2021_summer

[woven wren]

Has anyone interviewed or interned at quantcast

How wassssiit

[lime heron]

I feel less depressed than yesterday so progress I guess. Had my 1:1 today and my manager just gave me an overview of how the meetings will work and a high level of the tech stack but it wasn't anything crazy though I did feel awkward

How's yours going

[muted apex]

Very overwhelmed lol

[charred roost]

Going good

Finally met the rest of my team today in a standup meeting

And actually got some work done

[bronze echo]

hi folks. looking for a crazy summer internship for a reason to live in a far away city for a month

or two

what are my@iptions

will try as hard as possible to get it done

v motivated

[little fiber]

for this summer or next summer

if it's for this one you're probably out of luck

[bronze echo]

this summer but like i said willing to go to great depths

[restive falcon]

gonna be a little hard to find stuff this summer

i would recommend hitting up startups

email like crazy

[bronze echo]

startups are unlikely to provide housing reimbursement, correct?

i’ve tried all the startup sites already but i was pretty selective

how do I stand out when I’m working with volume rather than specific interest

do i just make a super good resume and just trust?

[restive falcon]

yea but pretty much all the big companies are full rn

good resume + cold email

[bronze echo]

interesting. do ppl post emails often? I haven’t seen many emails

just the applications

[charred roost]

Emails aren't posted here just so that recruiters don't get flooded with 20k emails from this server lol

[sacred glade]

glad to hear u are feeling better! why depressed?

i’m doing alright. a bit overwhelmed by the docs and codebase but my team’s good about me asking for help and we had an onboarding workshop to help us familiarize with the tools

[lime heron]

I just felt overwhelmed as well and I kind of shut down when that happens plus I was (and am) super fucking sleep deprived but I'm really hoping for a good night sleep tonight

Ah that's nice your team is good and also very good you're asking for help when needed! I think everyone's a little overwhelmed tbh there's just so much to take in the first week

[golden ginkgo]

where u at

[coral geode]

Gs

[golden ginkgo]

nice

i know like 10 people interning there

they all goated though

[remote geyser]

If it’s a paid internship, the pay should be enough to cover housing but that’s your decision to make

[bronze echo]

understood. thanks for the followup @remote geyser

[lime heron]

So I have an optional story mapping meeting today and my manager also said I'm free to attend agile meetings whenever I'm available. Does it show initiative to attend? It's my first week so I'm trying to get through all the training videos and get my environment set up but would appreciate any input from y'all on what is best practice

[green salmon]

Y'all see the word contiguous in a leetcode question

First pattern y'all think of

[lapis summit]

u should go imo

u can get ur environment set up later

or after work ends

[lime heron]

You think? Even though I havent even started coding so will be lost the entire meeting?

[lapis summit]

i learn better thru examples which is why i try to attend as many meetings as possible

but iss up to u

[lime heron]

Fair point

[hexed wave]

Sliding window

[green salmon]

Hmmm

Bet bet

Wb prefix sum

[frosty ginkgo]

kadanes

its that max subarray sum thing

[muted apex]

Sliding window / DP

[hexed wave]

I mean I can’t do LC or the stuff needed for the job

[thorny gorge]

just attend and do ur setup stuff in the background

agile meetings early on give you a sense of how the team works

and youll know what to do for the next time you actually need to say something

[runic tinsel]

if a HM posts a link to an application and I apply on the link, is it ok to ping the HM directly and mention something like "I've applied and look forward to next steps"?

[abstract wagon]

yeah

could even go a step further and message them

[runic tinsel]

yeah was thinking of messaging

[round cloud]

yes. absolutely do it

[runic tinsel]

Hello ___, 

I hope you are having a great week so far. 

I came across your post on LinkedIn about the internship position at ___ and have gone ahead and applied to the posting. I look forward to hearing from you with next steps.

Regards,
Zuc
``

^ how's this

editing the message rn actually, just realized that too

[sweet pollen]

Will I come across as dumb if I suggest reflection (as in, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_programming) as a solution to a problem?

[charred roost]

Idts

You're contributing as a member of the team

[lime heron]

Yeah I ended up going and was glad even though I had literally no idea what was going on

[thorny gorge]

yea its gonna be like that for a while LOL

[runic tinsel]

If I couldn't give a bug-free version of mergesort in my interview, should I just reduce my expectations for finding a job?

For some reason I can't remember the exact details of all these algorithms,usually small logic like index shifting etc

[peak crypt]

probably not

i had to google how to code bubble sort a few days ago

[runic tinsel]

I could explain it well though. I drew out the step by step method of recursively dividing the array into half and then doing the merge step, with the correct comparisons between elements too

[peak crypt]

well each company is gonna ask different things

from my experience being able to explain well is important even if you dont get the correct implementation

[runic tinsel]

I just got confused with shit like what to return, how to store the values that I split and so on

[peak crypt]

learn it for next time

[runic tinsel]

Yeah

It's so easy to forget it though

[soft hound]

code it a few times so u dont forget

[craggy shuttle]

My mentor gave me a story to do and idk anything yet how i am able to finish it within next 2 days 🙄

[ashen needle]

If I get a sorting question I’ll just dip out the interview

Arr.sort() is all I’ll need ever

[vivid lintel]

By asking lots of questions

[vivid lintel]

Reflection/metaprogramming is fairly advanced, not dumb lol

[sweet pollen]

TFW your mentor says your code “looks fragile and hard to maintain”

[frosty ginkgo]

thats good to hear tho

imagine if your mentor never told you this and you continued doing what you did from before without any changes

that would be bad but now you can treat this as a learning experience and fix those mistakes and apply the learnt lessons in your future code

[vivid lintel]

That's fine

Every internship, my first PR was always a train wreck lmao

Internships are meant to be a learning experience. If everyone already knew what they were doing, then internships wouldn't need to exist.

