r/EngineeringResumes

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Hi everyone! I am a recent Aerospace MS grad and currently 3 months into the job search. I've sent 300+ applications and have had 12 interviews ranging from SpaceX and Anduril to several SoCal aerospace start ups, but have not been able to secure an offer. I've mostly been rejected after hiring manager interviews in the middle stage of the process. One big hinderance is that my work experience has all been in an academic setting with no industry exposure. I am trying to make the effort to network more as I continue to navigate the search along with more interview prep, and would appreciate any advice with respect to my resume or anything else, thank you!

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Hello, I am a rising junior in the aerospace engineering major and I am becoming increasingly anxious about my lack of internships before graduation. Last year I sent hundreds of applications but I was disorganized and lacking focus on what I wanted to specialize into. Since then I have chosen GNC, HIL, but specifically simulation and modeling. I was hoping to get feedback on my resume and advice on how best to continue into this field. I live in Wichita Kansas, as such my desired field is not super present and I don't want to be locked into manufacturing and production engineering.

Willing to relocate and to delay graduation for a coop.

Any advice or direction would be appreciated.

I'm a graduate student in my final semester looking to land an Operations Research Engineer or adjacent role (Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, etc.) but my background was initially in Engineering with some Operations Research adjacent projects and analysis. When I was applying for previous cycles I was mainly getting interviews for traditional engineering roles with only a few hits for Operations Research roles but I've started to get some more interviews on the OR side. I wanted to know what I should do to improve my resume since it might seem like my experience is more engineering focused. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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EDIT: Added a bit more info about myself so readers know who they're dealing with

I'm a Computer Engineering graduate in a new area with not many connections, and to be quite honest, I settled on what specifically I wanted to do quite recently. That has hurt me in some ways, as I definitely would have altered my internship search and graduate research path much if I had my current goals in mind. But hindsight is 20/20, I guess.

My dream job involves working at the interface between hardware and software in some capacity while supporting space exploration.

Currently that has resulted in attempting to find roles related to embedded systems or robotics (controls, system integration or computer vision), in aerospace companies local to me (I live in a bit of an aerospace hotspot). That said, I understand that I have to put practicality first and I'm pretty much open to any industry at the moment. I am also open to more hardware/electronics focused roles or human-factors research, as I think my experience could potentially suit either of these. Not having a PhD would definitely make any pursuit of research difficult, though.

I have had four interviews since I began applying in November last year (two robotics and two embedded), and none at all since graduating. I have sent out a total of about 150 applications out so far, most of that being since April.

As far as tactics go, I've mostly been using the main job boards (LinkedIn, Indeed, Handshake, etc) to find jobs within my current metro area, but I also send out applications for roles that would require relocation here and there. I do send out a fair number of direct applications as well, not relying on the "Easy Apply" too much. My resume is usually the only attachment I include in my application, but I'll add in a cover letter for roles I am especially interested in. That said, I've never gotten an interview for a role for which I submitted a cover letter.

I have an online portfolio but haven't put up a GitHub repo with code for recruiters to view yet. There are 3 main versions of my resume I work with, a main one attached here, one more focused on research for faculty/R&D roles and one more focused on hardware/electronics with one of my controls projects swapped out for an electronics one.

Could I get some feedback as to what I may be doing wrong with respect to my resume? I'm also specifically curious if it looks a bit too cramped. Much appreciated!

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Hello all, I am going into my senior year of college majoring in Mechanical Engineering. I was not able to land any internships for this summer or the upcoming fall. I was hoping to get some feed back on my resume. I applied to a little over 300 positions. I had 2 over the phone interviews, and no success. Any tip or advice would be appreciated. Im looking to go into the themed entertainment industry, but really any experience would be good. Im located in the Central Florida area, but applied to positions all over the country hoping something would stick.

also if you guys have any tips on what I could do/add to make myself more attractive to recruiters, any would be appreciated! Thanks

Senior frontend engineer with over 6 years of experience. Mostly focused on Angular, React, micro-frontends, and core state management.

Targeting senior frontend roles internationally that offer relocation and visa sponsorship.

Please give my resume a brutal review. I want to make sure the metrics and technical impact are clear to global recruiters, rather than just sounding like a list of daily responsibilities.

A few quick questions for the comments:

• Impact check: Do the bullet points sound like actual achievements or just tasks?
• Clarity: Is the project work (like the migrations and micro-frontend work) easy to digest?
• Layout: Any formatting issues or ATS flags I should fix?

