Resume Building: Best Practices

Resume for software engineering jobs at product-based companies

Resume, or as old school people like to call, Curriculum Vitae (CV) is one of the most important things that you need to focus on while looking for a job. It is usually the first impression that you make on the company.

Having reviewed multiple resumes, I’ve seen a few common mistakes that people make. To help candidates create a good resume that might help them get shortlisted at product-based companies, I’ve listed down the DOs and DONTs of resume making through a QnA format.

Most of these should be valid for you irrespective of your years of experience (students, freshers, experienced professionals) or your role (SDE/Fullstack/Backend/Frontend/Mobile/SDET/SRE/DevOps Engineer).

Questions I’ve answered through the article:

  • What is the ideal size of a resume?
  • Why should I keep my resume under 1 page?
  • How to keep my resume under 1 page?
  • Do you’ve any formatting tips?
  • What is a good resume format according to you?
  • Can I lie on my resume?
  • Do you’ve any additional tips to make my resume relevant?

Article Link: Resume for software engineering jobs at product-based companies

Please let me know if you’ve any feedback.


I actively write about interview preparation on LinkedIn as gcnit

My background:
Ex-Flipkart, SDE-II
Ex-Microsoft, SDE
workat.tech, Co-founder


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