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Hi all,

I just got laid off without notice from my current job. Rather than wallow in self-misery, I decided to get started on the grind asap. I'm looking for any open controls, automation, or robotics engineering roles in the Philadelphia area.

Basically what the title says. My original post of the resume didn't get much feedback. Notified of layoff 5 months ago, officially laid off 2 months ago. Since layoff it's been mainly crickets. Last week I made some changes (reducing spill into the next line, removing periods, shifting skills section down, creating a templated cover letter with this resume's style that I quickly tailor for each app). I wonder if it's the lack of owned projects/leadership showing as firmly mid-level and not senior that is getting no traction. Could it be the lack of AI experience that's getting no traction? Seems like for a lot of job postings, I am on the cusp of mid-level/senior. Would appreciate the extra eyes and feedback on the resume itself, or other things that I could do!

Details, feel free to comment on these too:

- US Citizen

- SoCal area (OC/LA) - applying locally and remote, not relocating right now

- primarily backend experience, but am applying for full stack here and there

- initially received a couple of coding assessments and phone screens 3-5 months ago, haven't gotten any hits for the past couple of months

I'm a junior Mechanical Engineering student with a Computer Science minor graduating in May 2028. I'm currently searching for Summer 2027 internships in robotics, automotive, autonomous systems, mechatronics, mechanical design, and related roles. I'm primarily targeting companies in the U.S. and am willing to relocate for the summer.

This semester, I joined a humanoid/biorobotics research lab where I'll be working on ground and humanoid robotics. Outside of work and research, I've been building projects involving embedded controls, PID control, mechanical design, and robotic actuators.

Long term, I'm especially interested in robotics and autonomous systems. My university recently introduced a robotics master's program, which I'm considering pursuing after my B.S.

I'd appreciate feedback on my bullet points, technical skills, project selection, and whether I'm quantifying my internship experience effectively. I'm beginning my Summer 2027 applications now, so I'm primarily looking to fine-tune the resume before applying more heavily this fall.

I recently graduated in May with my master's and have been applying to jobs since then. Mainly applying to jobs in design, aerospace, manufacturing/automation, and research that I find interesting. Location-wise I am trying to be on the east coast but could expand my search if needed. I have sent a total of 40 applications but only managed to get one interview, which I had to reach out to the hiring manager for. I have already made changes based on this subreddit and feel like it is decent. Given I have a master's from a pretty well known university, have a decent GPA, and was one of the major contributors on the solar racing team, I was expecting a little more from my job applications. I know 40 applications isn't that many and will be applying to a lot more in the upcoming weeks but is there something that is holding it back? Having no internships isn't helping but I would like an outside perspective on it and hopefully some ways to improve it to make it more successful.

(With my undergraduate research, I didn't do much for it at the time so it is difficult to write bullet points on it. I also was a course grader, university camp counselor, and have cool coding projects which I removed because I felt they were a little old/irrelevant)

Background: CS student based in Singapore, penultimate year.

About to start applying to internships for the Summer 2027 cycle, hoping to get some feedback to finetune this resume from more experienced people. I did a 6 months internship in a small startup previously but I'm hoping for more big tech/MNC roles, although I'm not sure if my resume is good enough for that. The rest of the resume is just university-related projects/modules or personal projects.

I mainly have experience in full stack dev (no further specialization in front or backend, I interned at a startup so I basically did everything), but I also have one ML/NLP project that I did under my university. However I'm mainly still hoping for full stack roles as I dont see myself doing AI/ML long term.

I got incredibly lucky with my first internship, which has resulted in a verbal return offer. Even with this offer, I want to keep looking in other areas of civil. I'm currently a sophomore, and my one interview led to the offer. How can I best improve my resume to attract more opportunities this summer or even down the line?

Any tips regarding my resume or internship search are welcome and appreciated!

Mechanical Engineer with 4 years at LG Electronics, starting an MSc at the University of Manchester in Sep 2026.

Targeting 2027 UK graduate roles in mechanical/project engineering, including energy/offshore companies.

I’m mainly looking for feedback on:

(0) Good to read?

