A business analytics grad competing for AI engineering jobs
- On their ownAbout 50 applications in 4 months
- First interviewAbout 12 days after the rewrite
- With Magmira300 applications sent, 26 interviews
- OfferAI Engineer, $145K
Abhay had a STEM master's in business analytics and a BTech. He built LLM systems, retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows, most recently as an AI engineer at a small company, after an analyst role at a large IT firm.
His OPT clock was running, and he was up against CS graduates from top programs for AI engineering roles. Over four months he sent about 50 applications.
What we saw on the resume
His resume opened with an AI and LLM skills block. The systems he had actually shipped were further down, written as project descriptions. Someone reading the top third could not tell he had built a production RAG pipeline or an agentic Slack bot.
What we changed
- Opened with three shipped systems instead of a skills list.
- Rewrote each project around results: lower cost, fewer wrong answers, better match accuracy.
- Removed coursework so it read as an engineer's resume.
His first interview came about 12 days later.
“I had six months of OPT left and I was competing against CS grads from schools I'd never get into. The resume rewrite was the only thing that changed.”
Where it ended
AI Engineer, $145K
26 interviews from 300 applications, with an AI startup and a mid-size SaaS company.
Name shortened and employers generalized for privacy.
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