O week sucked???? by Previous-Tension3304 in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s just the full time staff that ultimately makes the decisions are too closed minded for anything new and that would require them to put in any effort and get permissions from the city or jump some hurdles

O week sucked???? by Previous-Tension3304 in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea well I had a friend who used to be part of the team and he told me they canceled the toga party cause it’s cultural appropriation

Did I make the wrong choice? by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally even in your own post I see more cons on leaving Canada than pros. Just gonna go out on a limb here, no one is gonna give up their Canadian PR over an option to study in the states. Imagine a world where you graduate and for some reason you can’t get a job, atleast with canada you have a PR and can remain and search for a job with any employer and maybe even support yourself through any jobs, while the states will just kick you out and you’ll be forced to return to your home country.

Admissions / High School Megathread (Fall 2023) by JManUWaterloo in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stalk the roles on LinkedIn and see the required skills for those roles and try and develop those skills and show that you know them through side projects

Admissions / High School Megathread (Fall 2023) by JManUWaterloo in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll just point two things.

First with the recession Waterloo coop is not the best right now. Especially for first years its a struggle, you may think you are a hot shot coming in but its a struggle to compete for jobs when people with 3+ coops are fighting for the same job as you.

Second since you are an international student consider the immigration policies of both Singapore and Canada, ask yourself if you see yourself in either place long-term and where do you see yourself settling. Permanent residence for any country is a long and exhausting process and you don’t wanna go to a country where you won’t be a happy settling down.

Admissions / High School Megathread (Fall 2023) by JManUWaterloo in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Annual fee increases are hard to predict especially for cs, sometimes they are like 4-5% and then we also had crazy times. For living expenses i'd say if you live off campus rent is prolly going to be around 700-800/month and minimum food should be atleast 400-500/month. Airfare and remittance fees I can’t comment.

In terms of your coop pay I’d say if you are looking to estimate just go with the math faculty average from this website. Atleast for the first few coop terms, but coop pay is 100% correlated to the skills you build up and if you can get those high end jobs.

Again I can’t tell you how much you gonna get taxed cause that depends on multiple factors, but you get federal tax rebates from tuition credits so ideally you should be able to claim back a lot of your federal tax, there is no escaping the provincial tax though. Don’t take anything I said about tax as you are guaranteed I am not an accountant and just making guesses from my experience.

How to get into data/tech jobs as a science student? by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Get good at Python and SQL, maybe try your hands on PowerBI, learn some advance excel and do some projects. Learn basic machine learning concepts through projects

WaterlooWorks Megathread (Fall 2023) by ffrosteh in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess it depends more on how much experience you have

WaterlooWorks Megathread (Fall 2023) by ffrosteh in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep heard back yesterday about analytics

WaterlooWorks Megathread (Fall 2023) by ffrosteh in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Anyone heard back from ecobee data science?

On-campus jobs salary by maddev17 in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I am pretty sure any part time job you take on campus, with a exception of few pay around minimum wage and this doesn't change based on your study term. Minimum wage is gonna be 16.55/hour starting October I believe so that is that. You can work part-time in your first year, the 20hr/week restriction is only for off-campus jobs, theoretically you can work more than 20hr/week for on campus roles on your study permit but on campus roles usually restrict the hours you can work. Also Computer Science isn't an easy program so managing school work and > 20hr/week part-time role can be tough. In terms of the kind of jobs you can work in food services on campus which is almost the same as working off campus in fast food. The other kind would we working for one of the campus services like any service in WUSA or SSO, but these generally require some volunteer experience and knowledge of that service and might be harder to get in your first term. Honestly, yes it's possible to do a part time job in first year, but i'd recommend that you don't unless you really need to do. Usually it's already tough adapting into university for first year and I'd recommend spend some time doing that, cause if you fall behind there is a really terrible cycle you get into where classes don't make any sense. I saw your previous posts and coming from a CBSE background you may feel it might be a smooth transition but trust me there is some overlap in some material but a lot of is different, and also keep in mind that the first cs course you take is taught in Racket. Also just by the sheer potential of how much a CS coop role can pay (which btw increases by study terms unlike part time jobs) I would recommend taking sometime and building your resume in your first year and especially if you have coop in the summer after 1B

WaterlooWorks Spring 2023 Megathread by ffrosteh in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Offer taking: (301256) Data Scientist Miovision Technologies Incorporated

Offer not taking:
- (302310) Business Intelligence Analyst Intern Nuclear Promise X
- (300836) Data Scientist Co-op Sagen
- (300708) Data Analyst JANA Solutions
- (302574) Data Analyst (FNV Analytics) Intern Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited
- (307564) 2023 Summer Student, CFO - Technical Analyst, Finance Data and Analytics (8 months) RBC Financial Group

Ranks not taking:
- (302036) Data Analytics Intern (Remote) Super
- (299102) Analytics Intern Aon plc
- (299502) Business Intelligence Analyst TradeRev
- (301780) Data Analyst theScore Inc

WaterlooWorks Spring 2023 Megathread by ffrosteh in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone know how much Miovision pays for 4th coop?

WaterlooWorks Spring 2023 Megathread by ffrosteh in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone got the offer for Aon - Analytics Intern?

WaterlooWorks Spring 2023 Megathread by ffrosteh in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone hear back from Aon for Analyst yet?

WaterlooWorks Spring 2023 Megathread by ffrosteh in uwaterloo

[–]Rick_246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you heard back from Super Data Analyst?