(1) whether 2 pages is justified

(2) which projects should be kept/removed

(3) whether the CV reads as too manufacturing-focused

(4) bullet density / readability

(5)whether my previous 4 YoE creates any concern for graduate schemes

I graduated in July 2026 with a B.Tech in CS (8.2 CGPA) from a private university in Hyderabad, India. I'm targeting entry-level software engineering roles, primarily backend/general SWE, with some interest in cloud and distributed systems.

Locations: I'm based in Hyderabad but open to relocating anywhere in India for the right role - applying across Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, NCR, Chennai, and everywhere else, plus remote roles across India and the occasional remote-global role that's open to India-based candidates.

Background: during college I worked part-time for about 14 months as a frontend engineer at a small B2B fintech SaaS (real production work, ~84 merged PRs), plus a 6-month backend-leaning internship at a US startup. Alongside that I've built the systems projects on the resume - a time-series database, an API gateway, and an LSM-tree storage engine - all with published benchmarks and live deployments.

Situation: I've sent hundreds of applications over the past weeks and have only received few responses (1 interview and other few ghosted again), so I'm trying to figure out whether the resume itself is contributing to the low response rate. I recently revised my internship and project bullets to make them more relevant to general SWE roles and to communicate impact more clearly, and I'd like a sanity check on whether that worked.

Specific things I'd love feedback on: (1) whether the project bullets read as impressive or as over-detailed/too long, (2) whether leading with Projects above Experience is the right call when my only work experience is part-time + internship, (3) whether a part-time frontend title hurts me for backend roles and how to frame it better, and (4) anything that looks like an ATS parsing risk. Brutal honesty welcome.

Hi everyone, I’m an aerospace engineering student at UCF looking to improve my chances of landing an internship. I’ve been working on personal engineering projects outside of class, including a SOLIDWORKS UAV wing (photo attached) where I modeled a NACA 2412 wing, designed the internal structure, did basic structural calculations, and iterated the spars to reduce weight.

I’m trying to build a stronger portfolio and get more hands-on experience. For those working in aerospace/mechanical engineering, what would you recommend I focus on next? Are projects like this useful when applying for internships, and what skills or projects helped you land your first engineering internship?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Note: Photo of project does not represent a finished product, only a progress rep

I’ve started applying for jobs and wanted to get some feedback on my resume. Please point out any issues or things you think I could improve.

I feel like some of my work experience bullets are a bit lengthy, but at the same time, I feel like I need to explain the work I actually did.

Would really appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

I am updating my resume for when I graduate this Spring, I also work concurently while finishing my masters degree, full time at my internship that turned into an Engineering position. Please advise what can be improved on my resume and what is worded poorly. I am hoping to find a position closer to controls/robotics after I graduate however my job is not closely related. Overall finetuning and review of resume requested.

Title says it all, 2nd year CS student at UCL. Niche started in game dev, with any experience I could find was in QA. Thinking more about end-to-end systems and full stack dev, and I have projects I am working on right now that are developing skills in that area too, but those take time. Applying to internships for Summer 2027, and this is my most up-to-date resume. (UK citizen)

I have a Hackathon section on my original cv, but combined it with projects as per the subreddit guidelines.

I would appreciate any criticism towards my cv (content, structure, formatting, keywords, etc) Thank you very much!

I’m a frontend engineer based in Nigeria, targeting remote frontend engineer roles across SaaS, Web3, and product-focused teams. Most of my previous roles came through referrals, direct outreach, or client work, so I’m trying to improve how my resume performs for regular applications.

I’m mainly looking for feedback on whether my bullets show enough engineering depth, whether the resume looks too frontend-framework focused, and whether I should add 2-3 deployed solo projects. I’m also open to feedback on layout, wording, and whether anything should be cut or reordered.

I am a pre-junior (entering my 4th school semester) in a 5-year ECE program in the US, targeting any roles in embedded systems, hardware security, or ML internships/co-ops. I have been having a hard time getting traction and converting applications into interviews on Handshake and LinkedIn.

