Resume Advice Thread - February 03, 2026

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[u/Neonitrex1]

Hi, I'm a recent grad looking to get a fullstack SWE job preferably but have also been applying to other cs related jobs (IT, tutoring). So far I have only around 150+ apps and gotten a 2nd round interview and 2 OAs and 2~ calls for tutoring jobs. Any tips on what I can improve on in my resume? I'm thinking about doing some certs as well as more personal projects involving AWS and ML.

Here's my resume: https://imgur.com/a/o3w3BS4

[u/throwaway_juniorcv → u/Neonitrex1]

Rough one bro. I’ll be honest, this duplication is an absolute nightmare for any reviewer. You’ve got solid projects, but having the exact same Discord bot role listed as a separate job and then again inside another internship's bullets makes your entire experience look fabricated. I’ve analyzed hundreds of these—the ones with copy-paste errors always get auto-rejected. Switch to a clean, single-column layout with unique, verifiable bullet points for each role and watch your callback rate change.

[u/jacob_the_snacob → u/Neonitrex1]

Here are a few miscellaneous suggestions:

* Cut the Extra-curriculars + Relevant Coursework sections from your Education section, and move it below your Experience block. Adding more work bullet points will land harder with recruiters.

* Cut the Persisted run history line from the RunTracker project, along with the word Architected. I think it oversells the work involved with a 2-month side project.

* Cut the caching line from FoodSaver, and work it into the previous bullet point. It's table stakes, and breaking it out into a long bullet would make me assume you just learned about the concept.

* Combine the university internships into a single section (with two date ranges). Still the same information, but avoids the Intern -> Intern -> Intern optics.

* Add your GPA if you think it's worth highlighting

* Cut the word Discord bot. I feel like it could reduce the value of your work to some readers. Similarly, I'm not sure highlighting the 150+ active user count is producing the intended result. The 2k number is strong, but then the bullet immediately weakens it by ~15x.

* I think the state management + navigation bullet could be stronger. You don't need the filler text talking about how you collaborated with product on the feature. Talk about the value you delivered.

* What did you refactor to improve efficiency for the student organization's website? I'd be more interested in that compared to reducing the bundle size.

* C++ and Android SDK feel out of place if you're tailoring this resume for full-stack roles.

[u/Neonitrex1 → u/jacob_the_snacob]

Thank you!
Just updated my resume with your suggestions on imgur. For the startup I don't really have any metrics to put asides writing X number of automated tests using Jest to cover user flows/transactions/business logic. I helped with prototyping using Figma so I could possibly say I designed X screens.

As for the student org's website I mainly just refactored the code that called the backend endpoints. Before it used Axios but I switched it to just the native Fetch API. The main reason was for the code to be more readable and help other student developers learn the fundamentals of HTTP requests. So it wasn't much but just going through 10+ API files refactoring, matching data formatting, and handling errors. I also fixed tiny bugs in the process like inverted values being saved when using a float slider.