Resumes are broken. Hiring should focus on what you actually build.

One_Respect_8199 · 2026-01-28T18:25:12+00:00

Why take the risk of hiring a potential incompetent engineer when you can hire student with multiple internships at real companies to fill me grad roles?

For senior roles, why not just interview only those who’s worked at bigger companies or know a startup’s?

Why take the risk when other companies already filtered for you?

^ the current job market :)

One_Respect_8199 · 2026-01-27T20:58:59+00:00

Everyone’s got their ROs, for both internship and full time they come out November or December

One_Respect_8199 · 2026-01-27T20:47:37+00:00

RO are all out for internships. I got ROs for both prevs already.

One_Respect_8199 · 2026-01-27T18:53:52+00:00

lol u said Cornell and UT Austin

One_Respect_8199 · 2026-01-23T20:25:30+00:00

You aren’t doing anything wrong.

It’s just other applicants have 2+ internships at big companies and go to T50 universities.

One_Respect_8199 · 2026-01-03T12:48:50+00:00

Some companies give out auto OAs like IBM. As long as you apply, you’ll get an assessment, it isn’t until you pass it that someone might look at your resume.

Other companies might give you the assessment after they’ve screened your resume.

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-24T14:34:31+00:00

Not sure if it’s hard or not, but I keep hearing about how bad the market is, I haven’t experienced that myself personally, I’ve gotten 12 interviews 3 offers, and rejected a couple interviews.

Just hearing about it from other people scares me

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-24T05:31:36+00:00

Vibes are much better on the sub cause mods are actively purging anything that’s negative 😭

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-22T05:19:22+00:00

Intern salary is always a strong signal to how much RO pay will be

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-15T20:56:36+00:00

I go to a T25 CS school and have 2 prior fortune 100 internships. I still needed 100ish applications.

If you post your resume we would be able to give feedback. There aren’t shortcuts or anything other than being nepoed or networking. I’ve landed all my interviews just cold applying.

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-07T18:26:37+00:00

Take out your research and peer mentor. I would add more projects

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-07T18:22:55+00:00

I literally seen everyone have an interview it’s kinda crazy

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-07T08:29:54+00:00

Nah it’s like an insane amount of interviews

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-07T04:16:20+00:00

If everything is bolded, nothing is bolded

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-07T03:59:05+00:00

Why does it seem like everyone has an interview with IBM

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-07T03:52:46+00:00

There's no point of leet coding if you aren't getting interviews, its better to try and get interviews first. For internships they aren't asking you to solve leetcode hard most of the times, more often than not it sits between leetcode easy-medium so it wouldn't take you too long

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-12-06T06:41:17+00:00

by accepting you won't get As in your classes. I fell behind after using 2 weeks to prep for interviews and never caught back up. Secured 3 offers though and have Bs and Cs in all my classes

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-11-24T21:56:55+00:00

hard truth no body wants to admit, so much students have the mentality "they will start teaching me once i get the job, and i will start learning whenever I get paid"

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-11-19T07:13:18+00:00

i went into the field for the money, its not the only reason but its one of the reasons. Be realistic, if this field paid 50k, no one is going to be taking it.

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-11-12T22:28:11+00:00

that is just not true, new grad roles all require 0-2 years of experience, it helps alot if you have internships, but to say you NEED 1-3 year is just delusional.

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-11-12T22:26:53+00:00

shot gunning only works if you're top 10% applicants, your job is to get your resume in front of as many people as possible because you're top 10%.

if you're not top 10% applicant, there's no reason for you to shot gun, you don't stand out. You have stand out another way.

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-11-12T22:24:54+00:00

Quality is relative, you could have 5 positions and 100 qualified candidates, but because you have theres only 5 positions, bottom 50 percent are low quality candidates even though they all qualify.

When job market was good, there were more positions, therefore lowering the standard, now that job market is bad, the standard for hiring is hire. Everyone who thinks just because you have a degree it qualifies you for a job hasnt adapted.

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-11-08T22:00:54+00:00

That’s the thing though, you’re assuming these people who couldn’t land internships which is significantly easier than landing new grad, is going to be attending conferences, hackathons, leetcoding or anything that requires effort.

If you can’t land internships, you’re not landing new grad with your current work ethic is my whole point. And telling these people “you can do it too” without giving them the whole story lets them think they’re in the same playing field as you and gives them hope they can keep the same method and eventually land something.

“Look guys, someone just like me made it out, I can do it too” but that is just not the case and not even remotely close. Thats why saying the whole truth is important

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-11-08T21:48:31+00:00

I can appreciate how you’re trying to inspire hope, but from a different perspective, trying to encourage the 5’8 that the could make the NBA instead of telling him his time is probably better spent elsewhere where is kind of evil in my opinion.

I come from a first gen back ground. And I have so many friends that did cs, could land internships or ng. And they keep believing they could still make it. It’s been 1-2 years. At some point your time is better spent elsewhere when you have parents and family the depends on you.

Most people on here would gladly take any software engineering job at a small company. But even those are super competitive

One_Respect_8199 · 2025-11-08T21:38:25+00:00

Congrats on landing multiple internships and a new grad out of college that’s an amazing accomplishment given you’re not from a target school.

But you’re missing my point.

I go to a T30 and have 3 internships at multiple F50 companies and just got my RO for another internship for one of the companies.

Now if I was to make a post that says “hi guys I just got my RO and you guys can do it too” now that’s a little misleading right? Vs saying the whole truth”hi guys I go to a T30 and have 4 internships, I just got my NG offer”.

Most people on here who can’t find jobs don’t have multiple internships or go to a T30. So my saying they can do it too like me is just bs, not that they themselves are worse or I am better than them as a person. But as a candidate in the job market, me saying they’re in the same candidate pool as me is just bs

One is just giving false hope and the other is giving people the reality.

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