[night surge]

all of that for sure

and if it is hard to maintain for them it'll be easy for you since you wrote it => return offer

but always ask for an explanation as to why its whatever they said it was

[vivid lintel]

code obscurity == job security

hehe

[lapis summit]

my OOD professor always said that hehe

[craggy shuttle]

Do u guys greet ur manager first in the morning before asking the questions or just ask them the questions directly ?

hahaha okay 😂

[solemn frost]

yea same ask about weekend etc lol

[dark junco]

You gotta remember that internships are ultimately about the learning and growth

[low epoch]

the first step to being good at something is to be bad it

[sweet pollen]

I’m doing so incredibly poorly at my internship I’m going so slowly

[charred roost]

Don't worry about it

Companies aren't expecting you to be going at the speed of light

Just go at your own pace

[ashen needle]

I think you really have to re-evaluate your concept of an internship

I’m sure you’re doing perfectly fine

[charred roost]

Yeah you seem to be working hard and trying your best to learn

That's all that internships should really be about

It's not about being a master programmer that can solve a company's problems in 12 weeks

[dark junco]

You have to remember that it can take full-time employees time to get up to speed

[charred roost]

Yesh FT employees take up to 90 days to get up to speed

Most companies have a 30-60-90 day plan for FT employees

[round osprey]

Im not doing anything at my job lmao

Just running into env errors and bugging ppl till its fixed

[lapis summit]

at least you’re getting paid for it 😁

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[formal finch]

Same

I felt like that isn’t normal

[thorny gorge]

Fr same here

also remember that it’s remote

u cant just pop in and ask for help lmao

[round osprey]

Yea u cant tell if ur annoying ppl or not

[thorny gorge]

lmao everytime u dm someone it feels like ur annoying them

[charred roost]

Yeah I feel like I’m always annoying my manager by pinging them with a question lol

Even though they tell me it’s fine

[dapper shard]

how is everyone's summer internships going?

[formal finch]

finished 5th ticket today

I fucked up hard yesterday

Merged a whole PR by accident and had to revert that shit ASAP

[dapper shard]

break production ?

[formal finch]

nah lmaoo

[hexed wave]

Still waiting to start smh

[formal finch]

sheesh @hexed wave when company starts so late lol

[dapper shard]

almost finished with first week at jpmc

[hexed wave]

Yessir

[formal finch]

ayeee let’s goo

[dapper shard]

set up the dev environment tomorrow

probably start coding monday

[hexed wave]

It takes a week to set up the environment?

[dapper shard]

nah the rest of the days were orientation

yesterday was onboarding

today i met manager and team and finished training videos

tomorrow environment set up

[charred roost]

Damn

My weeks going alright

Spent the past two days setting up my dev environment

Spending today and the next few days learning our codebase

And familiarizing myself with the tech stack

[hexed wave]

That seems mad stressful

[charred roost]

It's kinda overwhelming ngl

[hexed wave]

Good thing I’m not doing SWE

[charred roost]

It is but my manager is chill

He's given me a basic schedule to follow

[silk ridge]

yeah so much to learn lol

[charred roost]

But he said he doesn't care if I can't follow it exactly

[charred roost]

Yeah it crazy

I'm basically doing a crash course in GraphQL and Spring Boot rn

I've got an hour to add a custom GraphQL query to our QA api

[hexed wave]

Wtf

[charred roost]

It's just to learn lol

[hexed wave]

Why are you doing so much in an internship

[charred roost]

Not for an actual feature

[charred roost]

My entire project is about converting one of our existing APIs to GraphQL from rest

[dapper shard]

he's learning

sounds like fun to me

[charred roost]

So I need to learn GraphQL first

Before I can do anything else

[dapper shard]

ill probably be reading documentation most of tomorrow

[round osprey]

I literally got fold i am

[hexed wave]

Nope I’m ready to sit back and collect pay checks

[charred roost]

Yeah I spent the entire day yesterday just going through GraphQL documentation

[round osprey]

My mentor said to “try 3 things before pinging me”

[charred roost]

And experimenting

[round osprey]

Which is him saying fuck u to me

[dapper shard]

no its not

[charred roost]

Idts

[dapper shard]

he's saying try the problem and try to solve it before you come to him lul

[charred roost]

Yep

[dapper shard]

wants to see how you approach it and what your thought process is

[charred roost]

My manager just told me to try for 30-45 minutes before pinging him

[hexed wave]

Na stop the cap. He’s saying don’t be an idiot and solve everything yourself

[round osprey]

And i guess he saying to list them

So we dont repeat effort

Ie dont try stuff ive already said

Okay feel less shitty now yay 🙂

[dapper shard]

basically be a lead tech and do the problems yourself or gtfo

[silk ridge]

yeah you should do that anyways ^

[charred roost]

Lul

My entire team is made up of senior and lead engineers so I feel way out of place lol

[dapper shard]

don't worry. same

[hexed wave]

Na I feel bad for you tho. You’re doing actual work

[dapper shard]

or well we have one entry level dev who has already been there a year

but everyone else is seniors

actual work is fun tho

if its full stack or api

not anything else

[charred roost]

Yeah I don't mind being thrown into actual work

It's kinda interesting

[hexed wave]

I do. Cuz that means i have to do it

[dapper shard]

personally i don't find this work to be daunting unless im like

programming for 6+ hours straight

[charred roost]

Plus it's cool seeing the inner workings of a big site like Glassdoor lol

Seeing the relationship between the various systems and how it's maintained

[round osprey]

My project sucks ass lowkey

[dapper shard]

lul

[hexed wave]

Better than not having a project

[charred roost]

What's your project lol

[round osprey]

My probect also got changed 3x

Project*

[dapper shard]

took one look at #leetcode_discussion and then what im doing in my internship and realized leetcode is still a fucking scam

[charred roost]

Bruh

[dapper shard]

leetcode also gives you six figure jobs tho so

[charred roost]

Lmao yeah my work has no relation to LC problems

[charred roost]

Yee

[hexed wave]

Yeah but other things do

Being able to explain your code and thought process is def important for your job

[dapper shard]

what are you talking about? no one cares about this

if i can't figure it out after watching like seven youtube videos and reading documentation and trying it which will probably end up being a 4-5 hours, ill probably ask someone for help

[low epoch]

y'all are actually doing work? i still can't get ahold of my coworkers/managers to help me locate repos and prepare the features

[charred roost]

Bruh

[low epoch]

it's ok vinodh i already sent out like 3 emails to people: a level above me and at my level (coworkers)

[charred roost]

Nice

[low epoch]

i mean it's their loss too bruh idk what to say

[charred roost]

Yeah they're just losing some money then lol

[hexed wave]

Don’t say anything

[charred roost]

Atleast you get to relax ig?

[hexed wave]

Just collect your checks and chill

[charred roost]

But I mean the whole point of your internship is to learn shit

[low epoch]

i'm still reading a ton of documentation and about the tools i'd use, to try and understand
i did find some repos and look thru, but idk if they're the right ones

yeah agreed, that's the point

[charred roost]

Ah that's good

Showing initiative is always good lol

[hexed wave]

I mean I guess

[charred roost]

I can do this when I'm unemployed though

Why do it at a job

When I can make my government pay me instead

[dapper shard]

lul then how are you suppose to get a return offer?

