[2 YoE] 600+ applications in 5 months and no callbacks (USA), ANY advice is appreciated
Hey so for some basic info:
- Do not require sponsorship
- 1.7 years of experience, applying for jobs that require 1+ or 2+ years of experience
- Located in East USA, applying all around the country to inperson/hybrid/remote roles
- Mainly targeting backend software engineering roles, and ones that have Java in the description
I recently discovered this subreddit and did some refactoring to my resume, and wanted everyone's opinion on my current resume, as well as addressing 2 main points:
-Are my bullet points strong? I feel like that might be why I'm missing out on opportunities (as well as the fact that I've had a career break of a year now)
- I worked for a no name consulting firm Z on some internal projects, as well as for a f500 company through Z. Is it okay that I split my time with company Z into 3 different subsections? The main reason I did this is to get the f500 name on my resume, and have more bullet points spread nicely around the resume vs 10 bullet points under the same role.
Any advice is very much appreciated, thank you so much for reading this far!
Posted Jun 3, 2025, 2:40 PM UTC · locked