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Resume Roast for Software Engineers

A recruiter opens a Software Engineer resume and reads two things: your last title and your stack. If the stack lists forty technologies, they assume you can defend about three of them. The bullet they remember is the one with a number in it. Everything else is scenery. So put what you built, what it ran on, and what changed up top where the first scan lands.

What Gabe checks first on a Software Engineer resume

List the languages and frameworks you could pass an interview in this week, not every tool you touched once at an internship in 2019.
Attach a number to at least one project: latency cut, uptime held, users served. A bullet that says improved performance with no figure is decoration.
Say what you owned inside team projects. A resume where every line starts with we makes a recruiter wonder what you did between standups.

Worth knowing

Recruiters spend about 7 seconds on a first resume scan. (Ladders eye-tracking study)

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