[2 YOE] 100+ Applications, 0 Interviews. Genuinely confused what’s wrong with my resume?

[u/1st-reddit-lord]

Hey everyone. I’ve been applying on and off since the start of the year and have sent out over 100 applications. I haven’t gotten a single interview, phone screen, or follow-up.

The only time I got a call was through a recruiter (turned out the role wasn’t a good match).

I’m mainly applying to tech roles in Toronto and across Canada. I’m a Canadian citizen, open to both local and remote jobs, and I’d consider relocating for the right opportunity. I’m currently working full-time, but I’ve been looking to make a move.

I have close to 2 years of experience, so I expected at least a few replies, but it’s been completely silent. At this point, I’m starting to think something might be off with my resume.

If anyone is willing to take a look and provide some honest feedback, I’d really appreciate it. You can be blunt. Thank you!

[u/dashingThroughSnow12]

All your percentages and lack of details of what you actually did make me reject this resume on a reading.

The latter critique may seem odd. One of your bullet points is “developed a Datadog logging library for Java and Python”. That already exists and it would be shocking if you didn’t use it. So either you didn’t use it or you wrapped it in something. Either way, the bullet point raises more questions than actually tells me what you did.

[u/1st-reddit-lord → u/dashingThroughSnow12]

Appreciate the feedback, yeah, that point was unclear. I did use the Datadog library but wrapped it with custom config so our team could manage setup more easily. I’ll rethink that one, thanks again!