Top third matters most
Recruiters scan the top third of page one in under 8 seconds. Put a one-line summary, your stack, and your single strongest project there. Save the education block for the bottom — nobody is filtering on your college first.
We've reviewed every resume that comes through our placement program — north of 5,000 a year. The candidates who land interviews aren't necessarily the best engineers. They're the ones whose resume gets read past line three. Here's the layout we coach now, and what we removed to make room for it.
Recruiters scan the top third of page one in under 8 seconds. Put a one-line summary, your stack, and your single strongest project there. Save the education block for the bottom — nobody is filtering on your college first.
Every bullet either has a number or it goes. "Improved performance" is fluff. "Cut p99 from 1.4s to 280ms by caching the user lookup" is a hire signal. If you can't quantify, the line probably doesn't deserve to be there.
Don't list 6 projects with 1 line each. Pick your strongest, give it three crisp bullets — what shipped, the hard problem, the measured outcome. Recruiters interview the project, not the list.
Photos. Marital status. References available on request. The skills bar charts where you rate yourself 4/5 on JavaScript. The objective statement. The Hindi-to-English translations of your job titles. All of it is dead weight.
Full StackSix months ago we ripped out 14 REST endpoints. Here's the type-safety dividend, the cold-start gotcha, and the migration plan that didn't break a single learner login.
Data ScienceIf you can grok dot products, you can grok embeddings. Build a movie-recommender from scratch in 60 lines — no PyTorch, no TensorFlow, no jargon.
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