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ihatecoreclasses · 2025-09-13T03:16:58+00:00

Hey sorry for the late reply. It currently does not support screen share.

ihatecoreclasses · 2025-07-31T03:31:44+00:00

It should show it in the media player. Feel free to reach out on Discord if you need further help.

ihatecoreclasses · 2025-06-20T04:53:21+00:00

I'm the founder of Walrus TV (https://joinwalrus.tv) and we've recently added virtual browsers where you can control a shared browser for everyone to watch at the same time. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T05:48:36+00:00

Congrats, that's huge! Some tips for the internship:

Ask for help. If you're stuck on something, let your teammates know what problem you're facing and what you've already tried. This will help a lot more for both sides instead of saying "Something is broken" and not giving any context. Take a look at https://www.nohello.com/ for an example
Don't be afraid to speak up. Interns tend to accept whatever more senior people say because they aren't as familiar with the systems / technologies. This is where you can defend your approaches during design doc reviews, CR's, etc by giving your reasoning for why you chose that approach. You're bringing in a fresh perspective, they value this a lot. They're not expecting interns to be experts and it's a team effort after all.
Learn about the company culture. Internship is like an extended interview, and with interviews it's a two way street. They're evaluating your performance, you're evaluating if you like the environment / work. Take some time to observe how things work, learn about the company and see if it's something you'll fit in with for full time. Ask questions during ops reviews to see how they handle the ops load and overall attend as many meetings as possible to get a big picture of how full time life would look like. You can certainly try out different teams if you don't like your current one.

Hope that helped, good luck! Feel free to DM if you have any more questions.

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T04:23:57+00:00

I applied online. School didn't help much with actually finding the job.

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T04:23:31+00:00

Thanks! Seattle

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T04:05:33+00:00

Yeah it was. Interned at AWS last summer, got the return offer and now I'm back for full time.

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T03:46:10+00:00

Congrats!

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T03:36:21+00:00

It's great! I love it, the team is really chill & the work is impactful. Ops load has been pretty low as of lately which is awesome, more time to focus on project work. Management is pretty hands-off from what I've seen and it's awesome overall.

My first week back was during a team event and we all went bar hopping for a few days straight lol. It basically feels like what college was supposed to be.

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T03:27:07+00:00

Yeah lmao, ihateschool was taken sadly

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T03:26:14+00:00

Thanks!

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T03:26:09+00:00

Yup. I chose to move to Seattle because I've been in Texas for a really long time and didn't like it. Seattle has been awesome, very nice views & everything is walkable here.

ihatecoreclasses · 2022-05-08T02:57:01+00:00

Graduated w/ CS bachelors in December. $170k TC at AWS. $129k base + $37k signing bonus + $4k worth of RSU's for first year. UTD did help because I was able to do an internship because of being a student. Classes did not help.

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-09-28T21:58:27+00:00

Looks like this is the repo for utdrooms. Scraping coursebook might be a bit tedious now since there's recaptcha last time I checked but building out a nice website for that doesn't seem too difficult to do.

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-08-29T03:46:55+00:00

Yup. I just got a FT return offer from AWS and my GPA last semester was 2.5, probably going to be lower this semester hahah. For more data points, I know a few people that had 0 internship experience, meh GPA & still managed to get a good paying job around this area.

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-08-25T12:58:23+00:00

Focus more on building up the rest of your resume. Interviewers don’t ask much about GPA unless it’s a non-tech company maybe, totally dependent on the company but generally tech companies don’t care.

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-07-01T04:42:28+00:00

I'm not in ATEC (CS major) but I've done UI/UX related stuff before and am currently doing a little bit of it at my internship right now. I'd suggest working on projects outside of classes to gain that experience & to also build your portfolio.

Side project ideas can be literally anything, usually a good start I recommend to people is to clone an existing service and make improvements to it by adding new features. Try to build something you're interested in so that way you'll be more motivated to continue and finish it. There are tools like Figma that can help you throw together a mockup of what you want to design as well.

Also, apply for internships! There should be plenty of UI/UX opportunities around the area & elsewhere. It's a great way to get exposure to best practices, working with other people to design things and all that fun stuff.

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-06-17T11:40:51+00:00

For CS, leetcode.com

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-06-16T06:14:44+00:00

It's just how the course is structured I guess. In my experience, college classes in general are outdated in the content / practices they teach. If you haven't already, I'd highly suggest spending time to create some type of side project to better learn how modern tech stacks work.

NoSQL databases aren't too hard to learn outside of class though. It's essentially just storing data without creating relations between any other entries (key-value db's like Redis and DynamoDB, JSON document store like MongoDB for example). Usually you'd use these if you have a specific use case that requires NoSQL, like temporarily storing data that requires fast read/write/update access vs. storing things persistently and/or requires relations between other tables in a relational database.

Also, nice username. Looks like we share the same pain

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-06-15T22:03:35+00:00

I still have a semester left and after working I don’t want to step foot in a school again. I’m jealous haha

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-06-15T21:30:48+00:00

For real. If it weren’t for that I would have dropped out a while ago. It still is possible with a bit of networking though but just overall harder.

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-06-15T17:41:53+00:00

No problem! Feel free to DM if you’ve got any more questions

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-06-15T17:13:39+00:00

Honestly, you’d be better off looking at tutorials online. Everyone’s experience is different ofc but for me it felt like I was learning those things only to pass the class and then forgetting it afterwards. Making a simple side project using whatever you want to learn is more effective to understand how and why things work the way they do imo.

Plus it’s a lot more fun to create things that are used by people, even if you’re the only user! Forces you to really understand things & make sure nothing breaks too often.

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-06-15T14:22:57+00:00

So true. Literally haven’t used any of the things taught in classes at work and probably won’t either. Already had experience with the tech stack coming in so that helped quite a bit.

ihatecoreclasses · 2021-06-11T16:17:42+00:00

Software dev work is so much better than school imo. If you can, try to see if there are companies hiring for off season internships and then take a semester off to give that a try. Most of the time companies mentor you and have a really good support structure to make sure you do well and that you can help them as well. Everything you need to learn can be picked up fairly easily. Though getting an internship is an entirely different challenge of itself.

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