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Keep internships or project on resume?

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Software Engineer at Taro Community3 months ago

I have about 1.5 yoe + MS. My internships were at no name companies where I just did some basic SWE/QA work. But because its 2 internships it occupies like 7 lines on my resume (1 line for company, 1 for title, 1 bullet) x 2 + 1 space

On the other hand I have a project where I built a discord bot that was used in a large server (15k+ members) to allow for some customized moderation tasks and facilitate commands

Now on one hand the internship is actual work experience and work experience counts much more. But the impact from the project is undeniably more so im a bit confused if its worth removing the internship.

Plus i feel like keeping internship on the resume is also a bit of a status signal that I did get multiple internships during college. But not sure how much that matters if the impact is mediocre

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    Eng @ Taro
    3 months ago

    I would include both:

    1. The real world experience shows that you can work on a team on a (maybe?) mature code base
    2. The project shows that you can take a project and run with it to get users so you are product-oriented, and you can think about projects beyond just the technical part
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      Software Engineer
      Taro Community
      3 months ago

      It's a space issue. I would need to truncate bullets from my full time experience and replace it with less impactful internship experience as the internships will take me about 7 lines on the resume