BBoushe
TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult
•Created by BBoushe on 2/1/2024 in #questions
Internship | Realistic Advice
Thank you
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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult
•Created by BBoushe on 2/1/2024 in #questions
Internship | Realistic Advice
Yeah fair enough. To that extend before I mark this as solved. Are there any tips or advice you'd give to someone with a CS background that is wanting to do an internship?
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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult
•Created by BBoushe on 2/1/2024 in #questions
Internship | Realistic Advice
I mean more along the lines of architecture design and systems design now the actual coding and such (I know how things work in theory and design theory I'm also really good at pitching and presenting systems). Of course I failed to mention that I had an amazing team both times and we all worked together to win. The competitions we're focused more on systems design than actually product competitions and afterwards selling the idea to the committees.
On the second question of how I failed. I'll give you two examples. In one example we we're supposed to create the back-end logic of a web game in teams of 2 for the interview (where each team had a mentor and he evaluated our performance both teamwork wise and coding wise). The back-end was is python (I had applied for a java position but they put me in a python group). In the end we solved the challenge and we had presented the right logic to the mentor every step of the way, but when it came down to actually implementing what we were thinking in code he had to help us at each step. In the end it wasn't sufficient.
More recently, I got rejected after 2 interviews with HR and a final round interview with the CEO and founder of the company. We talked for around an hour and he really seemed to like me as a person. But when he got to what projects do you have to show for yourself. I blanked, I told him everything I had done to that point, but no actual web dev projects came up, since I haven't built any. In the end I got rejected after a week, saying it was my technical skills. From that experience I learned that I have no idea how to sell myself in terms of my technical skills, so gots to improve on that as well (have no idea how 🙂 )
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