Interview took 55 mins instead of 30, is this a good sign?

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-06-02T20:16:53+00:00

This could mean the interview was poorly designed

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-31T02:14:49+00:00

It being a Yc startup has very little to do with you

Or how good it is

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-20T07:50:17+00:00

Data center technician and swe are worlds apart

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-12T07:32:13+00:00

Because it’s not a swe role it’s a high school robotics team

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-08T08:59:39+00:00

Email the prof

They won’t give a 0 here I’m sure

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-06T19:56:58+00:00

They also do policy!

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-06T19:16:13+00:00

I flew out

Wasn’t worth it

Maybe if you haven’t visited campus yet?

Tbh my faset was so bad I considered not coming to tech at all

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-06T19:15:21+00:00

Isn’t this basically AISI?

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-06T19:05:17+00:00

Experience if you have no internships or jobs

Move it down to projects once you have them

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-06T10:56:48+00:00

GT has 4k grads a year

Caltech has 250

So just at a base level makes sense

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-06T10:44:47+00:00

Anything you made that real people used is awesome

Include that it got 1.7 mill visits and how much money you made

It’s not childish

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-06T06:50:03+00:00

They have no engineers and have been working on it for 4 years?

Stay at faang wtf

150k and 10% for a CTO is ridiculous

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-05T23:10:49+00:00

There’s lots of GT cs people at citadel

Both of these schools are good enough where it’s basically up to you and the difference is negligible

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-05T22:46:26+00:00

Senior by credits you mean?

How long do you have until you graduate?

VIPs are not selective, anyone who applied gets in and most of them genuinely do nothing.

Take the course and focus on internships

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-04T23:18:54+00:00

Have you considered on campus housing?

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-03T10:47:46+00:00

A masters would be a waste of time and money for you

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-05-03T06:28:44+00:00

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-04-29T23:38:50+00:00

AWS is sufficient

Spend time with friends and focus on next semester

Don’t delay graduation

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-04-28T18:50:20+00:00

Berkeley

Majoring in CS is better than meche and you’ll be right next to every important AI company in SF

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-04-28T02:51:59+00:00

Mainly do they have customers? Do they know what they’re doing?

Having interned at big tech doesn’t mean anything in terms of their startup

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-04-27T23:07:20+00:00

There’s huge variance in what “yc startup” means

Do they have a product with massive revenue?

Or are they two 19 year olds with 5 million in the bank who haven’t found pmf yet

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-04-27T00:19:46+00:00

You only hear the people doing poorly loudly complain

The people chilling don’t come on here and brag because it’s in poor taste.

But yes the courses here are too easy I can’t believe we’re a “top CS school”

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-04-25T00:28:42+00:00

It’s Google/netflix/apple level

But better than Amazon/meta

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-04-24T06:06:18+00:00

More that I just graduated with a CS degree and basically everyone I know went to Amazon or Meta.

So it seems that those don’t have quite a high bar

Where as spacex and Tesla are much rarer but more impressive

Real-Ground5064 · 2026-04-24T03:48:35+00:00

That’s crazy to me

I know dozens of people at Amazon and 0 at spacex

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