mcdowell-cv VS Awesome-CV

This is the resume template I've used over the last 8ish years: https://www.careercup.com/resume

It doesn't hurt to get someone to review your resume if you're not getting bites.

If you can find a friend's cousin's sister who works at a FAANG company who's willing to refer you, that'd be ideal. All the FAANG companies I've interviewed have an internal referral system.

I only got into a FAANG company once as an intern. It was pure luck that I didn't have any leetcode rounds. Every other time I tried interviewing for SWE my fall was leetcode. The good news is there isn't much luck required, its 90% just a grind. You can be the unluckiest person on the planet and still get in. That being said, good luck :-)

Read through CTCI Resume to understand what makes the resume good, not necessarily the template

Use the Career Cup template: https://www.careercup.com/resume

The resume content itself looks solid and contains keywords but I think that it is not properly structured, which may be causing automated resume evaluators to reject it. Consider adding LinkedIn and GitHub links to it too. Also, it was not immediately clear how many years of full-time experience you had. Mark your experiences clearly as internships or jobs. Additional resource and template that I think might be helpful- https://www.careercup.com/resume

As far as format, you can't go wrong with the Gayle McDowell Method. It's actually on overleaf as a standard template, but her method has good best practice info on writing a tech focused resume in general.

Too long, make it on page of your best work. No summaries, no one is going to read them. Use a different format, here's a link. https://www.careercup.com/resume

Read through CTCI Resume to understand what makes the resume good, not necessarily the template

I am in the process of rewriting my CV using the [awesome-cv](https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV) template and am pretty happy with how things are turning out.

Delete your résumé and fill in something like: https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV

You’ll probably need to get a temporary job. I suggest a union job like warehouse worker so you can get benefits.

Don’t let your pride get in the way of contracting.

Looks like it was made using Awesome CV https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV.

Try some more fancy templates and add a custom colour theme to stand out more: https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV

Awesome CV

Thanks! It's actually a LaTeX template (https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV). I thought the three red letters was kind of odd but if I remove it or change it to only the first letter etc it looks kind of weird so I decided to keep it for a splash of color. I was thinking about finding another template but all the other ones look too generic, and being simple can be good, but I think this strikes a nice balance between functionally simple and aesthetically pleasing.

I'm a big fan of the Awesome-CV LaTeX template

I write my own CVs in LaTeX using awesome-cv (https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV), just keep each section brief with some achievements/what cool stuff you've worked on.