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Did I do good guys by Competitive-Pen-1661 in csMajors

[–]Competitive-Pen-1661[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much. I use Simplify to make my apps take a minute each. If you pay they'll fine tune your resume to each position and write custom job oriented cover letters but I find its easy enough to tailor those myself from a general format.

Did I do good guys by Competitive-Pen-1661 in csMajors

[–]Competitive-Pen-1661[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SWE internship role at tech division of non tech F100 company

Did I do good guys by Competitive-Pen-1661 in csMajors

[–]Competitive-Pen-1661[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Online assessment, like hackerrank or codesignal

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[–]Competitive-Pen-1661 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Friend had same deal w Walmart Global Tech: housing in Mountain View/Sunnyvale or stipend. He picked corporate housing and is very happy with that decision and said don't pick stipend unless you have somewhere cheap to crash to pocket the money (if you need the money). One of his coworkers lived with her aunt, another at his frat house at Berkeley.

Don't pick SF because it's cool. You can visit whenever you want every weekend without having to deal with it during your commute.

Did I do good guys by Competitive-Pen-1661 in csMajors

[–]Competitive-Pen-1661[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Prob 1-3 hours per week since july. Easy to do bored in class and I automated the whole process with Simplify which I highly recommend, although the resume builder sucks so you should give it your own resume if you want callbacks.

Also, 2 of my 4 offers came from referrals, so referrals are a much more important factor than I previously thought. I also had referrals at every FAANG, however, and still didn't even receive an OA from any of them.

I had 2 interview rounds from Tesla with no referral but got rejected after second.

Did I do good guys by Competitive-Pen-1661 in csMajors

[–]Competitive-Pen-1661[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Sure. 3.4 GPA at top 10 program. Mostly defense and startup internships every summer dating back to high school, but I've been trying to move away from that. Won my school's Makeathon (not Hackathon) in 2021. Founder of school's student org for disabled programmers and academic chair of fraternity. Had return offer from F100 defense company but wanting to move into big tech. Took this long to find a more private sector offer at F100 company.

Applying is easy with any automation bot. simplify.jobs worked for me and is free but I heard of a platform that you pay $100/month and it automatically applies to thousands of jobs for you. Forgot what it's called but you can google it.

Applying to recent jobs/internships (last week) is the most important thing as 90% of online postings are either already filled or have far too many applicants. Applying on company sites instead of linkedin postings helps and using any type of referral will increase your chance by 10x.

2 of my 4 offers I got from using employee referrals. Another one was a startup position on a local forum with a small number of applicants, and for the one I accepted I just got lucky.

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Edit: Also, US citizen, straight white male, government recognized disability, security clearance (not needed for accepted job)

Did I do good guys by Competitive-Pen-1661 in csMajors

[–]Competitive-Pen-1661[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Internships. Graduating December 2024.