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I graduated a year ago and still looking for a job. in this period I voluntarily started teaching CAD to one of my uni’s competition teams (Basically not a paid experience and not officially considered a staff)

Do I mention it as part of my work experience? I know the wiki advises against summary, but in my case do I need to add it to explain the situation?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently pursuing a BCA in India and am looking for internships and entry-level roles. My primary targets are:

• Full Stack Developer
• MERN Stack Developer
• Java Backend Developer
• Cloud Engineer
• Associate Software Consultant
• Implementation Consultant

I'm applying across India and am open to relocating.

I've attached my resume as requested by the subreddit guidelines.

I've been applying through LinkedIn, company career pages, Internshala, Wellfound, and other platforms, but I'm not getting as many interview calls as I'd hoped. Before I continue applying, I'd like to understand whether the issue is my resume or if I should be focusing on improving my skills and projects.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback on questions like:

• Would this resume realistically get shortlisted at your company?
• Which sections immediately look weak?
• Do my projects demonstrate real engineering skills or do they look like tutorial projects?
• Which skills should I add or remove?
• Is the resume ATS-friendly?
• If you had one month to improve this resume, what would you focus on?

Please be as honest as possible. I'd rather hear difficult feedback now than continue making the same mistakes.

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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

Im making a cold gas thruster system using high pressure n2 where i measure thrust and compare to theoretical value calculated from pressure and temperature.. the basic rocket engine equation stuff. anyway the costs do add up and im wondering if its worth it to spend 500+ on this relatively simple project. though i think the magic is in the measuring and procedures.

nice plus with this project is that its a stepping stone to a possible future gox/ethanol engine. has everything short of combustion and o2 handling so i could focus on that alone later.

My beliefs:

- I think my resume is pretty decent, maybe a 7/10 atleast.

- I think it clearly explains my skills (full stack / technologies listed) shown by a few projects.

I have gotten a few emails-back from decent companies, including Meta and Amazon, in the past. So I think atleasts thats a starting point!

If I am completely wrong, and my resume is 0/10, I'd like to know! Thanks guys

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Wondering if this is an issue with my resume or a result of general competition. I have mainly been targeting resources and mining as it is a huge industry here. I've sent probably 100 cold emails to small firms, I figured they would be more likely to respond (mainly ghosted apart from generic messages), now applying to everything I can on LinkedIn/Job hunting sites. I know I am pretty short on technical skills, what do you suggest I learn? Anything worth adding to my resume? Thanks!

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Resume General

Resume AgTech

So I've sent out around 500-600 applications (Indeed, LinkedIn, WellFound, School Handshake) over the past month. Whenever I find a somewhat food science, sustainability, or agtech position, I send out my AgTech resume. Otherwise I send out the general resume.

My resume style is going for the modern americana burger joint style. Almost like a food menu. Meant to be easily scannable by the eyes.

I haven't received any phone calls or bites yet. I'm on the East Coast of the US (between Philadelphia and NYC).

I'm applying for any entry-level or internship role I can find. I've also applied to a few defense/clearance jobs, but I've been a pretty regular pothead for a few years. I stopped about 2 months back, so I figure for the next few months there's a pretty low chance I'll be sponsored by a company once I tell them about my history (just weed, nothing else).

Some things I've noticed which I think contribute to this:

• No network (the big one). I don't really have friends (or even references), so I don't have a network. Just personal issues with socializing, and also I commute about an hour to school, so I don't really have any opportunities where I'm at. I'm going to try a bit harder in my last semester of college, but at this point I don't really know how to build connections besides superficial questions.
• Resume bullet points don't really highlight impact. Just responsibilities. But all the projects/jobs I've worked on don't really have any metrics I can use (the ones listed are sort of bullsh1t that I ballparked and put, just to have something). Any projects I've done have just been for myself (in which case, they are more creative than problem solving). The jobs have just been drone positions where I simply do what I'm told, with no autonomy (but I highly desire that).
• I have a foreign name, but I'm a US citizen. Every job app asks if I'm a US citizen or if I need sponsorship, so I figure it's not necessary to list that I'm a citizen but idk.
• The AI trainer is just the Data Annotation, Alignerr type work for coding projects.

