mcdowell-cv VS latexcv

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

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I generally avoid sending Word documents. IMO scanning PDFs is nowadays good enough to deal with LaTeX-generated PDFs. And when it comes to the templates... Personally I use LaTeX generated. Some time ago I was using LibreOffice but updating it was not pleasant. I wanted to have more fancy CV and store the source in GIT. I have chosen Sidebar Left from this repo: https://github.com/jankapunkt/latexcv and I am generally satisfied, but I also respect the above approach.

And for all resumes in https://github.com/jankapunkt/latexcv , I think they're not appropriate for CS resumes as they're too fancy

IMHO - Look at a different resume style nothing is jumping out at me and it's the style not the person. This is an older style very bland. There are lots of creative styles out there, you want to find what is most valuable about you and make that pop everything else is details. Example - https://github.com/jankapunkt/latexcv - this is just a few examples after a quick Google, I personally refuse to put my picture on there but a resume can show personality use it to your advantage.

Ja ga koristim za fakture, ali imas jako puno primera za CV u LaTeX-u (https://github.com/jankapunkt/latexcv)