[charred roost]

Just edit some internal database to change your status to FTE and update your salary

Ez

[sly egret]

so far the hardest part about my project is setting up the dev/testing environment
idk why im so slow with setting it up

[runic tinsel]

Does anyone here have a blind account

[sly egret]

are u trying to read posts or post on there?

[runic tinsel]

No, I’m actually in search of a mentor who can help me find a job. I’m just looking for someone who’s genuinely willing to help me out and isn’t gonna expect $$$ in return

So if someone could post on blind on my behalf that’d be great

[lapis summit]

just post on reddit

[runic tinsel]

Won’t find experienced people though

And I’m trying to find hiring manager kinda people

[round sparrow]

They're gonna tell u to grind lc and fuck off

[abstract wagon]

LOL TRUE

[soft hound]

not bad advice

[dapper shard]

good luck with that. literally just gonna tell you to LC and hope for the best

[sly egret]

have u tried joining general CS / programming discords like the programmer's hangout? those have been helpful in my experience bc there's more experienced ppl there, even met some AWS ppl from there too

[runic tinsel]

yeah can you invite me pls

[abstract wagon]

hey can you DM me too please

[tulip coral]

Hi, @sly egret , could you also DM me please?

[sly egret]

also, what exactly r u struggling with in job search rn?

[runic tinsel]

failing final rounds

[sly egret]

hmm it might just be luck assuming everything else is good

maybe mock interviews could help

[runic tinsel]

it kinda is luck when i think deeply about it

at times its my fault too for either not showing good problem solving or not being prepped

[sly egret]

it happens, i got ghosted after a final round even tho i got harder questions & interviewer said i did well but my friends got fizzbuzz and got the offer

hella rng sometimes

[runic tinsel]

but when i aced linkedin and there's only 1 opening because of the team based hiring then i know its luck, because then it came down to hiring someone from the same race (i have proof) and thats just life i guess.. but if it was a generic pool of positions like general swe i would have had an offer

[round sparrow]

Lmao what do you mean same race

[ashen needle]

Yea that’s a bit of a bold claim, no?

[flat vine]

so whats the proof @runic tinsel

[velvet badge]

How do you know the other person didn't just do better than you?

[round sparrow]

How do you know they didn't have better experience/resume

[low epoch]

Good news is i was finally able to get ahold of team for my intern project and get lots of questions answered. Bad news is looks like some execs are actually especially interested in it. Including a senior VP i gotta meet with

So i have to actually accomplish somethin smh

[runic tinsel]

I spoke to someone at LinkedIn about this. He said that the company is forced to interview people of different races (so not everyone can be Asian or Indian for example) and at the end of the day, given two equal performances on the interviews, it comes down to who you’re most comfortable with and that CAN mean the person who’s of the same ethnicity as you (which makes sense)

[soft hound]

how do you know that was your case lol

[upbeat fossil]

even if it was the case, i wouldn't really consider it proof. bias exists no matter how much a company tries to discourage it

you'd need a flat out confession or a history of pattern for proof

[abstract wagon]

^^^^

[solemn frost]

how do they tell what race someone is though?

[lunar dagger]

I mean it's common knowledge companies try to interview a diverse set of people, but they're not gonna hire you or not hire you solely bc of your race

At least I hope not

[round sparrow]

Lmao blaming race is such cope bro

[formal finch]

also it might be culture fit

[upbeat fossil]

one of the hardest things to do as a manager is performance management, and that includes hiring. i wouldn't take being rejected it too personally, sometimes the manager was just doing their best.

[frosty ginkgo]

no way companies would hire him based on race or not

he's prolly getting rejected for smt else

[lunar dagger]

Honestly it might be luck, leetcode, or some other beh thing

like fit

[upbeat fossil]

could be anything. what sucks is you'll likely never know

[frosty ginkgo]

he said he's failed over 6-7+ final rounds with optimal solutions

i think theres something he's not telling us tbh

[upbeat fossil]

i guess so, maybe it's just culture fit

[ashen needle]

It could honestly just be luck

I failed 4 final rounds for this summer and thought I was a bum, and then the next 3 I did I got offers

[flat vine]

so this is conclusive and undeniable "proof" you lost out on the job because of your race?

what am i reading

[low epoch]

i mean yeah we all acknowledge that, given two equal performances of candidates where one is URM and the other is not, the URM has better odds of getting hired

but you sound like you are backtracking because your claim

I have proof
was that you feel assured you aced the interview for this position and, because the other person was hired, race must be the deciding factor

[lunar dagger]

Honestly maybe we could get this guy a mock interview or something going? It sounds like there's something tripping him up and going through a mock interview might help him pinpoint what's going wrong

[lunar dagger]

they def don't judge by looks

my offers attest to that lmao

im an ugly mf

[flat vine]

so yeah i don't think this is about race

[lunar dagger]

even if u wanted to fake that, it's easy over zoom

but didn't he also intern at fang before

@runic tinsel I really think it would be a good idea to do a few mock interviews

Maybe someone can help u pinpoint what's going wrong

If there is anything wrong in the first place

Honestly could be luck

[formal finch]

I’m ugly but would u give me a chance 👉👈

[thorny gorge]

ugly means ur hidden op

[runic tinsel]

It’s not about URM or ORM. This is about hiring someone from the same cultural background

People wanna be around those who are most similar to them right? Why do you think it’s different in tech hahaha

[low epoch]

well you're talking about human behaviors, then
idk what to say, i'm latinx and funny enough I have gotten along well with all my latinx interviewers and even performed well but none of those i got the job lmao

it's all anecdotal at the end of the day, i trust honest employees to try their hardest to fight bias
what you're talking about is inherent biases where i see no point in discussing

[obtuse pivot]

its not illegal unless explicity proven

[low epoch]

@tulip bronze nah ur right, you're right to challenge my assertion
i think my claim is impossible to prove, i was thinking more of URMs in terms of race
but women absolutely get the short end of the stick

[obtuse pivot]

wheres the proof tho

Its just word vs word

[low epoch]

i was just imagining this scenario where there's a group of hiring managers evaluating candidate A and B
and they literally reach a deadlock - "these performed the exact same"
and one is URM, so who to choose?

