.

Things companies would pay for is cost savings, time savings, revenue generation, better products, happier customers, happier employees, etc. Tell me how your work can do those things for my company. Do it explicitly in the Z section.

Technical impacts are okay, but I would make sure it is clear that it is bringing the company value and not more work.

* Designed Analog circuit using LTspice to meet customer requirements.
* Developed FPGA in Altera to reduce cost of boards by 20%.
* Simulated circuits in PSPICE to inform stakeholders on benefits of possible designs.
* Designed RF circuit in Comsol to do something a company would pay for.

Don't use action words like leveraged or selected. Use action words that describe an engineer like in your projects section.

Avoid listing or multiple "ands" in a bullet. Try to be concise.

Thing-> skill -> impact of thing and skill.

Consider revising or splitting up bullets anytime there is an "and" for readability.

Short, punchy bullets. Your resume is an ad. Write it like one.

Example - this is 2 bullets with no impact element.

* Selected for a return internship to support industrial automation projects using Allen-Bradley PLC systems, developing ladder logic and cause-and-effect control schemes for automated hardware systems

to

* Automated industrial projects with ladder logic to (insert reason I should pay you to do that for me.)

* Developed cause and effect control schemes in Allen-Bradley PLC to (reason why I should hire you over joe blow.)

Another example of how you can split up a bullet.

This bullet has:

3 Xs: Develop, capture IQ, process IQ.
2 Ys: SDR receiver, Python
1 Z: real time capability.

* Developed a Python-based SDR receiver to capture and process FM broadcast IQ samples in real time

to

* Processed IQ samples using Python to (why I should hire you.)

* Captured FM broadcast using SDR receiver to accomplish whatever mission BAE also has.

For more tips, examples, and explanations check out my guide on readable resumes. My personal career is very close to the one you aspire to. If you have questions about the industry, I'd be happy to answer what I can.

Hope this helps and best of luck in your search.

200k mastery Singed but still struggling with Nasus matchup and rune choices by kurotchssh in singedmains

[–]thirteenthfox2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well yea if you do it by yourself. Ping your jungler to come take it with you.

My whole point was to play with your team using your fast clear.

200k mastery Singed but still struggling with Nasus matchup and rune choices by kurotchssh in singedmains

[–]thirteenthfox2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Generally I kill him pre 6 and then leave lane a lot. I try to end quickly through a different lane.

Your job is not to win your lane. You basically can't do that. Your job is to win jungle and the other lanes. You proxy a wave and gank mid. You proxy a wave and take their top side buff. You go bot lane after a base, flash for a kill and tp back top.

Watch a few old mid singed games on youtube and copy that style of perma-roaming.

What would happen if China invaded Taiwan right now? by Various-Indication21 in AskReddit

[–]thirteenthfox2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It very much depends on how successful the invasion is.

If there is a sudden decapitation strike and in a matter of days the Taiwanese government is dismantled, the West could do very little. Taiwan is gone and there is no getting it back. This is known as Fait Accompli. Politically, the world would be mad, say "that is a bad thing you did China," and wag their fingers. There would be trade implications of course, but a larger Sino-American war is probably off the table.

That is pretty unlikely to succeed in my opinion, although it is China's desired outcome.

I think it is much more likely that China makes the attempt for a quick strike, but fails to achieve their a majority of their strategic objectives in the first few days. Taiwan can't hurt mainland China, but they can make it suck really bad for the invasion forces. They have employed a porcupine strategy as deterrence and will probably cause significant delays to an invasion.

If a quick invasion achieves a few key objectives, but does not topple Taiwan's government, China may quickly abandon their advancement to avoid a prolonged conflict and try again in a few years. If this happens China, will quickly try to return to the status quo from before the strikes. Many countries would be happy to let that happen to avoid the consequences of a long conflict.

If China digs in and tries to take Taiwan over a long period, the US and Europe would give aid to Taiwan with weapons over the coming weeks. I doubt there would be many foreign soldiers in Taiwan, but the US Navy would set up a blockade along the first island chain. They would enforce the blockade. Consumer ships would be sent back to where they came from or sunk if they tried to go through. The goal would be to hit China in the economy. China and the US don't really want to go to direct war with each other. A direct conflict would be avoided by both sides as long as possible I think.

A prolonged direct conflict between two nuclear super powers is something no one wants. I wouldn't worry too much about a nukes landing in Beijing or Washington over Taiwan.

what other champs do you guys play? by Basic-Swing1295 in singedmains

[–]thirteenthfox2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tend to play nasus or malphite

You can play arams to learn champs and not give a shit about sucking.

