u/Original_Contract951

Hi there,

I unfortunately just got laid off at a Series B startup after having worked there for a year. I received really high performance reviews and I think I had an enormous impact there, but alas, we have budget constraints, so I got the boot. The social impact of my startup was unbelievable and I'm going to miss working there dearly.

When I was last applying to jobs, I think I had some amount of success. I think my response rate was 1/50 or so. I had more success with larger companies than smaller ones, I think.

I tried to follow enough of the conventions from the subreddit rules. I chose to put my education at the top because it's a very highly ranked school and I still only graduated fairly recently. In case some things look a bit out of place, I tried to anonymize the positions and such.

Applying to full stack positions within Canada, mostly so I can live with family. The number of high-quality jobs here seem extremely limited for my experience level, but I might not be looking in the right spots. I prefer remote jobs, but I'm okay with anything near Toronto. I'm a dual-citizen of America/Canada.

I have a few questions:

1. The first lines are pretty long, but I really did feel like I did a huge amount at my startup. I worked for most of the day every single day, and had a very large impact during my time there. I didn't want to put a huge number of bullet points though, so I combined quite a bit into those bullets. Are they too long?
2. Wondering if there's too much jargon (HMAC-SHA256, WCAG, DLP, etc.). I feel like enough hiring managers will know enough of these, but perhaps I'm doing a bit too much with them?
3. Any feedback at all for the bullet points. I think I can explain all of them fairly well, and I think I'm perhaps embellishing them a bit much, but I feel like they sound okay as is? Maybe I'm not explaining the technologies I'm using well enough though? I happened to use a fairly similar stack on a lot of my most recent positions.

Thank you so much.

My resume, anonymized

Hi there,

I unfortunately just got laid off at a Series B startup after having worked there for a year. I received really high performance reviews and I think I had an enormous impact there, but alas, we have budget constraints, so I got the boot. The social impact of my startup was unbelievable and I'm going to miss working there dearly.

When I was last applying to jobs, I think I had some amount of success. I think my response rate was 1/50 or so. I had more success with larger companies than smaller ones, I think.

I tried to follow enough of the conventions from the subreddit rules. I chose to put my education at the top because it's a very highly ranked school and I still only graduated fairly recently. In case some things look a bit out of place, I tried to anonymize the positions and such.

I have a few questions:

1. The first lines are pretty long, but I really did feel like I did a huge amount at my startup. I worked for most of the day every single day, and had a very large impact during my time there. I didn't want to put a huge number of bullet points though, so I combined quite a bit into those bullets. Are they too long?
2. Wondering if there's too much jargon (HMAC-SHA256, WCAG, DLP, etc.). I feel like enough hiring managers will know enough of these, but perhaps I'm doing a bit too much with them?
3. Any feedback at all for the bullet points. I think I can explain all of them fairly well, and I think I'm perhaps embellishing them a bit much, but I feel like they sound okay as is? Maybe I'm not explaining the technologies I'm using well enough though? I happened to use a fairly similar stack on a lot of my most recent positions.

Thank you so much.

My 2 YoE resume