I am reposting this edited resume after I was told that my previous one sounded unauthentic and didn't convey enough information in the bullets. I removed a lot of numbers that sounded phony on their own, and added more info to the bullets, which made some of them extend to two lines.

So, critique as much as you can please (not too harshly lol).

Thanks in advance.

Don't have any exp like I said in the title. Looking for a software engineer internship, trying to improve on my resume that best I can before heavily applying. A lot of things happened when I entered college which tanked my GPA and had to deal with. Will have a 3.0 after this semester though. Wondering if I can even add or rearrange anything here. I already did my capstone though. Guess I should label the Grand Exchange as that.

Background: self-taught engineer - chemistry degree, started in IT ops (airline IT crisis management, then bank cybersecurity incident response), broke into software at Nike's Atlanta innovation center and spent 3 years building AWS serverless platforms there. Left Sep 2025; now co-founder/CTO of a small AI startup while running my own SaaS projects on the side.

Targeting: founding engineer / senior full-stack roles at AI startups. Remote or Atlanta, US citizen, no visa issues.

Situation: applications aren't converting into interviews yet. Would appreciate brutal feedback, especially on: (1) do three concurrent "Present" roles read as a red flag, (2) are the founder bullets too thin without traction metrics, and (3) does anything about the nontraditional path (chemistry degree, ops background) stop you from wanting to interview me. Thanks!

So as the text says after 2 years of work I managed to get into the AE industry through an internship. I wanted to share this not to pat myself on the back, because my family is already doing that, but to inspire you to keep going. Lemme give you some context as to where I'm at.

I'm a junior, at a university that is not known for aerospace, no jet propulsion lab, no AE companies nearby that will sponsor us, while UC Boulders rocket team is sponsored by Blue Origin, and Lockheed does the ethics class we have our own professors doing the ethics class and a rich man sponsoring our rocket team. The reason I say this is to show I don't come from a fancy school, it's literally just the University of Louisville. We're a manufacturing state, the closest thing we got is GE Aerospace, and all they do is take 1 student a semester, well now we have Redwire but it's nothing like out west. I come from a family whom none of are engineers, literally not one person in my entire family tree was an engineer, bunch of nurses, but nothing that would help me.

I'm moving to Boston for 6 months to work with a company that does plasma propulsion, hot fire runs, and has tons of contracts from the DOD for work(Specter Aerospace I'm not afraid to share, try your luck and reach out. how did I do it? Networked my way into it.

LinkedIn Premium, tons of cold text, cold emails, "Hi I'm a junior and this is what I'm good at, can we talk." Prolly got 100 conversations over the course of it all. Finally got lucky and talked to the right person, this guy liked what I said, offered me an interview, then offered me a position. It's networking, it's not what you know, it's who you know. So don't give up, keep networking, keep asking, apply for NASA L'SPACE to meet some people, join your rocket team, get some work done, if I hadn't of done a project for my team I wouldn't have gotten the chance, I came from literally nothing, no fancy school, or family member, barely any AE companies at the career fair and I managed to make it in. If I can you definitely can, it just takes time

https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacsheets2004/
I attached my linkedin this is not a self promotion feel free to reach out with questions

Hi everyone, I'm a computer engineering student in Togo, currently in an AI-focused track, targeting entry-level roles in AI/ML and full-stack/backend engineering. I'm open to remote positions as well as relocating if needed. I'm self-taught in most of my technical skills alongside my coursework, and I've built a few production-deployed projects on my own. I haven't started actively applying yet — I'd like feedback on the resume itself before I do, especially on whether the projects section effectively communicates depth and whether anything reads as weak or should be cut. Thanks in advance for your time!

Major: Bachelor in Computer Science Year: Senior Hello everyone, I'm currently a student who just finished my senior year and about to officially become a fresh graduate. I'm currently actively appying for entry level positions but struggling to convert any application into callbacks or interview, I'm at around 70 applications after doing around 3 applications a day so I'm thinking it may be a CV problem.

I also have some general question:

1. I read the wiki and I know we are supposed to shrink it to 1 page max but which parts should I cut right now?
2. Should I entirely remove my projects section to achieve 1 page?

