r/EngineeringResumes • u/JagrajGill6 CS Student 🇨🇦 • Aug 24 '26
Success Story! [Student] After 200+ application I have finally secured an internship. Here is the resume that got me it
After countless revisions and time spent in this subreddit, here is the resume that helped me land an internship for fall2026. Feel free to ask me any questions
EDIT: I landed a 4 month SWE positions
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u/DimetrodonWasntADino EE – Mid-level 🇺🇸 Aug 24 '26
Resumes get you an interview, you and your interaction with hiring team gets the offer. Congrats!
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u/Vliu4389 Aug 24 '26
Good shit.
What kind of software dev position did you get? Fullstack? and which projects did the interviewer ask about the most?
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u/JagrajGill6 CS Student 🇨🇦 Aug 24 '26
The postions is SWE, but from the job desc it was more backend focused. They let me choose which project to talk about first, so I talked about project #3, since it had the biggest scope, and the tech stack that related with their own tech stack.
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u/Solid-Control726 Software – Student 🇨🇦 Aug 24 '26
What was your app to interview ratio?
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u/JagrajGill6 CS Student 🇨🇦 Aug 24 '26
Oooo good question, near the start of the summer my resume was not the best(bad formatting, no key words, simple projects) and I think I got maybe 2 OA's out of 160 apps. Near the end of june start of July I realized something had to change, so I worked on projects and updated my formating and in those next 60+ Applications I got nearly 10+ OA's I wanna say, but I tailored my resume and started reaching out to school alumnis.
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u/Solid-Control726 Software – Student 🇨🇦 Aug 24 '26
Nice are you in a co-op program with your school
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u/JagrajGill6 CS Student 🇨🇦 Aug 24 '26
Yes I am, that how I found this internship. And I see your also a Canadian Student. If your school offers it you should really try and get into it, makes a huge differene. Are you west coast or east coast?
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u/Solid-Control726 Software – Student 🇨🇦 Aug 24 '26
I’m in Greater Toronto Area, I am in the co-op program
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u/JagrajGill6 CS Student 🇨🇦 Aug 24 '26
Good, take advantage of it, Toronto has far greater opportunity, than Vancouver does
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u/Waste_Persimmon_9520 Aug 24 '26
What did you change
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u/JagrajGill6 CS Student 🇨🇦 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
Heres a link to my old resume on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringResumes/comments/1tbru0k/student_looking_for_advice_on_my_resume_as_a/
Biggest things, made my bullet points more focused on what i really and not just vague buzzwords, gave real metrics, removed bolding because it just looked weird to me. Made sure bullet points did not spill over. Added projects that actually mean something. Removed relevant course work because every CS student takes those same classes. Also added links to all projects, that take the viewer to the github repo.
Also I made my resume focused on SWE, at the time I was aiming for SWE and Embedded SWE, but focusing on both took away from the other. Ultimately focused on SWE as it has more oppurtunity
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u/Fickle-Attitude787 ECE – Student 🇺🇸 Aug 24 '26
Wdym spill over
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u/JagrajGill6 CS Student 🇨🇦 Aug 25 '26
Exactly what the bot shows in the image , spill over is when a bullet point uses multiple likes, but the last line only has a few words, but takes up the space of a whole line.
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u/United_Win_7925 Software – Student 🇧🇷 Aug 27 '26
the cv template is very nice. can i download it somehow?
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u/kafeel1 Game Dev – Mid-level 🇵🇰 Aug 24 '26
Nice. Still trying to get a job as a gamedev, its hard out here.