[obtuse pivot]

I’m not saying I agree w it, I just like to see explicit proof before jumping conclusions

[low epoch]

but your argument is that such a deadlock is rarely reached, because systemic bias against women/urm puts the orm candidate above every time

[frosty ginkgo]

deadlock to what extent? Like they performed the exact same in the technical portion?

[charred roost]

Yeah they’re assuming everything else is equal

[low epoch]

as "equal" as you want to define it, dracos
but for a big n, yeah i refer to the technicals

no one has identical resumes but hypothetically if possible i'd say yes

[frosty ginkgo]

it would be pretty hard to have 2 "equal" candidates if you added the behavioral portion to the mix imo

but it probably does happen

[obtuse pivot]

depends on their quota probably

[low epoch]

yes and no
on paper, they might justify hiring urm because they performed better on behavioral
off paper, they want to meet a quota
the best reason is ofc "better fit for the team" (i am of the opinion that diverse teams are better)

honest reasons are best reasons

[obtuse pivot]

I think the more fit candidate should be in the offce

office

race is all equal, so judge based off of skil

[low epoch]

we can't have just skill but yeah, it should be # 1

i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if a big tech company (especially the likes of amazon) has large groups of minorities claiming something...

minorities/victimes are probably right...

[obtuse pivot]

As a manager or Higher up, would you rather have employees of different races however for whatever reason some aren’t too skilled, or a team full of very skilled engineers (however, the diversity is much lower)

[low epoch]

a lil of column a, a lil of column b @obtuse pivot

no cap, diversity does help

even if it means taking some candidates who aren't lc wizzards

[obtuse pivot]

In what ways? I just am curious

[frosty ginkgo]

wait thats pretty high?

[obtuse pivot]

What does race change? idrk i think all race is equal

[charred roost]

I thought it was increasing lol

[low epoch]

it's very hard to give you tangible examples, but i'll try
diversity = different backgrounds/opinions/arguments that can happen in team discussions

[frosty ginkgo]

usually online ppl say theres like 1 woman for every like 50-100 men in class

[low epoch]

race/gender is an easy way to "box" people into diff categories

[frosty ginkgo]

for cs

[frosty ginkgo]

yea same

[charred roost]

I think my uni publishes numbers, lemme check

I remember seeing an upward trend

Rip

[low epoch]

other industries, like engineering, have had situations where safety features are optimized for men because the team is all male, so women get short end of stick
inb4 "but you can have an all-male team still consider these shortcomings"

yeah but the point is, from a sociological perspective, diversity is great for getting diverse results

[frosty ginkgo]

what school?

[obtuse pivot]

Again, I have no issue with diversity at all. I just don’t agree with hiring a diverse candidate who isn’t as fit for the job as a more common race if they r more fit.

[frosty ginkgo]

the chance of this happening is very very low

[obtuse pivot]

that’s pretty high

[solemn frost]

mcgill has more women than men as a whole

for unknown reasons lmao

[low epoch]

i mean do u wanna make up some dumb stupid numbers lol
we can go that route
if candidate A is urm but they're "good enough" of a fit, i'll take it

[frosty ginkgo]

look at the gender/race demographic in tech

they're not taking your jobs

[low epoch]

of COURSE candidate B (white male) will fit into a white male team perfectly

[charred roost]

Damn

[pulsar ridge]

too true

[frosty ginkgo]

wait why tho

[charred roost]

Alright I found some data from my uni for diversity

[obtuse pivot]

Are you insinuating they wouldn’t fit with other races?

[charred roost]

And there’s only been a slight increase in women in cs rip

https://waf.cs.illinois.edu/discovery/Gender-Diversity-at-UIUC/

[low epoch]

no, i'm insinuating that, chances are, they'd fit great into a group of similar background (and thus they are likely to be considered a "better fit")

[charred roost]

Here’s the data for anyone curious

[frosty ginkgo]

this happens in many cs schools tbh

[low epoch]

doesnt cmu have worst rep for this lol

the sexism stuff

[obtuse pivot]

Like what @split shuttle

[solemn frost]

i thought top cs schools had better gender ratio bc they can be more selective at the start

[obtuse pivot]

oh cuz i was abt to say that seems unusual

i misread and thought u said people do say sexist stuff

[frosty ginkgo]

females only go into tech for the money

Is that a bad thing to do lol?

i went into tech for the money

gotta get that dough

[obtuse pivot]

if u wanted dough why not just do something else

[frosty ginkgo]

like what?

[obtuse pivot]

Many things pay more than tech

[charred roost]

You also gotta put in more effort though

[obtuse pivot]

^

agree

[frosty ginkgo]

swe looks like one of the easiest high paying fields lol

[solemn frost]

what pays more than tech with less or equal degree req?

[frosty ginkgo]

ib/consulting

[obtuse pivot]

You said dough was main goal, i didnt know if u meant including “least amount of work”

[frosty ginkgo]

but u gotta grind during hs to get target school and then grind in target school

[charred roost]

TCS 😍

[frosty ginkgo]

and then grind the 80-90 hr work weeks

[solemn frost]

yeaaa that's pain

[charred roost]

90k TC for SF 😍

[pulsar ridge]

less time than going to law school or med school too

[obtuse pivot]

or just starts ur own company lol ceo’s r the chads

[low epoch]

tech is easily best ratio of years of study/pay/wlb

any better ratio is starting a business i guess (but that's hard)

[obtuse pivot]

Yes

its hard

but theres no cap of $

[frosty ginkgo]

tech exp helps with that tbh

building SAAS products

[obtuse pivot]

300k is nothing to be paid by google or wherrever

[low epoch]

bruh i thought most startups failed

[obtuse pivot]

ur still a code monkey

compared to wht the higher ups pull

[charred roost]

Oh yeah an entire degree in Canada is only like 50k usd isn’t it

[frosty ginkgo]

yea they do

[low epoch]

that's fine tho, i'm cool being a code monkey making 300k

[frosty ginkgo]

vinoad

[obtuse pivot]

@low epoch same

[charred roost]

Iirc Waterloo was like 10k/yr

[obtuse pivot]

Im just stating thts how it be

[frosty ginkgo]

vinoad the toad

[charred roost]

Yeah that’s like one year at a US uni

[frosty ginkgo]

like 50k a year lol

[solemn frost]

if u are from quebec and go to quebec uni it's super cheap

4k cad per year ish

[charred roost]

Yeah 50k

That includes housing and whatnot

[obtuse pivot]

i went to a worse school than the top choice i got in to, because they gave me full ride + 3k a semester

[charred roost]

Tuition alone was like 36k I think

Yep

[solemn frost]

yea

[charred roost]

I’m out of state

Which is why I pay this much

Usually are 30k per year

Still expensive lol

[solemn frost]

15k tuition and rest is living per year

[obtuse pivot]

cad pay sucks cock

[terse torrent]

Amazon has one woman out of 50 engineers on one team

[charred roost]

I mean we get paid US rates though lol

True

Bay Area dream

[obtuse pivot]

fuck west coast

[charred roost]

Fuck you

I’m from the bay lol

[obtuse pivot]

i dont wanna live on a fault

[pulsar ridge]

mega earthquake

[charred roost]

Would be weird going all the way to Toronto just to come back to work

[terse torrent]

Yes but got cali

Ez

[obtuse pivot]

However oregon is beautiful

and washington

[charred roost]

California got some nice landscapes too

[terse torrent]

Cali or bust more like cali && bust

[obtuse pivot]

I just dont vibe w the cali culture

[charred roost]

We have a culture?

