Hey there! If you’re planning to apply for a Full-Stack developer role at Oddmind Innovations, we’d like to offer some transparency on the types of students that usually get rejected within the application stages.

Common Reasons for Rejection:

Resume shortlisting:

• Poorly formatted as a one pager without a professional looking sans-serif font.
• Your projects were not hosted and linked with a CTA link
• Your skills/frameworks used in the project weren’t mentioned (eg. FastAPI, Python, NodeJS etc)
• Your hosted projects had absolute trash UI/UX or don’t work at all (broken links, signup pages).
• Your projects is another “Follow along” project instructed by your favourite Youtuber
• Your project shows no intent: generic design, generic write-up, generic explanation etc
• You’ve made an extremely common project (weather-app, food blog, e-commerce website, Notetaking app etc)

WellFound/Linkedin Profile:

• Your cover letter screams ChatGPT
• The profile showed no individual expression/creativity through projects

From Interview:

• You didn’t join on time
• Your project wasn’t ready to be showcased before the meeting
• You didn’t have a clear intent behind building your personal projects
• You had no idea about the company/their products