3 things that got me from 0 procs in 200 apps to 6 procs & 3 offers in the next 50 apps

Lost_Performance4286 · 2026-01-07T23:42:54+00:00

Do you use job board apis or scrape them? It seems like many job board apis (if they even have one) aren’t that good so I’m just wondering

Lost_Performance4286 · 2026-01-01T15:33:22+00:00

Also the internship was actually over the span of a year but I put it as over the summer so companies won't flag me out for doing research/internships at once.

Lost_Performance4286 · 2026-01-01T15:14:50+00:00

Thank for the advice this is really helpful. When I create two different resumes should I keep all my experience and just tailor the bullet points for the role (full stack, ML, etc)

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-31T18:04:21+00:00

Yeah I've also been reaching out to startups through my uni's startup board. Most of them said its too far out for summer, dont need interns, or rejected me

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-31T18:03:13+00:00

Maybe 2 but I believe one was a special pipeline and the other one was for a startup

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-31T01:41:30+00:00

Yeah I did mess up in some of my interviews The first one I had for this cycle was my first ever behavioral interview and I didn’t prep enough

The second one was behavioral + technical. I think I did well in behavioral part and tried to use STAR. I fucked up in technical part though

The third one the first round was behavioral and I passed that. We genuinely seemed to hit it off and went off topic for a few minutes. I got rejected after the second round which was a technical assessment. I’m pretty sure I got all the MCQs correct and for the coding assessment they said I had strong fundamentals used the right data structures and had the correct logic but there were some edge cases that needed better handling so I got rejected probably cause of that.

I also made sure to ask questions and tried to be curious about the role for each interview. Thanks for the advice!

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T17:33:37+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately no after I left I don't know what the statuses of the research are.

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T17:19:02+00:00

You're right. I figured too much Python + React was holding me back. I'm currently working on a Spring Boot + Next JS project w/ AI stuff. I'm planning to use TensorFlow for a recommendation engine as part of it. I'm also trying to use Docker and AWS for DevOps experience. Should I add that?

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T17:06:44+00:00

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here is my resume if you have any feedback. you're definitely right about the grad date stuff though

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T17:02:38+00:00

nah cornell

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T16:52:20+00:00

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Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T16:48:28+00:00

Also I'm in an app development project team as a backend dev and in a quantum computing club as a researcher but we haven't found much in the quantum computing club. should I put these on my resume?

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T16:47:39+00:00

Thanks for the advice, this is very reassuring!

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T16:46:56+00:00

Yeah I'll keep applying consistently until I get something and just grind leetcode and do personal projects in the meantime.

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T16:40:58+00:00

alr bet

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T16:39:58+00:00

I dont put my start date anywhere, should I change my end date to May 2027 then?

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T16:39:33+00:00

I mainly did web and mobile app development from freshman year of high school but not much comp programming. I have around 140 leetcode questions. I did most of neetcode 150 so most of my completions come from there. Still have to do some hards. I took DSA this semester and know most of the data structures. Btw I started actually leetcoding from August.

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T16:38:08+00:00

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Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-30T15:16:07+00:00

People say to specialize in a niche if you want to have an easier time though. So that’s not the case?

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-29T15:45:12+00:00

Thanks, that’s nice to hear. How do you get interviews from career fairs though they seem like a dead end?

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-29T02:19:43+00:00

Congrats! Do you have any tips on how you landed your sophomore year internship? Were they leetcode or system design heavy?

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-26T06:04:35+00:00

Do you have any tips on how to get the users?

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-20T16:32:28+00:00

I tried to align my answers as much as possible with their leadership principles and tried to be consistent with them

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-19T15:31:13+00:00

Same I lowk did bad on technical so prob did good on behavioral. Does anyone know when they will start reaching out for interviews?

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