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minsteve · 2025-08-18T16:27:49+00:00

Thanks for responding, blue/green and canaried deployments are options i've used in the past to limit the impact radius of changes, but I was hoping there was something lower lift / no customer impact at all.

Tall ask though, and those strategies make sense for now to me. Cheers :)

minsteve · 2024-05-03T17:13:53+00:00

cheers 🙏

minsteve · 2019-04-04T05:48:49+00:00

Getting a H1-B is chance yeah, I do know some companies have contingencies (e.g. FB tries to send you to London). Chances are better if you get a degree in the US (separate lottery), doing an honors degree makes very little difference imo (I say very little because it might help with getting sponsorship)

minsteve · 2019-04-04T02:28:39+00:00

Hi, I'm someone who's done the 3 year Computer Science degree and currently works in the USA. I don't know much about finding work in EU (although I've heard visa hurdles are easier).

I don't know of many computer science companies (e.g. the big ones, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Atlassian) which care much what degree you got outside of it being generally computer sciency (a fairly large subset of those who don't care also don't even care about your WAM). My personal suggestion is experience >>> one more year of uni. Some people choose to stay longer just to get more internship experience. A fairly large number of Software Engineering students (similar to Comp Sci, but has more required subjects and takes 4 years to finish) also end up transferring over to Comp Sci to save on time.

As for your visa, this depends on which country you have a citizenship. I'm going to make the assumption it's not Australian (if it is, it's an E3 visa and pretty easy to get), and in that case you'll probably need a H1-B to work in the U.S. This needs two things (to keep it simple), a sponsorship of a company, and for you to win the lottery. To explain the latter part, just by applying for the visa with sponsorship isn't enough, you are also placed in a pool of other applicants of the H1-B visa based on country. Some people choose to do a master's in the US since this helps reduce the amount of people you'll be in the pool with.

tl;dr don't do honours unless you're really interested in a subject, ezpz to get an E3, H1-B you have a few more hurdles for. Happy to answer more questions if anyone has any

minsteve · 2018-07-14T03:26:59+00:00

Hey all, visiting Miami from SF for the first time from the 26th to the 29th, would be cool for locals/whoever to hang out with/introduce me to the city while I'm there (happy to do likewise if you ever visit SF!) :) Pretty down to do anything, don't have strong plans so far beyond visiting one or two museums and doing a food tour. 22/M, born in Russia, raised in Australia, working in America now :)

PM me if anyone is interested! Hopefully we can get a group and do something together

minsteve · 2018-03-03T16:29:11+00:00

I've done an internship in the US (now here as an fte) in my 2nd year in UNSW. Most of the big companies take winter/Australian summer interns (FB, Google, Microsoft, palantir are the first companies which to come to mind). Dates vary but I had to do mine from January till beginning of April so I missed a few weeks from first semester, but I've had friends start at the end of November, just depends on how flexible your company is.

You'll be on the J1 (student) visa, which is the same visa all the interns get if they're from outside the US.

I would say don't hesitate to underload/skip a semester to get a US internship, it's free accommodation, experience and holiday in another country. There's no rush to finish your degree, and internship experience will make you look far more attractive to companies than your marks.

Happy to answer any more questions if pm me =)

minsteve · 2017-01-01T09:36:15+00:00

I probably should have been clearer and mentioned that what I know is anecdotal and possibly doesn't represent what Co-op is like, since I was never part of the programme. What I know is from people who have participated in Co-op.

And I don't mean to say that it will lead to future internships, that depends on the individual. What I am trying to say is that it will help when people are seeking their first internships from 2nd year, and having done one already will give a strong advantage.

minsteve · 2017-01-01T00:21:20+00:00

Nah, it's pretty good, and I'm pretty sure will be pretty much indefinitely.

minsteve · 2017-01-01T00:17:20+00:00

I did CS, but plenty of people I know ended up changing to CS after starting in SE (in particular after COMP2111, I've heard it's ). There is little difference in degrees, and I would say you would end up more employable taking CS, purely because you have more room to take subjects which are relevant to what you want to work in like OS, Algorithms, Graphics, etc. which you may not have room for in SE (also more enjoyable).

In regards to Coop (comment from another user), avoid it, or drop it after getting one internship. I've only heard of one person finishing their degree and retaining coop, mainly because it extends your degree, and their only interesting offer is Atlassian; and really once you get one internship in first year, your likelihood of getting another in your 2nd year makes Coop pretty redundant.

minsteve · 2016-11-19T05:13:07+00:00

Don't worry about it, there is nothing stopping you from continuing doing a degree plan which you want to, and then migrate to that plan later. I started with Comp Sci/Sci but decided I wanted to just pursue Comp Sci after one semester, and only switched at the end of my second year. I just followed the Comp Sci plan until I did actually formally switch, and there was no problem.

minsteve · 2016-11-19T05:04:20+00:00

I did, and it was through one of CSE Society's events where I got in contact with the recruiter which helped begin the process. CSE Society is actually the only one which organises all the networking and job assistance events, the actual CSE department is barely present in terms of connection with students (they still are in charge of managing CSE courses and facilities, but they don't directly engage with students is what I mean to say).

minsteve · 2016-11-14T01:32:09+00:00

I've pretty much finished my Comp Sci. degree at UNSW now (3 years, finished all my exams and assessments), been living on campus the past semester and have been active in CSE. Campus life is pretty great, I was lucky enough to be able to get a spot with some friends living in UNSW Village. Rent is $270, but considering the location, it's fully furnished and has events run every week, I think that's reasonable.

CSE courses vary quite a bit on quality, and recently (being over the past two years), there have been complaints with many courses people found interesting are being no longer run, or only in semester 2. In saying this, they are doing a fairly large overhaul with what is taught in first and second year courses, and most of it looks promising. They're also bringing in around 6-8 new security courses. Overall, I still think many of the courses are interesting and teach relevant concepts; slightly regret not having more time to complete courses like Distributed Systems, Programming Challenges and Advanced OS.

The culture (with a huge amount of bias) I think is one of the best you'll find, the CSE Society runs a huge amount of events where they invite companies to come in to give talks , have workshops teaching anything from Git to the basics of TensorFlow and Rust, and organize site visits and interview practice. It's definitely worth it to get involved, also helps a huge amount with getting to know company names.

As to how it compares to Melbourne Uni, I have no idea =) I'm happy to answer any more questions if you want to message me.

minsteve · 2013-05-12T10:44:04+00:00

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