The only thing I think redeemable about my resume is that the JobTrackie project was a capstone course where I was in a group of 8 people, and I did pretty much all the work except for one other person. But the commit history pretty much shows I'm the only one who did anything. There are no metrics or impact to use. I mostly worked on frontend and deploying the project, but it had no actual users and didn't really function.

I'm looking for any and all help. Once I get on EBT, I'm going to try and utilize my state's job placement services, but I remember when I tried to use them before there wasn't anything available in my field (some IT stuff, but they wanted certs and things like that).

Honestly, I probably couldn't pass the interview, but it would be nice to at least have an interview so I can practice. I'm not getting a single reply :(

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Rising senior Aerospace Engineering student with a 3.7 GPA. I haven't managed secured an internship yet, but I have research and project experience. However, due to my Spring 2027 graduation and my upcoming capstone project, I'm unable to do fall or spring internships this coming year, or else I have to push back my graduation an entire year.

Ideally, I planned to pursue internships or careers in Huntsville, as that seems to be a giant ideal tech hub for my field, so I've targeted mainly roles there. I've had little to no luck (only 5 interviews since I've been in college in total). I haven't been picky applying to roles either, as I've applied to multiple mechanical, test, systems, and design roles and anywhere where my experience and college classification align with the posting, however I will admit my resume looked much weaker and less ATS-friendly than this previously.

Is there anything I can do to improve this no-internship situation? Am I a moderately viable candidate for entry-level applying or late-stage summer 2027 internships post-graduation, or is there not much hope for me?

 

Next year, I am planning on applying for placement years (Summer 2027) across a multitude of fields [Big tech - Digital Design - Robotics - F1 - Power/Renewables]. I know this is a broad list, but ofc I will tailor this CV to every sector/field I will apply to.

I used the CV guide and template provided and stitched up this CV using all the experience I have and all my personal projects I have done so far.

What do you think requires improvement and any tips?

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Hello everyone, just graduated this May, and I've been applying like crazy, but I've had no luck. I have over 150+ applications and have only landed one interview. I struggled to get an internship during my school years, so what is on my resume is pretty much all the experience I have. Looking to get a Position in Texas. Please, if there is any feedback you can provide to improve my resume, it would help alot.

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For some reason when I edited my posts, my resume went away but you can still find them on my profile.

However, title says it all! While I didn’t get SWE, I got a tech support help desk job which was still really challenging, and was one of 66 candidates that I know of. Now, I’m working in coordination with IT, networking team, and software dev team so I have a lot of chances for lateral movement! Thanks you guys to all who helped & to the founders/mods of this sub! AMA!

Hi everyone, before I get started, no I did not vibecode an entire project and am asking if thats what I should say.

One of my main tasks at an internship I completed, was refactoring an entire codebase into proper layered architecture. There were files that were 4000+ lines long because whatever developer worked there before me put no thought behind designing it. The team that was currently working on it had extreme difficulty debugging and scaling because of how unorganized the files were.

While I did use tools like copilot to help me, I refactored those files using layered architecture and cleaned up the codebase using SOLID principles and whatever.

One of my guesses with the future of backend work, is that theres going to be a lot of examples like this. I would think new developers are going to be working with/cleaning poor code done by companies hiring pure vibecoders.

What I'd like to get across in my resume bullet point is my knowledge of system design, while also showing that I have experience working with messy vibe code as it might reflect what they currently have lol

Currently, I have something like this:

Refactored (or transformed?) 4,000+ lines of unstructured vibecode into a controller-service layered architecture enforcing SOLID design principles; ensuring long-term scalability and reduced debugging complexity

However, im not sure if using the word "vibecode" is too casual or if Im even getting my point across.

Any advice on how I can word this, thanks!

I'm having trouble landing any interviews with this resume, is there anything I should change or add? I also have other experience like other clubs and restaurant part times, but I only included what I thought was relevant.

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I’ve been a full‑stack dev for 8+ years and I’m currently a Senior Software Developer at a FinTech in Toronto. The pay isn’t great and the work has gotten pretty boring — honestly feels like stuff a 3‑year dev could knock out with AI now. I’m trying to move into something more challenging and better paying.

I’ve been applying to tons of roles (remote + hybrid), but I’m getting way more rejections than I used to. I know the market sucks, but I’m also pretty sure my resume needs work. If anyone’s willing to tear it apart and tell me what to fix, I’d really appreciate it.

PS: I took a break between 2023–2024.

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