EugeneFedotov

Location: Jersey City, NY

Remote: I can do it if it's required.

Willing to relocate: yes.

Technologies: open to anything, proficient in Java and JavaScript

Résumé/CV: http://docdro.id/s3P0CUA

Email: [email protected]

About Me: graduated with a BS degree in CS. Looking for my first job. I have 2 months of experience at a NYC startup as Node.js developer. I recently became a Cassandra contributor.

I am very carefully considering what to do with my resume.

In the past, I paid this guy (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fecak) to make me a resume. I didn't post the link to that version of my resume. He said to do stuff like put my education on top, while people in this thread are saying to put it on the bottom. There are other conflicting points that I'm not going to mention for now. Needless to say, I have to be careful with this; I used to have education on the bottom.

Next, two things happened:

1) One person is giving me his time to help me with improvement. I want to hear his resume advice.

2) I received an invitation to do remote work for food money at a startup, which I agreed to do.

So I don't have any guaranteed date, until I hear back about my resume from the person I'm talking to.

Update: I've been reading every post.

I do lack OSS contributions. I do have a Github (nothing too complex) with some solid code, and a few running websites. I do have great recommendations from working on a two month contract for a startup.

I've never encountered a tech interview in any of my phone calls or on-sites.

I've tried applying for QA, but got turned down on my second interview with an engineer, because they thought I would be bored, since I already had some dev experience from a two month contract.

I've already sought advice. This included coffee with other HN users, and posting top threads. One is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726646

I personally can't get a junior level role (first job after university).

Recruiters say I lack experience. I have interviewed with Robert Half Technology, Addison Group, and Talener.

I have been rejected from QA. The interviewer was not convinced that I would be interested enough, since most people don't go dev -> QA (I had a 2 month developer contract at a startup).

I have multiple versions of my resume. I actually paid a service called ResumeRaiders, where they wrote an objective. I've received lots of negative feedback from that.

I have a Github full of small projects (ASP.NET site, API, AngularJS, various JS programs, etc.), but I felt it did more harm leaving it on my resume.

mygoldanimals.com hosting is paid by the client. It was working last month. If you do a Google search, you should see it's an actual business. I'm not sure what's going on with that, especially since the shared host provider has been bad over the year. It's unfortunate that it's currently not working.

Yeah, the $40k/year company I mentioned is a retail company. They did seem terrible based on how the interview went.

I had a 2 month NodeJS contract. I'd say I'm one of the most overconfident yet realistic people you'll meet. I will do my best to do whatever you need.

I'm actually not "fresh" out of college. I graduated in May 2015. I did take an assessment for Amazon back then and failed it. I did get referrals recently to retry at Amazon, but I no longer get accepted. I also spoke to a Google recruiter and they won't let me interview unless I have at least 6 months of experience.

I have no idea what I like besides being a competent developer. All I know is I want to work on interesting stuff, with competent and great people, and for a company who cares about their employees and understands that developers are not worth $19/hr (less than my barber).

I definitely do not have even 1 year of experience. God, it's so hard being a specialist when you don't even know what you want as someone with barely any experience. I did NodeJS for two months for a contract.

I've been a part of that meetup. I actually volunteered at Propeller, and know Aaron Price well.

Sorry, it's not Jet. The company was The Children's Place (I should've said right by Hoboken, but was trying not to out them). Jet is actually a much greater company, and I have previously interviewed with them.

I have been unable to find employment, minus a short contract, since graduation. I practically get rejected at every company. So any feedback is helpful.

http://docdro.id/p9Rei3K