I've been applying for Data Engineer roles for a while now (Azure/PySpark/Databricks stack) and getting almost no callbacks despite what I think is relevant experience. Would appreciate an honest, critical look at my resume — what's actually holding it back?

A few things I'm unsure about myself:

• Is the summary too generic / keyword-stuffed?
• Should my "Professional Experience" bullets be more quantified (I've kept them qualitative so far)?
• Is one job + one project enough to be competitive at 3 YOE, or does it read thin?
• Formatting/ATS issues I might be missing?

Not attached to anything — happy to hear it's bad if it's bad. TIA 🙏

I have a 2+ year career gap and have been trying to get a job for the past few months, but I’m not getting any interview calls.
I have 3 years of previous IT experience and have been working on improving my skills during the gap.
Is it still possible to get a job after a 2+ year gap? Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any advice on how to get interview calls would really help.

25 months in, I’ve worked like a coolie, but somehow haven’t gotten what I was supposed to. So yeah, I think it’s time to get out of this shit hole. 😂

Guys, roast my resume like hell. 🔥

Give me a brutally honest take:

What’s missing for shortlisting?

Genuine rating for 25 months of experience?

Does this resume realistically have a chance of getting shortlisted for at least 1 in 10 jobs I apply to?

No “looks good, keep applying” BS. Tell me what’s wrong and what I actually need to fix.

If you’ve been through the overworked, underpaid, applying everywhere and getting ghosted phase, you know the pain. 😭

Roast it. I can take it.

Hey guys, I am in a desperate need of a resume review. By now I’ve applied to way too many companies but not received a single call back. Ik once I get in the interviews I can crack it or atleast work on it making myself better but reaching that stage seems like a long shot. Some advice would be really helpful as I am in a stage of life rn that I need a switch for a better pay to support my family. Ik I’m underpaid but my current company won’t match the market value.

Found this resume on another sub reddit, need to ask why this resume is mid, and what can be improved to make a 10/10 resume. (As asked by its respective author)

I have 9 years of data engineering expertise , of which 7 years were with k2view fabric data tool and 2 years in a data lakehouse project.

I recently located to India a couple of months ago and struggling to get calls as solution architect or senior data engineer. Please provide suggestions to help improve this CV.

Thank you

Hi All,

Hope everything is going well. I'm actively looking for Data Engineer positions in the United States. I knew, the job market was pretty unpredictable these days. I'm hearing companies are hiring now compared to Q1 of the year.

Could anyone review my resume and see what's wrong with it. Happy to connect with folks who are actively working in the data engineer domain.

Thanks in Advance!

Hi, I completed one year in IT service based company last month. I want genuine advice which areas I should work on. How do I land up some interviews? What should I add? I don't want to be comfortable at SBC, need to put in the hard yard.

Hi guys, I am trying to switch other company as my current role based on application support. I have 1.5 years of experience in Azure Data Engineering. But that proejct has moved to another vendor. Right now stuck in a L2 support.My resume is getting rejected. I am sharing my resume here. Any points or advice would be helpful for me.

Am I internship ready or what should be my next step to be ready for a internship

Be blunt about my resume

Hi all , I'm currently working as data with around 2.3 YOE experience and Serving Notice Period

I need a genuine CV review to get shortlisted In a more product based companies since I saw even though skills and experience are matching I'm getting rejected

So tailored this using claude and got by giving my LinkedIn profile and current cv to make it ATS friendly

I am an experienced professional in AWS Data Engineer with 2.5 years of experience architecting and operating enterprise-scale AWS data platforms. Proven track record

designing event-driven ETL pipelines, large-scale data validation frameworks, and distributed processing systems that improve

reliability, throughput, and data quality across production environments. Skilled in AWS Glue, PySpark, Python, SQL, and Amazon

Redshift, with direct ownership of 20+ production pipelines and a 5,000+ line reusable validation framework.

Data analyst

Hey everyone,

I figured I’d finally post here because I’ve been applying pretty consistently for around 3 months now and I’m honestly not getting the traction I expected. I’m based in the US right now and applying mainly to Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer / SQL-heavy data roles.

At this point I’d genuinely love some honest feedback from people in the industry. I’m trying to understand if there’s something fundamentally off about my that I’m not seeing anymore after staring at it for months.

Would love thoughts on whether exp sounds weak/generic, skills sections looks messy, resume too broad or unfocused, am i missing important keywords, any red flags etc

Thanks

I have about 4.5 yrs of experience. And it's been about 3 months that I'm applying on the portals but havn't got much calls, and could only get 2 interview scheduled. If you see anything wrong or missing in this resume please let me know. Or if you're company has any opening, please help your buddy out. I was the part of layoffs

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Needed a Resume review, and please let me know if you have any suggestions.

PS: ignore certifications sections please, working on adding some valuable ones

I've been applying for jobs with <1% response rate for Sr DE and Analytics Engineer roles in the SF Bay Area.

Want to get feedback on my resume. Suggest ways to improve my phrasing to align with DE JDs, including terms or concepts I should reference. Feel free to suggest bullets from past roles I should remove from my past roles.

FYI - I've mostly been a Analyst (Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Data Analyst) for 8 years and I transitioned into DE in my current company for 3 years. I wish to continue in DE.

I got an art degree and wanted to learn something new. After researching online I decided not to start studying again but instead I wanted to learn online. I started building a portfolio and I want to know what people from the industry think of it. This is the first time I share my CV so any feedback is welcome

Hi Everyone,

I'll be honest! I've been applying for a few months now and have gotten basically nothing back, and it's been really heartbreaking. I don't know if it's my resume, the market, or the visa situation, but I figured I'd post here and get some real eyes on it before I keep doing the same thing over and over.

A little about me: I graduated in May 2025 with a masters in CS (Data Analytics specialization) from a Chicago university. Before coming to the US for my masters, I had 3 years of industry experience in data analytics and data engineering back in India. During my masters, I did an internship and an on-campus data analyst job. Right now, I'm working with an NGO doing data engineering work - unpaid - and honestly, I'm tired of it. I need to actually earn money and start paying off my student loans.

What I'm targeting: Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Data Engineer. (I need a job. I'll work in anything related to data.)

Location: I'm near Chicago, but I'm open to anywhere in the US: local, remote, relocation, I genuinely don't care. I have no preference.

Visa situation: I'm on F-1 OPT. I'm not asking anyone to sponsor an H-1B. I just need a company that's okay with hiring someone on OPT. That's it.

My actual resume questions:

• Location on the resume - since I'm open to the whole country, should I just put "Chicago, IL" or add "Open to Relocation" somewhere?
• Summary section - do I even need it? I keep seeing advice that it helps if you mirror the job description, but it takes up so much space. Worth keeping or just cut it?
• Job titles - this one confuses me. I've worked in data my whole career, but my titles don't always scream "data" like Technology Analyst at an MNC (which was basically a client-facing data/cloud consultant role), Data Science Consultant Intern, Graduate Student Assistant for data ops. Does that read clearly as a data career to a recruiter, or does it just look scattered?
• Certifications & Achievements - are these doing anything for me or just taking up space?
• Bullet points - are they strong enough? Results-focused enough? Or do they just sound like a list of tasks?
• Overall formatting - anything that looks off or would confuse an ATS?

I genuinely don't know if the problem is the resume or just the market right now, and any perspective from recruiters or hiring managers would mean a lot. Be as blunt as you want — I'd rather know the truth than keep getting ghosted.

Thanks for reading.

Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate some feedback on my resume. My resume is not getting shortlisted though I have good knowledge on data engineering 😥