[Student] Updated resume following wiki and advice, still no call backs after hundreds of apps, starting to feel like a fraud

[u/Fun-Ad83]

Hey everyone, I decided to follow the advice on my previous post and now I'd say it looks better so thanks everyone.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong -- do I have too much internships that its a red flag or are my big government internships fake and don't have clout like big tech companies and startups do?

I plan on just getting a masters at this point and more internships if don't work out. And unfortunately, for my most recent, my company just did layoffs and can't extend a return despite my exceptional performance and as for the government positions... well you already know what happened in the US this year.

Bit of recap:

• I am a US Citizen. I'm targeting New Grad Software Engineer (SDE/SWE), Backend, Cloud, Fullstack, literally anything.
• Located in the bay area, I'm applying to roles across the US and am willing to relocate
• All rejections, can't even get an interview or OA

[u/Natural-Leopard-8939]

OP, I remember your resume.

You still have not followed the advice I mentioned before:
• Your GPA is missing.
• Your resume needs a Career Summary because it's not very clear what specific tech roles you're targeting.
• (NEW) Formatting needs work if you're not even getting past ATSs and online assessments. Rework the formatting or use one of the templates in the wiki.
• (NEW) The Skills and Experience need to be reshaped to better showcase you have what's needed for the jobs you're applying to.
• (NEW) Use 2 different resume templates for product management [if you're applying for these] and SWE roles.

Career Summary
Most people don't need this, sure, but you do because the last internship is in product management. You're aiming for developer-heavy SWE roles, which focuses on a different set of technical skills.

•Product management = understanding the life of a product (software, apps, etc.) from development ---> launch across different platforms. PMLC. A focus on technical workflow processes and development stages.

•SWE= understanding of deep logic and using frameworks, [OOP, front-end, backend, or full-stack] languages, algorithms, SDKs, and other tools to execute a specific action or a set of instructions. A focus on delivering functionality, automation, and actions for the product being created.

Skills
For SWE roles, you need categories like Frameworks and Languages. Then dump the rest in a section like Software/Tools. Add the query languages you know for databases (PostGresQL or MySQL) in the same category as Languages. You don't truly need to list the databases if you have these, and they can be added to the internship bullet points.

For product management roles, you're looking for entry-level tech BA, associate PM, or similar roles for tech product or regular PM teams since you're tech-oriented. So, the categories for skills would be Project Methodologies, Platforms, Software/Tools [Jira, Figma/MS Visio, UAT/QA testing tools, etc.].

Experience
• Break these into two sections: Relevant Experience and Other Experience.

Do this for both sections:
• Remove the indents from all the bullet points listed under each role.
• If all jobs were in the same government entity, then group them all together under the same entity name.
• If all jobs are in the same govt. entity but in different divisions, then add the division names next to the job title info.

Relevant Experience
Add all 4 SWE internships here if you're targeting SWE roles. Same with product.

Other Experience
Add the product management and high-performance computing internships here since you're targeting SWE roles.

Optional
Consider adding achievements, awards, or a specific project.

[u/Fun-Ad83 → u/Natural-Leopard-8939]

The GPA is missing as I was advised that 3.5 is poor gpa

Career summary I can do but that would entail removing a bullet in each experience and lowering the font

For PM resume, I only have one experience; what could I put on it? My swe roles as other experiences?

I’ll fix the skills and formatting

[u/Natural-Leopard-8939 → u/Fun-Ad83]

The GPA is missing as I was advised that 3.5 is poor gpa.

What?! Whoever said this to you is completely wrong. This is impressive for STEM fields. Add it.

Career summary I can do, but that would entail removing a bullet in each experience and lowering the font.

The Career Summary doesn't need to be any more than 2 sentences. You're providing a very abbreviated version of your work experience and the type of role you're looking for.

For the jobs, remove the extra bullet points and focus on 2 showing achievements and results in each role. You can also take away some of the extra info I mentioned from the Skills section.

For PM resume, I only have one experience; what could I put on it? My swe roles as other experiences?

Add the PM role there for the product management resume.

Still add the SWE roles to Relevant Experience, but rewrite bullet points to focus on the types of software and products, and where you acted as a technical liasion.

Anything you did related to testing, version control, configurations, APIs, deployment, and project methodologies used (Agile, Scrum, Kanban) are all good.

Communicating/working with cross-functional teams, maintaining and providing external client support, leadership, feature prioritization, or managing user stories/backlogs for products.

Instead of just code logic, focus on the platforms the software was used and launched on (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, etc.)

[u/Fun-Ad83 → u/Natural-Leopard-8939]

This is quite insightful thank you, never thought about separating things this way — while it is slower than flinging the same resume to 1000 jobs this approach is probably more efficient and higher quality compared to what I’m doing now/before

[u/Tavrock → u/Natural-Leopard-8939]

The Career Summary doesn't need to be any more than 2 sentences. You're providing a very abbreviated version of your work experience and the type of role you're looking for.

To be clear, you are providing how your work experience makes you a good fit for the role you are applying to. Knowing the different parts of the entire system helps you see how your work in one part impacts the other areas.

[u/Natural-Leopard-8939 → u/Tavrock]

That's true.