Hi everyone! I'm an incoming Comp. Eng. sophomore at a mid-tier UC. Last year, I focused solely on school/grades because I wanted to graduate early and didn't care much about clubs, etc. The clubs and stuff are not crazy at my school. I have a 3.7/4.0 GPA. Honestly, I think I messed up, and I am going to focus a lot more on ECs this year. The problem with graduating early is that 2027 is probably going to be my last summer to gain internship experience. I did apply to a ton of internships last year with a similar resume, with mostly rejections and no interviews. I do feel slightly discouraged, and I don't know what I am doing wrong. I thought my resume was decent, but clearly I was wrong. What do you think I should improve and focus on moving forward? I am looking for resume and general advice. Thank you so much!

Right out of school I was in a testing/CAD role with some design work/vendor communication for half a year, then moved on to an analysis/FEA role for 10 years. These two jobs make up my entire resume, along with a skills section (which I’m not entirely sold on because I already filter my skills into my bullets) and a summary. But I miss doing the things I did in college/1st job – fiddling in SolidWorks, making assemblies, coming up with design solutions, working with my hands (building, tests, fit-ups). And I am so far removed from the products I analyze today that it is easy to lose motivation.

Because I am struggling to come up with design and hands-on-oriented bullets to be more attractive to recruiters, I am considering adding a CAD/drafting/measuring-heavy internship, and/or a projects section to highlight senior design and my extracurricular activity which were both hands-on design, although that experience is quite dated. Is this ill-advised? Not sure how often a recruiter makes it that far down my resume. I am toying with removing some analysis-specific bullets to make room for some/all this, or go onto a 2nd page and then also include my volunteer work (moreso soft skills/organization/leadership) that is about 5-10 hours a week to fill the 2nd page.

Most interviews I’ve been on I make it pretty clear I want hands-on, and be more integrated with design, but they haven’t gone anywhere. I would have thought 10 years of analysis would be pretty transferable to design. But I feel I am missing GD&T, specific industry spec knowledge, in-service problem solving, electro-mechanical exposure, etc. I mostly evaluate structures (DoD) under static/dynamic loading.

I do really like my current 1 page resume that has gotten me a handful of interviews and 2 offers (one was basically the same FEA job, other only has hands-on when traveling which is rare), but I think my resume lacks the experience employers are looking for in a design or bench or manufacturing engineer. Although maybe I just need to focus more on my design/hands-on experience during interviews.

So, at a minimum I am thinking I drop my skills section, cut some bullets from my analysis job, refine my summary, then add in better-suited experience despite it being quite old.

Major: Computer Science BS

Year: Senior

Hello everyone, I'm getting ready to apply to jobs / internships as a senior in college but need some help on my resume. I've worked on a Task Management App project and Responsive Weather App project using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, and Tailwind CSS, each project took me a month to complete. But those 2 projects were made in December 2024 and January 2025 and I haven't touched them ever since. So my question is, should I still put them on my resume ? I also have other projects from a college that I transferred from but not sure if I should put that on my resume since if I do and I get asked questions on that, I have to tell the interviewer what college I transferred from ( the school wasn't reputable ) and I'm afraid that might end up with a rejection. However, I also have projects done at my current university that I'm not sure if I should include. I'm just not sure if I should just put work experiences on my resume and just disregard all the projects I've done but then my work experiences are not relevant to CS ( 7 Eleven, Tim Hortons, and my family restaurant ) Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I’m an Electrical Engineering junior looking for my first engineering internship for Summer 2027. I’m mainly targeting VLSI/ASIC, digital hardware, embedded systems, PCB/hardware design, and any general electrical engineering internships. I’d really appreciate feedback on the overall strength of my resume, whether my projects and engineering experience are strong enough for internship applications, whether my bullet points clearly communicate my technical contributions, and whether I’m using the right technical keywords for hardware/EE roles. I’m also open to suggestions on anything that should be removed, reordered, rewritten, or made easier to scan, as well as what types of internships this resume seems best suited for. Thanks in advance for any feedback.