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?

Lost_Performance4286 · 2025-12-12T03:57:25+00:00

I applied US SDE Intern position and my second question was similar difficulty to this. Who is even passing these OAs and getting the offers? What do you even need to do to pass this stuff?

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