13 years of cloud experience, sent out as a 14-page resume
- On their own87 applications in 6 months
- First interview2 weeks after the rewrite
- With Magmira340 applications sent, 29 interviews, 2 final rounds
- OfferSenior Site Reliability Engineer, $175K
Suman had 13 years in IT. He was AWS certified, worked as an SRE and senior cloud engineer, and had spent years at large IT services firms running multi-cloud, Kubernetes, and observability work.
Over six months he sent 87 applications and kept getting screened out, while colleagues with less experience got callbacks.
What we saw on the resume
His resume had grown to 14 pages. Content repeated from section to section, and a broken table turned into pages of stray characters. It also had two different email addresses. No recruiter was reading past page two.
What we changed
- Rebuilt the resume from 14 pages to 2 with the same experience.
- Removed the broken table and fixed the mismatched email address.
- Led with results: infrastructure delivered, recovery time cut, alert noise reduced.
His first callback came two weeks later.
“I'd been applying for months with the same resume. Nobody told me it was 14 pages. First callback was two weeks after the rewrite.”
Where it ended
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, $175K
29 interviews, 2 final rounds from 340 applications, with an enterprise cloud platform and a fintech infrastructure team.
Name shortened and employers generalized for privacy.
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