[obtuse pivot]

Seems so materialistic and tik toky

Its repulsive

[charred roost]

Whack

[obtuse pivot]

i guess theres probably better areas without that bullshit

But id move to PNW

[terse torrent]

Idk i just wanted to explore the arwa

Intern Campus :(

[formal finch]

Apple or bust

[charred roost]

The bay is nice can confirm

[obtuse pivot]

Im probably just being a dickhead , Cali does have nice weather….

[charred roost]

Though I’ve been here my whole life so it do be boring

[terse torrent]

So sad i didn't get to go on campus

[low epoch]

Anyone know if apple is in tx

[charred roost]

Same

[obtuse pivot]

Vinodh go hiking

[formal finch]

Yea it is

[low epoch]

Damn that’s dream

[charred roost]

I go every now and then

Got a lot of hills around me

[formal finch]

Dang @charred roost just farm the tc

When u get a good internship lol

[charred roost]

California taxes though

[obtuse pivot]

Texas😍

u can live like a king in TX

[terse torrent]

Give

[obtuse pivot]

Glassdoor is a good internship? lol he gets paid like 40 iirc

[solemn frost]

10000% so happy went to mcgill instead of a US one

[terse torrent]

Wat is that supposed to mean

[frosty ginkgo]

he gets paid 40 bucks an hr

[terse torrent]

Did u guys hear Abt the apple wfh stuff

[frosty ginkgo]

his linkedin uis up

[charred roost]

I mean 40 is pretty decent lol

[obtuse pivot]

Im saying he said “once u get a good internship”

[terse torrent]

Bruh so i read that right

[frosty ginkgo]

imfao

[obtuse pivot]

And im saying he already has a good one

[terse torrent]

40 an hour 🤡

Is good

Lol

Uhhhh

[obtuse pivot]

Im saying its good

[terse torrent]

He's still in waterlooworks

[obtuse pivot]

simp , implied its bad lol

[terse torrent]

Copping wish interviews

[charred roost]

Oh the 40 an hour figure is in usd

[terse torrent]

Imagine

Yes lmao

[obtuse pivot]

i think you guus misunderstood me….

[charred roost]

The wording made it sound like you were saying the opposite lol

All good

[terse torrent]

Microsoft interviewed him when he was cheating @tulip bronze

[obtuse pivot]

Oh ok, ya i was pretty much sayinng that You already have a good internship with great pay. Lol.

[terse torrent]

Before exposed

Idt he got offer

[charred roost]

Yeah after reading it a few times I get what you were saying

English is hard

[pulsar ridge]

he didn't get msft

[terse torrent]

He's here btw

[abstract wagon]

Eric Liu what happened to that clown

[terse torrent]

In this server

@

[abstract wagon]

Did I stutter

[solemn frost]

who is this guy

[charred roost]

Well Huawei is known for copying others

Perfect match

[abstract wagon]

Fits him well

I heard he copied a project from a Huawei Engineer

I wanna work for McDonald's

[obtuse pivot]

LOL

[abstract wagon]

[obtuse pivot]

I Wonder if mcdonalds has swag

[abstract wagon]

They do LOL

I have McDonald's merch

[obtuse pivot]

LOL

I assume mcd internview isnt challenging

[abstract wagon]

I have a raptors McDonald's snapback

[abstract wagon]

No clue

[frosty ginkgo]

brooo eric made a new website and github

[abstract wagon]

LMAO send it

Let me see

[frosty ginkgo]

http://eric-g-liu.me/

[abstract wagon]

How do I get a .me

?

I want a .me domain too

[frosty ginkgo]

u can prolly buy one online

[abstract wagon]

I should

I'm using GitHub pages arm

ATM *

[obtuse pivot]

i miss wungus

[charred roost]

Damn this is nice

Props to the dude that originally made it

Yeah he gave credit which is cool

Oh

[real hollow]

doesn't use https wtfrig, its standard stuff

[charred roost]

Probably

[charred roost]

Oh I didn’t even notice that

[dark junco]

Wait his accomplishments are really impressive I thought he just stole stuff

[solemn frost]

what did this guy steal

[charred roost]

Basically all his GitHub projects

He just changed the name of the repo

Didn't change the readme or the license lol

His previous website was also stolen from a UCLA student

[solemn frost]

oh wow

[charred roost]

Yeah

He also cheated his way through various CS competitions

[solemn frost]

what cs competitions like competitive programming?

[charred roost]

Like for the one that Google runs, his submissions were manually rejected by a Google employee bc they were just copied from someone else

Like google code jam

[solemn frost]

oh okay

[charred roost]

There was one more

Though I forgot the name of it

[dark junco]

Oh that makes sense, I didn't realize about the competitions too

[charred roost]

Yeah he basically just lied wherever he could

Even though his submissions to google code jam were rejected, he claimed that he finished in like the top 20% iirc

So people were furious

[solemn frost]

why's this guy so desperate to lie about everything

[abstract wagon]

I don't believe he won that Citadel thing

[terse torrent]

he got carried probably

[soft hound]

what citadel thing

[charred roost]

Yeah I'm not going to believe anything he lists online lol

[viscid ledge]

lol

ring road bets op

[craggy shuttle]

My manager added me to 2nd proj when i was almost doing good ( i think ) after 2 weeks 🙄

Will it make diff for me to get return ?