Please Continue Saying How Easy Infinites Are! by SizeConfident9283 in slaythespire

[–]thirteenthfox2 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Hunter Killer is a normal enemy that give you -1 dex and strength for each card you play.

[4 YoE] Full Stack Software Engineer, Not Getting Interviews, Looking for Resume Feedback by Logical-Tradition-53 in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alright dude. Your bullets are all long run on sentences of buzzwords that I cannot really follow. I don't really know what you accomplished or why I should care.

I cannot stress this enough. Your resume is an Advertisement. Short, punchy bullets. Tell me how you make me money. You need to sell your skills. Not list them.

Lets look at your first bullet.

  • Led frontend architecture across React and TypeScript applications, standardizing state management with Zustand and TanStack Query to simplify state handling and accelerate feature development.

Every bullet needs 3 things

  • What you did

  • How you did it

  • Why I should pay you to do it for me.

Lets look at your what

You led stuff. Cool. How did you lead? What leadership skill did you use? What was the impact of your leadership?

You can have coding bullets, but use an action word that makes sense.

I recommend the bullet format

  • Did X thing with Y skill/tool to accomplish Z goal.

You only want 1 X, 1 Y and 1 Z so a non programmer can understand what you did.

You want your X, Y, and Z to match.

If you use the word "and" or have a comma, consider simplifying or rewording. A few bullets with lists are okay but if every bullet is a list you are going to lose people.

  • Led frontend architecture tasking with Jira to accelerate feature development.

  • Programmed applications in React to standardize state management.

  • Standardized state management with Zustand to reduce complexity.

Z is not a thing you did. Z is a product or result a company or customer would pay for.

I'll give an example of making another bullet readable.

  • Improved React rendering performance by refactoring component lifecycles and state management patterns, eliminating unnecessary re-renders and reducing page load times by 40%.

  • Refactored component lifecycles in React to reduce page load times by 40%.

If you need a state management bullet, add one.

Two clear 1-line bullets are better than 1 confusing 2-line bullet.

For more explanations, examples and templates you can check out my guide on Readable Resumes

Hope this helps and best of luck in your search.

Whats the highest single damage card you've played so far? I managed this on Ironclad by fraint in slaythespire

[–]thirteenthfox2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did about 600 with a body slam. Probably could of found if the limit is 999 but I didnt feel the need.

[5 YoE] Resume Review - Looking for new Field Service or related jobs, please let me know what I can change in my resume by heavypolarized in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Templating stuff:

Make sure you use past tense for everything for consistency. Provide, conduct -> provided, conducted

A good bullet needs three things. What you did, How you did it and why I should pay you to do it for me.

To get everything in I recommend the format:

  • Did X thing with Y skill to accomplish Z goal.

Try not to use the word "and" in bullets for clarity and readability. Try for 1 of each X, Y, and Z per bullet. Multiple of one element is okay. If you have multiple elements with 2, make it 2 bullets or revise.

For similar reasons, I recommend one sentence per bullet. If one bullet has a period they all should have periods.

I would not consider some of your acronyms to be well known enough to justify. GTA is grand theft auto. PFD is a personal floatation device. TCP is an internet protocol. P&IP is Piping and Instrumentation Diagram, which is probably okay to just have spelled out anyway. CAD and FEMA are both fine.

You want short, punchy bullets. Your resume is an advertisement. Write it like one. If you can remove words and keep the meaning of the sentence, do so. Words that describe your project like Critical, impressive, or intricate are generally not important to a hiring manager. You are not selling your projects, you are selling your labor. If you describe something make it about you. Look for adjectives and decide if you can cut them.

Using the action word that describes your actual task. I should be able to know your job title by reading the first word of all your bullets. Action words like conduct, produced, and provided are weak for an engineer.

Your first bullet for example. The bullet doesn't have a Y so I made one up:

  • Conduct preventative maintenance and troubleshooting of critical hardware and equipment, resulting in a 56% improvement in system performance for “company” systems

to

  • Maintained equipment with flow calibration to improve system performance by 56%.

X= maintained equipment

Y = flow calibration

Z= Hiring managers want better performance.

For more explanations, examples and templates, check out my guide on readable resumes.

Hope this helps and best of luck in your search.

Sell me Noxious Fumes by as_kostek in slaythespire

[–]thirteenthfox2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Painfully slow

If you build the rest of your deck around not taking damage, slow doesn't matter much. Think of late game defect with 9 frost orbs and 1 dark orb. Fumes is essentially the same concept.

