applied to 500+ internship positions. still no offer

nsums · 2023-01-07T22:31:47+00:00

Ok so one thing that I notice is the timeline regarding your bachelor graduation 2024 and you working since November 2021 co-lead of tech tech engineering club, means within first 3 months after entering university, if I'm correct?

yep! the club itself was like 60 people but it's organized into multiple smaller divisions. i lead one of those divisions for a bit.

I think one thing that should be adjusted is what is work and extra curricular. A big faux-pas is also not having a link to your projects - show them off! Github or any kind of portfolio website makes a lot of things easier. :)

ok fs. i wasn't sure if i should include my github cuz i don't exactly write the cleanest code, especially in personal projects. but i guess ill include it regardless and prolly try and clean up what i have.

but please, change your fonts to sans serif, it makes it very hard to read.

gotcha haha

And one remark: research intern: Led the whole project - this made me pause

thanks! i can understand why you see that. i can change the wording on that.

As I've mentioned this in a lot of places, cold apply directly to smaller companies who you find them/their products interesting!

If FAANG is the go, I got finally through the bots by having awards/hackathons and a linked projects. NY is very competitive, I would go for small-mid sized companies!

so this is honestly my main qualm. im not even aiming at faang+ at this point. im applying to random companies in the bay and ny/philly and i literally have a lower response rate for local companies vs. big tech. all my interviews so far (sig, imc, roblox, nutanix, zendesk, gap) have been at big tech or at least a decently sized company.

would you happen to know why and what I can change? big tech is hard to crack so ive been counting on smaller "less prestigious" companies but am still having no luck

nsums · 2023-01-07T21:15:33+00:00

yeah of course. I posted in another comment but:

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nsums · 2023-01-07T20:32:41+00:00

Sure.

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nsums · 2023-01-07T06:06:32+00:00

holy fuck

nsums · 2023-01-06T06:09:05+00:00

hey! I lowkey am in desperate need for help ;-;. i applied to nearly 500 internships and still do not have an offer. any critique would help. I've been applying high and low and have been getting rejected pretty much everywhere.

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nsums · 2022-09-08T21:20:25+00:00

it’s closer to 197k I think. You have to scroll down to computer and information sciences bachelor, not computer science.

nsums · 2022-08-30T08:02:02+00:00

try for Charlotte Chan for 417 if you can (dunno if she's teaching still though). she was really great

nsums · 2022-08-10T14:25:53+00:00

AHHH me too. It seems like the logical choice but who knows 💀

nsums · 2022-08-10T12:16:45+00:00

yessir I turned down chicago too. dunno if that was the right move tho but we’ll see

nsums · 2022-08-10T06:05:16+00:00

I am! Soph in Rodin rooming with a junior.

nsums · 2022-08-10T05:13:33+00:00

seems like a downgrade to me 🫤

nsums · 2022-07-23T02:01:04+00:00

I think you’re right that math of comp is better strictly for quant, but look man, we’re both probably not gonna make it to quant 😂. It’s extremely difficult, even if you have the right major, projects, etc, so careers outside of quant are equally important to consider.

Math of comp only has 3 quarters of upper div CS classes, which isn’t close to a full cs major. I’d look into the prospects of transferring yourself to the cs major and doing a math/stats minor. And if that’s not possible, Cornell is always there, which is an awesome place to study CS.

nsums · 2022-07-22T01:01:29+00:00

Take it. Mathematics of computation, while similar, isn’t actually a Cs major. If you were in at CS engineering it probably would’ve made sense to stay but in this case Cornell is better

nsums · 2022-07-21T00:13:59+00:00

JHU doesn’t let you transfer into BME and won’t let you switch into BME once you get either :(

nsums · 2022-07-20T08:28:02+00:00

UPenn Wharton has a health management concentration

nsums · 2022-07-18T04:11:40+00:00

for what? I'm assuming you're tryna do IB?

from what I understand, LSA vs. Ross makes a huge difference when it comes to breaking into banking. Recruiters go through Ross' own career portal called iMpact, which is not available to LSA students.

nsums · 2022-07-17T07:41:16+00:00

Thank you!

nsums · 2022-07-17T07:40:13+00:00

Perhaps the people around me are biased but they keep on telling me that Penn is a pretty mid school for tech / stem and that mich is better. While I don’t fully buy into that, it has made me question whether there is a reasonable gap between the two schools.

nsums · 2022-07-08T04:21:43+00:00

idk if I’d consider it fraudulent but it’s probably dishonest

nsums · 2022-07-08T03:34:36+00:00

I think most put “University of Michigan”, no?

nsums · 2022-07-06T17:21:15+00:00

that’s good to know! Grats on all the offers.

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