[abstract wagon]

I know this is insanely late but do y'all know any company, any at all still hiring for summer 2021 internship positions

any of these work: Data Science Intern, Software Engineering Intern, Software Development Intern, Data Analytics Intern (or anything similar)

[sweet pollen]

I’m doing so poorly at my internship

I hate being dumb

[runic tinsel]

Yeah Ivy leaguer 3.8 gpa very dumb 😂

[solemn frost]

same, thinking about stepping away from software engineering but not sure bc it's online or me

[lapis summit]

do u enjoy working on projects?

it might be the company as well

[solemn frost]

i enjoy working on personal projects yeah, but i haven't done any in a long time bc school is hard

[simple hedge]

anyone else's first week of internship and they basically did nothing all week or is it jsut me

[low epoch]

yeah pretty much same @simple hedge my team was slow

but they told me they know lol

[solemn frost]

i don't want to blame the company bc they've been really kind and flexible despite me missing deadlines all the time. though i don't work in a subject i'm personally interested in

[simple hedge]

word same here, so many onboarding related meetings and zero code written so far

[low epoch]

what is that makes u think you don't wanna do swe? @solemn frost

[solemn frost]

don't enjoy internship. if internship is suppose to be trial version of full time then don't want to do full time

[low epoch]

they told me i'd be doing mostly analytics but "not too much as far as pushing code" unless i get to some later user stories (my first user stories are not strictly about writing code but data)

which felt like a punch to the gut

[lapis summit]

hmmm maybe u should try becoming a PM

[simple hedge]

is this a SWE internship??

[low epoch]

yes

[simple hedge]

dangg

[lapis summit]

lmao my internship is the opposite, its titled analyst but its all code

[low epoch]

yeah i know, i'm just telling myself that i'll try and fit in as much actual code as i can and worst case at least i got it on resume lol

so i can gear up for new grad apps in fall

[simple hedge]

hope u can push some code

[solemn frost]

yeah idk how to do that. ik PM internships exists but seems like there's a lot fewer roles and way more competitive

[lapis summit]

become a PM after graduating

with a SWE background youll be more selective

[low epoch]

alos maybe it's just the company

swe is different stuff across companies/cultures

[solemn frost]

yeah

might try for another internship but it's so much work to prep for in the application process

[charred roost]

I spent the whole week trying to learn the tech imma be using

[solemn frost]

with studying algo stuff

[charred roost]

And getting used to the code base

[simple hedge]

thats me too, what are you learning rn?

[solemn frost]

and if not sure if i want to do it it's hard to tell if worth the effort

[charred roost]

GraphQL, SQL and Spring Boot

[simple hedge]

not too familiar with Spring Boot, is that Java package or something?

[low epoch]

for me it's java, spring boot, splunk

w/some sql

[charred roost]

Yeah it’s a Java server backend

[simple hedge]

ahhh

I'm learning ReactJS lmaoo

[charred roost]

Lmao nice

[simple hedge]

thankfully tons of youtube videos on it

[low epoch]

that's good, react is popular

[charred roost]

I’m enjoying my internship so far

[simple hedge]

y'all remote as well?

[charred roost]

But I feel like I’m always bothering my manager lol

Feel like a burden at times

[silk ridge]

ive been surprised at how fast it is to learn new tech, not used to actually focusing for hours in a row lmao

[charred roost]

Lmao same

[low epoch]

yeah bruh there's something about learning on job vs school

at job you have like all these legit people

expecting shit from u

[simple hedge]

yea expectations are higher lmaoo

meanwhile for like, sys. programming classes I'll take that L lmao

[ashen needle]

i h8 java

[charred roost]

The impostor syndrome is getting to me lol

I feel super out of place

But ig it’ll improve over time

[abstract wagon]

anyone got anything?

[charred roost]

I think companies are done hiring for the summer now ngl

Maybe startups might hire

But you'd have to email around I think

[coral geode]

Do y’all work 8 hours a day at your internships? Mine didn’t really tell us expected hours

[little fiber]

yes

[coral geode]

But like some days I’ve done 6-2 others 8-4

Looking forward to next week since training meetings done

[lapis summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/rutgers/comments/nxmklg/summer_2021_internship_opportunity_for_cs_majors/

i dont think its rutgers only

[charred roost]

I log 8 hours yeah

[ashen needle]

i wanna start doing 8-4 but i cant get up in the morning for the life of me

[soft hound]

wtf 6-2

[charred roost]

I just do 9-5 or 10-6

My teammates all usually start around then

[soft hound]

tfw have to do 12-8

[coral geode]

Yeah I’m west coast and a lot of meetings this week were EST based lol

[soft hound]

dam thats rough lol

[frosty ginkgo]

i do 11-3 and they think im doing a 9-5

[charred roost]

Lmfao

I should probably correct myself and say I log 9-5 or 10-6

I kinda just work whenever

[abstract wagon]

damn

I wish

I did 9am - 2am

yesterday

had to submit a 107 page report

[charred roost]

Jesus

[lunar dagger]

Yeah I work 12-7 aka 9-5 Cali time

But my boss keeps telling me I don't have to work 40hrs/week and I should chill

[charred roost]

What a chill boss

You’re working at chargepoint right?

[lunar dagger]

Yeah

[charred roost]

Nice

[lunar dagger]

And yeah he's super chill

[thorny gorge]

how u get this when u dont go to rutgers

[lapis summit]

im on r/rutgers cuz i have friends that go there lmao

[thorny gorge]

[thorny gorge]

chill wit me

[lunar dagger]

Bett

[sly egret]

anyone else feel a bit behind with onboarding or is it just me

started on the 7th

[charred roost]

I managed to finish the process yesterday but man I felt slow doing it lol

[sly egret]

did you start this past week too?

[velvet badge]

Started on the first and didn’t speak to my manager until this Wednesday

So don’t feel too bad lol

[sly egret]

oh wow lol

[velvet badge]

Yeah it be like that

[charred roost]

Yea

[velvet badge]

Well technically the first week was orientation

So I don’t count the first week

[sly egret]

ah

yea it was mostly orientation stuff for me too but i got a design doc outline done but thats about it, still need to get environment setup

[velvet badge]

I’m still going through a lot of prep for my tech stack

It’s overwhelming ngl but it’s a lot more rewarding than studying for school

[sly egret]

this x 1000000

omfg

i actually love what im doing

[velvet badge]

Yeah I have FUN learning lmao

Same

Even tho I don’t like the specific tasks itself, I’m just so excited to be working on production level code

[charred roost]

It really is

[velvet badge]

And having my project actually be a part of the platform

[charred roost]

I had to move fast and get my dev environment set up already

But just seeing how everything works and learning about the tech I'm going to be using was super fun

[sweet pollen]

To me programming is hyper stressful because I start freaking out if I don’t understand why my code isn’t working and don’t stop freaking out until I do

[sly egret]

the tasks for my project are cool, they matched me to the team perfectly w/ my background

[charred roost]

Nice

[sly egret]

yea this feeling never goes away 🤣 it gets better tho

[velvet badge]

All trial and error, even the best engineers in the world use stackoverflow/Google so don’t worry

[obtuse pivot]

D e b u g skills

[sweet pollen]

But it doesn’t take much energy/willpower for me to code (honestly, it takes a lot of willpower for me to stop, if my code isn’t working)

So I kind of like it in some sense?