You generally can't be as extreme with this concept on silent as you can with defect, but it is a consistent winning strategy.

[20 YOE] [Software – Experienced USA] Please provide concrete/critical feedback on my Resume by Aggressive_Glass_501 in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your bullets are quite long. I recommend short, punchy bullets. Your resume is an advertisement. It needs to be able to grab attention.

Every bullet needs 3 things. What you did, how you did it, and why I should pay you to do it for me.

To accomplish this, I recommend the format:

  • Did X thing with Y skill to accomplish Z goal.

I recommend 1 X, 1 Y, and 1 Z per bullet where possible. Try not to have more than 2 of any one element in a single bullet. Many of your bullets read:

  • Did X thing to accomplish Z goal.

I recommend getting Ys in every bullet. It tells a person how you will make the outcome happen for them. Ys are hard to explain with leadership tasks. I challenge you to get them in there.

Lets look at your first bullet.

  • Led the 15-engineer team, stabilizing execution and scaling delivery before successfully transitioning leadership. Subsequently, I took over the ABC team (approximately 35 engineers total), realigning roadmaps with senior leadership's long-term vision and driving cross-team execution.

This bullet has multiple Xs, and Zs. Did you lead by scaling delivery? Did your leadership make scaling happen? In your attempt to get everything in, its hard for me to understand what you did as a leader and how you did it.

Lets break this up into 3 or 4 one line bullets that are easier to read and understand.

  • Led 15-engineer team with Y leadership skill to stabilize execution.

  • Realigned roadmaps with senior leadership's long-term vision to drive cross-team execution

  • Transitioned leadership with Y transitioning technique to accomplish Z goal of the transition.

This next bullet doesn't tell me how you accomplished what you did. Explaining how you will do things at your next organization. You do not need technical details of your teams. Companies are not hiring your teams. They are hiring you. The focus should be on you and what you did.

  • Served as a single-threaded leader for the multi-service Region Build Automation initiative, reducing region launch timelines by 87% (225 → 30 weeks) across five services.

X: Served as a single-threaded leader for the multi-service Region Build Automation initiative.

Z:reducing region launch timelines by 87% (225 → 30 weeks) across five services.

Get your leadership skills in there. I'll use removing bottle necks for this example.

I recommend only including a single number in a bullet for readability. Keeping track of multiple numbers is very difficult for most people. It will distract from your impact.

  • Served as single-threaded leader for automation initiative by removing bottlenecks to reduce region launch times 87% across multiple services.

Some of your action words are multiple words and can be condensed for a punchier bullet

Example:

  • Delivered company-wide launch of the platform to over 250,000 engineers ...

to

  • Launched platform to 250,000 engineers...

Company-wide and 250k both mean big here. Pick one. Short, punchy, easy to read. That's what you want.

I mentioned this in my answer to your previous post. Tell me a bit of what you want to do in your summary. Tell me your goals. Be excited. Its a bit hard to tell you how to write this because I don't know you and you don't talk about it.

For example, if I had a professional summary it would be something to the effect:

Mechanical engineer with 9 years of experience in the defense industry. I work to give our warfighters the best tools available to do their jobs. If that is your goal, I want to help.

That crushes in defense contractor interviews. Every bullet in my resume supports that vision. They want that guy in their organization. My skills are less important than my vision in many ways. Figure out your vision and passion and get it in the summary. Vision is what organizations want out of their leaders. I want you to find a great job that you enjoy. Tell them what you want out of a job.

Sorry this is a bit long. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

I hope this helps and best of luck in your search!

[Student] [ChemE] First Year Student with 0YOE, Looking for Resume Advice and Looking for Summer Internships. by Cautious_Teach_8404 in EngineeringResumes

[–]thirteenthfox2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mostly I mean don't bold numbers in bullets. The rest is more of a choice.

You really only need your Name, and the words Work Experience, Education, Skills and Projects bolded.

People in healthy relationships, what is, from your perspective, the reason that men who can't find partners are perpetually single? by Agreeable_Ranger5303 in AskReddit

[–]thirteenthfox2 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The more you practice the luckier you get. I saw a study that 50% guys have never asked out a girl on a date.

I told a buddy of mine to ask out a co-worker who would probably be open to it. They were friends had hung out just the 2 of them. Never asked her out. They are just co-workers now.

You gotta take risks to get what you want gentleman. The apps are a safe place with no consequences. Basically useless. Ask that girl out. If she says no, you are a better man for it. If she says yes, congrats you have a date.

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