u/EducationalMemory639

I joined my current company right after I graduated. I worked there for a year. Last year I was in a car accident and took a year off work for recovery. I was still employed the whole time, just not working since I was on medical leave. After I recovered, I worked for another year and that's where I am now.

My resume only has 2 years' worth of work experience and accomplishments on it. But I've been "employed" for 3 years and that's what will show up on a background check. If I say that I have 3 yoe, it makes me look bad since I haven't done enough for someone with 3 yoe. If I say that I have 2 yoe, it's not the whole truth since I've been employed for 3 years.

Should I:

• Say that I've been employed for 3 years and just come across as someone who didn't do very much
• Say that I've been employed for 2 years, and move all of my other dates up by one year, like graduation and prior internships, so there isn't an unexplained 1 year gap
• Put a weird 1 year gap on my resume, e.g. "Employed from 2023-2024, 2025-present"

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v5.2.3 on Windows 11

Third bullet point under my first full time job:

>Designed a configuration-driven framework for defining AWS SWF hardware repair workflows, replacing hardcoded Kotlin logic and reducing rollout time for new flows from 2 weeks to 1 day

To give context, our service orchestrates repairs for servers in a cloud fleet which have hardware or software issues. Different repair paths are needed depending on the server and failure type, so there's lots of branching logic. All of this branching logic was messily hardcoded in Kotlin as AWS SWF workflows.

My project was creating a framework that lets us specify a repair pattern in a JSON config, and then the framework would match JSON keys to Kotlin code, and produce an AWS SWF workflow. Defining repair patterns in JSON is ultimately much cleaner than doing it all over the place in Kotlin.

How do I reword this?

First bullet point:

>Enhanced a platform for asynchronously orchestrating hardware repairs of cloud servers with Java & MySQL, driving remediation of 900K servers with critical hardware issues over 6 months

This was a service that my team did not build from scratch, but we took ownership of, so we added some things. I was not working on it alone. The next bullet point ("Implemented an AWS Lambda workflow to identify servers...") was a part of this service, but it's a feature that I worked on alone.

What's a better word than "enhanced"? A word that's active but doesn't imply I did it single handedly

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Third bullet point under my first full time job:

>Designed a configuration-driven framework for defining AWS SWF hardware repair workflows, replacing hardcoded Kotlin logic and reducing rollout time for new flows from 2 weeks to 1 day

To give context, our service orchestrates repairs for servers in a cloud fleet which have hardware or software issues. Different repair paths are needed depending on the server and failure type, so there's lots of branching logic. All of this branching logic was messily hardcoded in Kotlin as AWS SWF workflows.

My project was creating a framework that lets us specify a repair pattern in a JSON config, and then the framework would match JSON keys to Kotlin code, and produce an AWS SWF workflow. Defining repair patterns in JSON is ultimately much cleaner than doing it all over the place in Kotlin.

How do I reword this?

First bullet point:

>Enhanced a platform for asynchronously orchestrating hardware repairs of cloud servers with Java & MySQL, driving remediation of 900K servers with critical hardware issues over 6 months

This was a service that my team did not build from scratch, but we took ownership of, so we added some things. I was not working on it alone. The next bullet point ("Implemented an AWS Lambda workflow to identify servers...") was a part of this service, but it's a feature that I worked on alone.

What's a better word than "enhanced"? A word that's active but doesn't imply I did it single handedly

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I have asthma and very sensitive lungs. Asking them to turn the machine off wouldn't be enough because the fumes would still be there

I live near Queen Anne/SLU and can't travel very far

Maybe there are medical massage places that don't require a referral/diagnosis? As opposed to the holistic ones with the incense. I have had chronic muscle tightness in my back that's extremely painful sometimes, I would go to a physical therapist if it weren't so sporadic.

I listed an item with an auction that started the next day. A few days later I tried revising the listing to lower the price (item has no bids). The option for "schedule your listing" is selected but grayed out, so I can't change it, it has to be a scheduled listing.

The default selected date is the original start day (yesterday). I changed it to another date and time in the future and hit Revise Listing, which fails because "The scheduled time occurs in the past. Please select a new time."

I tried this with multiple new start dates in the future and they all failed, so it looks like a website issue. Does anyone know a workaround?

After I graduated I worked at my job for 1 year, then had to take a 1 year medical leave where I was not working. After my recovery and return to work, I worked another year.

I want to apply for roles at other companies. How do I represent this 1 year gap in my work experience? Technically I've been employed for 3 years, but I've only had 2 years of actual work experience and accomplishments. I think my accomplishments in this position are pretty good for a new grad with 2 yoe, but a bit lacking for a new grad with 3 yoe.

I could also fudge the timelines and say that I've only been employed for two years. This doesn't misrepresent the most important thing which is my concrete work experience. But it would mean pushing every other date forward by 1 year, including graduation and all of my prior internships etc

I have 3 years of SWE experience in big tech, applying for my second job after graduation. Since I've only had one full time job I added a lot of bullet points for that role, my internships and MEng project are just to fill space. My full time role is carrying me here.

Are the bullets for my full time role written well? Do they sell impact and technical skill?

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I have 3 years of SWE experience in big tech, applying for my second job after graduation. Since I've only had one full time job I added a lot of bullet points for that role, my internships and MEng project are just to fill space. My full time role is carrying me here.

Are the bullets for my full time role written well? Do they sell impact and technical skill?

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I have 3 years of SWE experience in big tech, applying for my second job after graduation. Since I've only had one full time job I added a lot of bullet points for that role, my internships and MEng project are just to fill space. My full time role is carrying me here.

Are the bullets for my full time role written well? Do they sell impact and technical skill?