[sly egret]

same here im trying not to work during the weekend even tho i could do a lot of stuff
never felt like this in school tbh, was always doing stuff during weekends & late nights pretty often

[mild kelp]

yeah same, i was thinking about working on the weekend but decided against it to take some break and have some cool down time

[sweet pollen]

I noticed that my team has quite a large proportion of interns

Which is definitely worrying

I think there are four full-time SWEs and two SWE interns, and one full-time PM and one PM intern. And I think another SWE intern is about to join us, though I’m not sure

Oddly, last Friday there was a meeting of the super-team we’re a subteam of (I don’t know the correct nomenclature for these things, sorry) and, out of this team with 60-70 people, all interns were in my subteam!?

I’m afraid they’re not really planning on giving any of us interns return offers, unless we’re literally exceptional

What’s a normal intern:FTE ratio for a team?

And how do return offers work? Do people almost always get a return offer to be in the same team? Or is it common to get transferred to another?

There’s one (1) full-time SWE in my team who was an intern last summer

[split fractal]

is this amazon

[sweet pollen]

No

[split fractal]

which company is this

[sweet pollen]

Salesforce

[split fractal]

hm, from what I heard they have a solid return offer pipeline, so as long as your deliver it should be fine

just bring exposure to yourself by demonstrating the things you are doing to your manager

[silk ridge]

maybe they try to throw lots of interns on the same team so make them feel comfortable? like for example im the only intern on my team and it would be nice to have someone else to talk to using the same tech / codebase

even at a big company there were only 2 interns on my team so it sounds like more than normal for sure, but not necessarily a bad thing imo

[sly egret]

how hard is it to get return offer from amazon?

[split fractal]

not hard

just deliver project, and they will give return, very straightforward process

[sly egret]

do i need to hit stretch goals too?

[split fractal]

and even if you want to switch teams you can just reject, and apparently (not guaranteed) but they will try to find you a spot

probs not imo

[sweet pollen]

Yeah, I’ve heard of that, though I’m afraid that things changed. I heard that they hired more interns than usual this summer and the last

[split fractal]

they hire so much its unbelievable at Amazon

[sly egret]

tbh i think my project is simple but there's probably a lot that i cant think of atm that goes into it, plus i have to wait for design docs to be approved and that sort of stuff

[abstract wagon]

isnt the point of intern to evaluate candidates in real swe environment and as long as they are ok, hire them over taking a chance with a random nonintern

im sure intern return is preferrable for company over new hire as long as you arent complete shit

[sweet pollen]

Yeah, that’s what I thought

[sly egret]

thats what i assumed as well

[abstract wagon]

at fb they keep telling us a story of an intern who completely broke instagram but still got a return offer

so cant be that bad right :))

[sweet pollen]

This makes me really stressed out about sending new grad applications 😅

[abstract wagon]

just prepare for it, it wont be that bad

[sweet pollen]

Aww. I have a friend who interned there last summer and didn’t get a return offer

[abstract wagon]

they give lots of chances here so he probably just didnt improve whatever they told him to improve

[sweet pollen]

He seems to have gotten a better offer, though, so that’s good

[sweet pollen]

How often do you guys think "I could generalize these functions more" when programming?

[craggy shuttle]

Even if no return, Salesforce on your resume will help you get more interviews

Although they told that they have 2 reviews like a manager fills out a survey and go over with us in 6 or 7th week

to tell us what all things we are doing fine and what else needs to be done.

Also, Salesforce gave return offer to few last year who didn’t even completed the entire project, as it was so long 🙄

As far as you communicate well and deliver / do your deliverables, return should not be hard.

[sweet pollen]

I don't communicate well :/

I was given a small project, which I'm almost done with, and I don't know what I'll do afterwards. How will this impact my chances of getting a return offer?

[abstract wagon]

You need to have more confidence with yourself literally you got Salesforce. That means you're quite good . Some of us ( including me ) could only dream of getting a fucking interview there lol. Just keep learning and asking lots of questions. I've heard Salesforce return offer is quite high so you should relax and enjoy the Internship and try your hardest and stop thinking about the negatives and the what ifs 24/7. Take it as it comes

[lapis summit]

should i try to get a return offer even if i don’t like the job

programming for cyber security purposes is fun but not as fun as software engineering

[abstract wagon]

I mean take it if that's the only thing you can get rn, it's better than nothing. Just keep applying for internships or new grad opportunities

[lapis summit]

true true

maybe they’ll bump my pay up for next year

[abstract wagon]

Yeah maybe

Or you could negotiate it

[floral birch]

how should I dress for my internship?

dress shirt?

[carmine moss]

i think it's super casual

i dressed nice like the first 2-3 days

then it's pre chill most ppl come in sweaters and stuff at my workpalce

[silk ridge]

yeah i guess company dependent but i think usually you can wear whatever

[floral birch]

ight cool

[silk ridge]

maybe banks are more formal idk, i wear a t shirt everyday at both my internships

[floral birch]

ye I think mine would be more casual

ill dress up a bit for the first day and see what everyone else is wearing and go from there

[sly egret]

i dress like a bum every day and nobody seems to care much
as long as you don't wear anything offensive then its fine

it's company dependent tho

[floral birch]

yeah its on zoom too

im prolly chillin

[sly egret]

it feels so weird not having to worry about hw or studying for exams on the weekends

[hexed wave]

No it doesn’t

It feels great

[sly egret]

i know, its amazing
but im not used to it yet 🤣 too used to panicking about stuff on weekends

[sweet pollen]

I feel like my manager has little idea of what I’m doing

Our PM ended up deciding to give me a project that didn’t seem to fit the kind of project my manager wanted me to work on, and I don’t think my manager knows

I’m nervous that that’ll make me not get a return offer

[past frigate]

anyone who is working in person, what did you bring for you first day/does anyone have suggestions on what I should bring for my first day as an intern

[lunar dagger]

You should probably bring shoes

In all seriousness I had an in person internship 2 yrs back and all they had me bring was a government id

Everything else they gave me when I got there

You probably have like a first day email or something outlining what you need to bring

Anything else you might need will be given to you

It might be helpful to have a small scratchpad and a pen if you wanna note something down tho

[shrewd karma]

Bring some Krispy Kreme

[sweet pollen]

Who else is eager to start work tomorrow?

