In 1 day, I reviewed 34 Engineer Resumes 🤯
Here are the 4 biggest mistakes software engineers make make:
🔸 Talks about technologies without impact.
🔸 Shows oldest experience first instead of last.
🔸 Listing technologies they don’t know well.
🔸 No career direction and constant jumps.
Talks about tech without discussing impact
❌ BAD: “Wrote services using Java, MySQL, Redis, AWS”
✅ Good: “Wrote services for 100 million Monthly Active Users and 99.99% uptime using Java, MySQL, Redis, AWS”
Give me hints about financial impact, scale, and quality.
Doesn’t use reverse chronological order
❌ BAD: Listing everything you did starting from school. Managers don’t care what you did 4 years ago, they want to know what you can do today.
✅ Tell me the most about your last job. Impact, technology, team size. Then discuss older positions
Lists technologies they don’t really know
❌ Resumes that look like this: “Expert at C++, C, C#, Python, Javascript, Java, PHP…
