Arc.dev Resume Builder - Stop Getting Auto-Rejected for Formatting Bullshit

Building a resume as a developer is absolute hell. Regular resume builders are built for people who "synergized cross-functional teams to deliver customer-centric solutions." They don't know what to do when you need to explain that you reduced MongoDB query time from 2.3 seconds to 180ms using proper indexing.

We've seen thousands of developer resumes over the years. The good ones don't get rejected by ATS robots. The bad ones never make it to human eyes, even when the developer is brilliant. That's the problem we're solving.

The Resume Hell Every Developer Knows

Here's what happens with other resume builders:

Canva makes pretty resumes that ATS systems hate. Your beautifully designed resume with custom fonts gets converted to plain text that looks like someone sneezed on a keyboard. The ATS can't read it, so you get auto-rejected.

Generic builders don't understand tech. They want you to write "Improved team efficiency" instead of "Reduced deployment time from 45 minutes to 3 minutes using Docker containers and automated CI/CD pipelines." One gets you interviews, the other gets you ignored.

Upload features are broken. You upload your perfectly formatted resume and the parser thinks your employment dates are phone numbers. You spend 2 hours fixing what should have taken 5 minutes.

Here's What We Do About It

We help you turn this garbage:

"Worked on backend improvements for better user experience"

Into this:

"Reduced API response time from 800ms to 120ms by implementing Redis caching and optimizing PostgreSQL queries, improving user retention by 23%"

The difference is specifics. Real numbers. Technical details that hiring managers actually care about. Instead of buzzword soup, you get concrete achievements that prove you know what you're doing.

ATS Systems Are Fucking Everywhere

ATS systems are picky as hell about formatting. We've tested our formatting against Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and BambooHR - the big ones that tech companies actually use.

Here's what breaks ATS parsers:

• Tables (they can't read them)
• Graphics or icons (invisible to robots)
• Unusual fonts (gets mangled in conversion)
• Complex layouts (confuses the parser)
• Wrong date formats (MM/YYYY vs MM/DD/YYYY matters)

Our templates use boring, ATS-friendly formatting that actually works. Not pretty, but it gets your resume to human eyes.

I've seen resumes with perfect qualifications get auto-rejected because the candidate wrote "JavaScript" instead of "Javascript" or put their dates in DD/MM/YYYY format instead of MM/YYYY. ATS systems are that fucking picky.

Job Hunting Sucks Right Now

Every decent remote position gets 200+ applications. Your resume has about 6 seconds to not get tossed.

We've placed developers at companies like GitLab, Shopify, and dozens of startups you haven't heard of yet. The ones who get interviews have resumes that pass the robot filter AND make engineers want to talk to them. That's the balance we're trying to help you hit.

This won't magically get you interviews if you can't code. But if you're solid and just suck at selling yourself on paper, it'll help you stop getting auto-rejected for stupid formatting reasons.

I've seen developers write this kind of shit on their resumes:

• "Responsible for backend development"
• "Worked with databases"
• "Improved system performance"
• "Collaborated with team members"

Here's what those same accomplishments look like when you're not being boring:

Instead of "Responsible for backend development":

"Built REST API with Node 18 and Express that handles a decent amount of traffic. Pretty solid uptime most of the time when it's not randomly breaking. Had to upgrade Node versions because we kept hitting weird memory issues."

Instead of "Worked with databases":

"Fixed some slow PostgreSQL queries that were taking forever - went from 4-5 seconds down to under a second most of the time. Turns out proper indexing actually matters. Learned this the hard way when the DB crashed during a product demo."

Instead of "Improved system performance":

"Added Redis caching because the database was getting destroyed. Cut database load by a bunch and AWS costs dropped from like $800 to $300-something a month, which made the CTO stop complaining about our AWS bill. Only took 3 outages at 2am to convince them we needed caching."

Upload Feature (Works Most of the Time)

You can upload your existing resume and we'll try to parse it. Works great for basic Word docs and simple PDFs. Fails spectacularly if you:

• Used tables for layout (why would you do this?)
• Have graphics or logos embedded
• Used some weird font that only exists on your computer
• Created it in Google Docs then exported (their PDF export is trash)
• Used any version of LibreOffice (formatting gets weird)
• Made it on Windows and you're viewing on Mac (fonts render differently)
• Exported from Figma (why are you making resumes in Figma?)

When it breaks, you'll know immediately. The parser will think your phone number is a date and your GitHub link is your job title. Just start from scratch - it's faster than fixing the mangled import.

ATS Optimization (The Boring But Important Stuff)

We've tested our format against the ATS systems that matter:

• Workday - Used by Slack, Netflix, dozens of startups
• Greenhouse - GitHub, Airbnb, Shopify
• Lever - Uber, Spotify, tons of Series A/B companies
• BambooHR - Smaller companies, still important

The formatting is intentionally boring. No graphics, no fancy fonts, no creative layouts. Just black text on white background that robots can read without having an aneurysm. If it looks like something from 1995, that's the point.

Specific Technical Guidance

Skills Section: Put the shit you're actually good at first, not alphabetically. Don't list every framework you've touched once in a tutorial. I don't care that you know jQuery - it's 2025.

Experience Descriptions: Every bullet point needs a fucking number. "Improved performance" means nothing. "Reduced memory usage by 40%" means something. "Fixed bugs" isn't an achievement - it's literally your job.

What Goes Wrong (And How to Fix It)

The upload breaks on your resume: Try a different PDF reader when exporting. Adobe PDFs parse better than Chrome's built-in PDF creator. If you exported from Google Docs, that's your problem right there - their PDF export is trash.

You can't fit everything on one page: Good. No one wants to read your 3-page novel about every project since college. Cut the old stuff. If you're still struggling, you're probably explaining too much instead of just showing results.

The Download Process

When you're done, you get a PDF immediately. No email signup, no payment, no "please wait 24 hours for processing." Click download, get file, apply for jobs.

That's it. No magic, no revolutionary technology. Just a resume builder that understands what developers actually do.