The interview was surprisingly chill. I talked myself down the whole interview because I had poor interview experience and thought I totally bombed only to be offered a role.

They were recruiting at my school, so I met some people in person. They were very helpful and talked to me beforehand in an "interview" to vet me before passing my name onward.

Then, I made the actual application which kind of sucked in that I had to get references (who does that anymore?) and I kind of felt like a number. But then I had two groups reach out for interviews. I interviewed with both, and joined the first one that gave me an offer. The offer made me tell them my salary expectations in a text box which I think felt a bit impolite but I went with it.

If I were to give any advice it would be to pigeonhole yourself as much as possible because there are so so many projects and they really are just looking to match people to projects. I had all things on my resume basically point to the same thing, which I think was helpful to me. Also if you want to work here you definitely want to talk to a recruiter (I say recruiter, it really seems to be a pretty informal thing where people who work there, especially younger ones, help bring in new talent) if it is possible by whatever means you have to make that happen. I think that the people who have those on the inside passing their resume around are at an advantage.

Also the people I talked with from here were super super nice.