SDE intern resume: a LaTeX example for software engineering internships

Internship recruiters know you're still learning; they're looking for signs you can build things and pick up new tools fast. Show two or three projects that work, your coursework, and your coding practice, all on one tidy page.

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A sample sde intern resume in Jake's Resume.

What recruiters look for

Working projects
Something you built that runs, with a link, a stack and one number.
Learning speed
A hackathon, a new language picked up for a project, an open-source contribution.
Fundamentals
Data structures and algorithms coursework or practice.
Clean, short writing
Short bullets that start with a verb. Recruiters skim intern resumes fast.

Weak bullets, and stronger ones

Participated in a hackathon.

Won 2nd place of 120 teams at HackIIT with a bus-tracking app built in Flutter and Firebase in 36 hours.

→ The result, the competition size and what you built.

Contributed to open source.

Merged 4 pull requests into an open-source Python CLI, including a fix for Windows path handling.

→ Countable, checkable and specific.

Made a weather app.

Built a weather app in React Native with offline caching, 1,000+ installs on the Play Store.

→ Real users turn a tutorial-style project into proof.

Words sde intern job posts use

Use the ones that are true for you, inside your bullets as well as in Skills.

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • Java
  • Python
  • C++
  • JavaScript
  • Git
  • SQL
  • OOP
  • REST APIs
  • Linux
  • problem solving

Every job post is different. Check your resume against the exact post to see which of its must-haves your resume shows.

Tips

  1. 01Lead with Education and projects; experience comes later, if any.
  2. 02One page, no photo, no objective statement.
  3. 03Link GitHub, and make sure your pinned repositories have READMEs.

Questions

What if I have no experience at all?

That's normal for an internship. Projects, hackathons and coursework fill the page; make each one specific.

Should I list my CGPA?

Yes if it meets the company's cut-off, which many Indian internship drives use.

Other resume examples

All of them use Jake's Resume, the one-page LaTeX template engineers share on Overleaf. Once yours is ready, tailor it to each job.