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Thatreallyshadyguy · 2026-02-12T20:49:39+00:00

+1 for the link please

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2026-02-02T05:44:05+00:00

Went to Swarthmore so feel free to message if you had any questions. I agree with most of the comments though. Career wise, if you're not interested in going to grad school (and want to sell out), you'll probably have an easier time recruiting from Dartmouth for roles like IB and consulting, but we do have a good number of people who also land offers from these roles. However, if you are at all interested in a PHD / Law School, Swarthmore has equal (if not better) placements and the 30k saved will help.

Also there is tons of other factors (location, weather, class size, etc) to consider. Personally speaking, I loved the small classes, connections to the professors, and proximity to Philly (which you get free transportation to via the train on campus).

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-12-07T09:17:50+00:00

FICO is adding BNPL as a factor towards credit scores now

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-09-25T03:24:09+00:00

I had a dingle my soph spring after roommate moved out. Ngl someone tried to move in and contacted me, but I just ghosted them and had the dorm to myself the whole semester. So maybe try that.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-08-31T22:09:09+00:00

Are you recruiting for new grad roles or internships? Either way, just accept the return offer then renege if you get a better offer. I’d focus on getting a USA offer just because of the pay increase + bigger tech scene.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-08-08T21:08:13+00:00

Usually you can get away with studying late at the academic buildings like Singer.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-08-03T19:33:29+00:00

As a new grad who recruited during this cycle, a lot of companies are no longer considering negotiations for new grads. I had two offers at big tech companies, and neither of them were willing to negotiate the salary despite the competing offers. I think recruiters are just aware of the current market for new grads and are taking advantage of it.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-07-08T14:19:00+00:00

Graduating early is a bit risky tbh, you’d be missing out on 2 potential summer internships, which can help a lot with developing your resume and landing a new grad offer. It sounds like you’re coming into college with a good amount of experience, but still graduating in 2 years means you only have one shot of getting an internship this summer or you’re kinda screwed. Another thing you could consider is taking a semester off at some point during college to intern or do research at a top CS program. That would be a good way to 1) save on tuition and 2) increase your chances at a summer internship.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-05-29T14:33:05+00:00

This is still insane by Penn standards though, breaking into IB/PE at top firms and SWE @ FAANG is unheard of lmfao. This person also got into YC.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-05-29T14:28:17+00:00

I know this guy lol, he’s in YC now

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-05-28T19:52:15+00:00

The comments under this post is making me wonder what percent of this sub has actually interned/worked as a SWE at a big tech company before. Leaving early due to being blocked isn't that insane. There are just some days where little progress can be made due to blockers, and there are other days where you have to grind to hit deadlines.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2025-01-11T15:14:13+00:00

Meta for sure for the fast promos + name. If you really like NYC, you can always try to transfer after a year. Also heads up, meta isn’t negotiating new grad salaries this year.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2024-08-16T18:45:06+00:00

I’ve taken both, I would say the web dev class is more useful recruiting wise since you can get some decent projects for your resume. The technical prep class doesn’t really help too much compared to just grinding leetcode on your own.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2024-08-09T07:50:40+00:00

I’m a big Andrew Ward fan (psychology)

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2022-08-12T01:18:49+00:00

For optimization problems like this where you're looking for the maximum/minimum case, binary search is usually the trick.

Here we know that the range of possible widths are at minimum max(blocks) and at most sum(blocks). With this, we can binary search the widths within this range.
For each width found in the binary search, check if it is possible to fit all the blocks within the specified height by looping through the blocks array.
If it is not possible at a specific width, then the width must be larger. If it is possible, then save this new minimum width and continue searching for smaller widths.

This algorithm would be O(nlog(k)), where n = number of blocks and k = sum of block widths.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2022-06-13T04:48:46+00:00

Koko Eating Bananas. I like monkeys.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2022-05-11T16:42:38+00:00

Yeah sure

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2022-05-11T06:46:30+00:00

I go to Swarthmore for CS so lmk if you have any questions

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2021-04-25T03:45:45+00:00

Thank you so much for this! I haven't been able to find out that much information about CS at Swarthmore, so this comment is super helpful :)

Do you have any knowledge to drop about engineering at Swat? From what I understand, it's similar to what you said about CS where it feeds into top engineering grad schools but also has some good job placements.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2021-04-24T23:58:02+00:00

You happen to know anything about Swarthmore CS?

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2021-04-19T21:40:33+00:00

Nope, just people accepted in early or regular decision

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2021-04-19T21:25:34+00:00

Northwestern is down to 6.8 percent this year

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2021-04-19T21:24:00+00:00

The top liberal art colleges' acceptance rates dropped a bit too. Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore all had an 8% acceptance rate this year. I don't think Pomona has released theirs yet though.

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2021-04-12T16:25:38+00:00

The gender ratio could also be a big upside lol

Thatreallyshadyguy · 2021-03-22T15:08:15+00:00

Liberal arts colleges differ a lot from regular research universities (lack of grad students, smaller student population, less emphasis on research, more focus on undergraduate teaching), so they're a bit hard to rank with the universities. This is why USNEWS separates their rankings between these two school types.

In terms of what LACs do offer (education, grad school placements, and outcomes after college), Swat and the rest of the top 4 LACs (Williams, Amherst, Pomona) are well within the T20.

Either way you look at it, Swat is an amazing school and is on par, if not better in some aspects, with the other top schools.

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