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I placed an order, buyer messaged me saying that they don't actually have the item and needed me to cancel. I refused to, so they did the cancellation from their end, but put "Buyer requested to cancel" as the reason. I know that they did this so it dings my account instead of theirs for the cancellation.

I reported them through the "report an issue with a seller" form. Because I don't want it to affect some hidden value on my account that I can't see. It's been a few weeks and I haven't heard anything back from Ebay, and the order cancellation reason still says "buyer requested to cancel"

Applying for my second role post-graduation. Aiming for SWE in big tech or an adjacent company. I haven't gotten many outside opinions on my resume so far so I want to get another pair of eyes on it before I start applying. Tia!

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I've been in the same full time role in big tech since I graduated 3 years ago. Looking for a role at another big tech company. My bullets are pretty long but I want to make sure they explain the context of the project properly, while also selling my accomplishments and impact.

Some parts feel like word vomit to me

I sprinkled a few technology names in some of the bullets but I don't know if it feels like information overload to someone who's not familiar with the projects.

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I've been in the same full time role in big tech since I graduated 3 years ago. Looking for a role at another big tech company. My bullets are pretty long but I want to make sure they explain the context of the project properly, while also selling my accomplishments and impact.

I sprinkled a few technology names in some of the bullets but I don't know if it feels like information overload to someone who's not familiar with the projects.

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I have 30 days where I'll technically be employed, will receive pay, but won't be expected to perform any work. This is what HR said. I still have Teams access, and my people are blowing up my phone asking for help or references with projects I was working on. I was the only person working on most of these projects, and the only person who knows what's happening. These are all critical tasks with imminent deadlines, and some of them are direct requests from a customer.

Since I don't have to do any work during this time, I could leave them completely out to dry. Is there any reason why I shouldn't do this, and at the very least send over docs/status updates/instructions on next steps?

The smartass thing would be to ask for consultant pay but I doubt my manager or company will agree to it.

I've been at my first job for 3 years since graduating, large tech company. I'm looking for other software positions at FAANG or big tech.

Not sure if my bullet points explain enough context about what I was working on, or they depend too much on context. I want to make sure the impact and technical value is sold well. It feels like an intern's resume to me right now, not a full time engineer's resume.

I also don't know what to put for the sections below my full time job. I haven't touched those internship bullet points for four years, but a resume with only one thing on it looks awkward

Would appreciate any advice! Tia

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My past few performance reviews hadn't gone well. Each time I was a bit blindsided because I had paid attention to the feedback I got last time and tried to improve on those points. In my weekly 1:1s with my manager, they didn't indicate that they noticed any issues. During the performance reviews, when I asked them for direct advice on how to improve, they would just give me the runaround or get mad.

Looking back I understand what I did wrong in some of the situations they mentioned. But I'm worried that I won't be able to recognize similar situations in the future.

Here are some things that were brought up:

• I identified a gap in our service and designed a project around it, manager signed off on it. After the initial design was laid out, we suddenly got a request from another team to handle edge cases for the project (basically the 10% of use cases that have a similar result as the other 90%, except with significantly different implementations). I switched gears to handle these urgent 10% edge cases. One month before the stakeholders' deadline, this other team got back to us and said that actually they need the project next week, and instead of one unique edge case they need three separate ones. I missed the new deadline by a week. My manager was pissed at me for missing this deadline, and also for delaying work on the non-edge case parts of the project.
• Teammates wouldn't review code, project slipped past deadline
  • Manager gave me a project with a clear user story and deadline. After I presented the initial design, manager told me that the feature should be made generic and configurable so we can apply it anywhere. Except the old project and the new project fundamentally do different things - modularity wasn't the purpose of the original project. Deadline refused to extend deadline.
  • I finished the code changes before the deadline. My manager insisted that I publish all of the changes as one massive pull request - I warned that this would be very difficult to review, they said it was fine. Teammates didn't bother to look at the change or even let me know it was difficult to read.
  • This manager left the team, with them gone I broke the pull request into smaller, more reasonable changes and sent them out one at a time. My team still refused to look at my changes. I was tagging them in Teams, bringing it up during every stand up, DMing them, walking to their desks and asking them in person. They said "Yeah I'll get to it today sorry I've been busy" or straight up ignored my messages
  • We got a new manager who was angry that by this point the project had slipped 2 months past the deadline. I asked them how to get the team to review my code. They said "just ask people", I said that's what I had been doing, and they just got mad and said I needed to ask people for reviews

I don't want to sound too defensive of myself because I know I'm not a good engineer. But on the other hand, some of the things they claimed about me in these performance reviews were straight up lies. These are the two biggest things brought up during performance reviews, there are smaller criticisms as well but I don't want to make this post too long, happy to clarify the others.

So anyway they said that they were getting rid of my due to performance issues (apparently I had been on PIP since March, although nobody told me). I have two months of "employment" (receiving pay while not doing work) until I'm gone for good.

This is my first job out of college and I've been here for nearly 3 years so it's time to move on anyway. I want to make sure that 1. I can find a job somewhere else and don't get held back too much in my life/career, and 2. I don't fall into the same pattern again

I've been at my first job for 3 years since graduating, large tech company. I'm looking for other software positions at FAANG or big tech.

I'm not confident that my bullet points explain enough context about what I was working on, especially because there are so many layers of my project being within a larger service which has a specific role within my company's product, etc. I want to make sure the impact and technical value is sold well. It feels like an intern's resume to me right now, not a full time engineer's resume.

I also don't know what to put for the sections below my full time job. I haven't touched those internship bullet points for four years, but a resume with only one thing on it looks awkward

Would appreciate any advice! Tia

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