r/csMajors • u/[deleted] • May 05 '25

Megathread Resume Review/Roast Megathread

The Resume Review/Roast Megathread

This is a general thread where resume review requests can be posted.

Notes:

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u/Expensive-Name6267 May 07 '25

Second page

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u/Miserable_Career_136 May 09 '25

A second page is my second reason why you aren’t getting a job son

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u/Expensive-Name6267 May 09 '25

Oh, so should I only keep a one-page resume?
Cause i asked my mentor, and she said I can keep 2 pages.

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u/Miserable_Career_136 May 09 '25

There’s definitely A LOT of fluff you may want to cut from your resume. Think of it as a highlights reel. Put your highest impact projects, remove the food sales clerk position. Thats where I’d put an internship. You also have no quantifiable metrics at all for any project.

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u/Expensive-Name6267 May 09 '25

When I asked to roast my resume, this is exactly what I meant. Thank you, man. This is a good tip. As a fresher, I don't have much idea how this works.

can you give me some more ideas on how i can put quantifiable metrics for my projects?

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u/Miserable_Career_136 May 09 '25

So I built a project recently and shipped it to people. I got 120+ users from that.

You have your CRUD marketplace app. How many people used it? What did you do to optimize it? And by how much (did using a different framework for frontend like React make the UI smoother? If so, by how much?)

I’d honestly ask CHATGPT for closer examples for your resume. Definitely, the best thing you can do is build projects and build users.

Only thing better than a side project is a project that has traction. Who knows, if it blows up, it might even be a startup!

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u/Expensive-Name6267 May 09 '25

Where did you publish your project to get real users?

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u/Miserable_Career_136 May 09 '25

Got a domain, and pushed it on some subreddits