Resume review for landing L4 or L5 in Faang+
My resume is below and a review would be great!
Questions:
- I tried to be concise and to "show" not "tell". What major improvements can I still make? Lots of progress already from seeing Alex's resume and the masterclass on resumes here, but would love more.
- Does L5 make sense given the resume, or since I have just over 3 years of experience would L4 be worth pursuing as well over my current position? Following up on questions about down leveling here, and leaving a startup for big tech here.
*Note because my most recent experience is Team Lead and where I don't directly ship, I did break the rules and use bold to highlight earlier impact. I also put skills at the bottom for visual balance.
Team Lead for Software Engineering, Company X ⁓ $450M startup ⁓ 1M monthly active users
April 2022-Present
- Managed 8 direct reports, 2 promoted to Senior (one from the junior), 3 on-boarded
- Proactively addressed underperformance among direct reports resulting in 2 engineers improving their skills to meet expectations
- Empathized with individuals to build trust and understand root causes which included addressing a system problem rather than blaming an engineer for poor performance
- Recognized hard work resulting in high team morale and often completing sprint goals
Android Engineer II, Company X ⁓ employee #18 of 150 ⁓ engineer #4 of 25
May 2021-Mar 2022
- Rebuilt our $125M-revenue driver, a 2D list of games, to be faster, modular, simpler
- Devised a strategy to improve UX through the creation of a bottom sheet and a resizing video solution, lead to a 4.3% increase in D7 profit
- Created a service reminding users when their games are installed, even when outside app, and made a reusable, modular notification system, leading to a 75% decrease in abandonment
- Debugged a $1M bug and presented a brownbag on it
Android Engineer I, Company X
Nov 2019-April 2021
- Presented 20+ architecture and testing docs to my team before building complex features
- Created robust test suites to ensure correct behavior and great UX through fault tolerance
Internships: Zillow, Undergrad Research
Skills: Kotlin, Java, Room/SQLite, SOLID, MVVM, Git, Design patterns, OOP, TDD
Discussion
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9 months agoAnonymous User [OP]Taro CommunityFor deciding on and landing L4 vs L5, a great compromise to feel confident in interviews and for success at the Senior level in big tech could be to switch from manager to Senior engineer at the startup. Then you could practice the best practices from Taro for a few months, make some nice impact, and interview for L5 from there.
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