[charred roost]

I'm kinda excited

[abstract wagon]

I wanna die

[charred roost]

Gonna actually start working on my project

[abstract wagon]

I'm working rn

[charred roost]

Bruh

[abstract wagon]

For deloitte

Kill me

please

[lunar dagger]

f

honestly at this point I'd chill out a bit

especially if you're planning on leaving early

[abstract wagon]

the file is due tomorrow

45000 words

[lunar dagger]

bruhhhh

best of luck to you my man

[abstract wagon]

kill me

[lunar dagger]

I'm praying for you to cop that fall 2021 offer

[abstract wagon]

im gonna leave this summer regardless

[lunar dagger]

Yeah that sounds like a good idea

[frosty ginkgo]

at this rate his fall 2021 offer will be deloiite and his spring 2022 offer will also be deloitte

[umbral knot]

wtf 45000 words haven't written that much over my whole life

[pliant hawk]

[abstract wagon]

I'm leaving for sure

[abstract wagon]

:(

[restive falcon]

cannot believe i actually have to work now

ugh

[abstract wagon]

Imagine working till 2am and they still expect you to clock in at 9

[restive falcon]

if ur working until 2am as an intern

ur clowning urself

no company is worth that

everyone is vaxxed have a hot girls summer instead

[jagged mason]

are you at citadel breadboard?

[restive falcon]

no

[abstract wagon]

I'm not a clown I'm the entire circus

[sweet pollen]

Would it be bad if I gave a fellow intern advice? She was tasked with implementing the UI part of a feature I implemented the backend part of and I feel an urge to help her with a specific thing she said she needed help with. But two other SWEs are already doing that

[flat vine]

yes

[sweet pollen]

Update: I did it and she said “O wow thank you Natalia!” (even though the MTS and LMTS SWEs had found a better way to do the thing?!) and this feels good :’)

[golden ginkgo]

beat out the other interns to the return offer

it's the hunger games

[charred roost]

Lmfao

[coral geode]

what are y'all internship goals that you speak to your managers about

[charred roost]

We've kinda just discussed what the overall goal is for my internship period

And what I'd need to do over the next 2 weeks for the current sprint

That's about it

[coral geode]

nice. we were told to come up with goals (by HR) and to make sure to discuss them with manager

[charred roost]

Oh nice

[low epoch]

damn felt so stupid today asking mentor for help setting up dev environment
good news is it's all good to go

but the documentation was pretty confusing for me and i had to screen share and troubleshoot
all things considered i probably took 3 hours of his time; only consolation is this is first time i really take time from them, fortunately is very nice person

[charred roost]

Nice

[sly egret]

"how do i become SVP within the next week"
srs ans: this is my 2nd week so im gonna ask if im doing alright, if i need to pick up pace on anything, maybe some technical questions since he's in the process of going from SDE3 -> SDM rn

and if time allows he used to work at a crypto startup so im def gonna ask him about that & talk about my degen normie coins

[sly egret]

i used to start in the morning and do stuff till later than this for school
work feels so much nicer

[lapis summit]

is interning fun

i still have a month to go until mine

[lunar dagger]

If you enjoy working on projects or building stuff, then yeah

It's really cool to be able to put something together and watch it be used in production

[lapis summit]

mmm ok thas cool

my internship is focused around cloud computing and i have no idea what to expect

[lunar dagger]

maybe google what a cloud computing intern does? honestly no idea lmao

Or ask in the general chat

I'm sure there's a ton of ppl who've done cloud computing internships before

[loud raft]

I worked in cloud after my freshman year but it was QA not SWE so not entirely sure if its similar

[lapis summit]

its cybersec cloud

databases and stuff

working with sql and python scripting

not really a software engineering internship but still pretty interesting

[sly egret]

yes, i got placed in a project that matches exactly what my background is in & i love it so far

[hexed wave]

Sitting back and collecting pay checks is fun

[rugged mango]

anyone have a good work/study/fun/LC/sleep routine?

[hexed wave]

You work, then study, then have fun, then LC, then sleep

[frosty ginkgo]

work/bullshit 9am-4pm, leetcode/grokking 2-3 problems 4pm-6pm, personal projects/learning 8pm-1/2am

[shrewd karma]

that sounds exhausting

[frosty ginkgo]

i usually bullshit half my work hrs

so its all good

[dark junco]

Wait what that's a crazy schedule

You spend like 6 hours on learning stuff

[velvet badge]

Gym/shower 10am-12pm, 12pm-8pm work, 8-11pm chill, 11-2/3am LC

With breaks and stuff in between ofc

[ashen needle]

I can’t get myself to do any development outside of work lmao

Once I’m done I just wanna relax

[low epoch]

u might need more breaks during workday

like every 30 min just step away

[velvet badge]

I just do constant pomodoro sessions

During work and LC

Just gotta be strict and not get distracted by social media or videos so I just read lmao

[low epoch]

like the actual 25-5?

[velvet badge]

Depends, if I’m learning then I’ll do 25/5 but if I’m doing work that needs more focus I’ll adjust to that

Generally want to have two mins of rest for every 10 mins work you do

[coral geode]

Respect your hustle. I’m getting old I guess I have to get in bed by 11 lmfao

[coral geode]

Work 8-4, either exercise during my break or after work. Dinner/spend time with gf until 8ish. Videogames then bed by 11

When I get bored of finally having videogame time maybe I’ll swap it out for LC

[rugged mango]

bruh where tf is life

my current routine:
7-9 shower, workout, leetcode, other morning routine things
9-5 work and slacking off
5-7 life
7-8 extra study and classes
8-10 wind down, fun, relax

[frosty ginkgo]

i wake up at 8:58 am 2 min before standup lol

which is why i said 9am-4pm work/bullshit

[rugged mango]

i aspire to be like you for the rest of the year

then in 2022 i'll relax finally

[charred roost]

Lmao

[coral geode]

Y’all wildin

[rugged mango]

how does one become the best slacker?

finish your work fast and leave the last parts till the end?

[solemn frost]

damn u guys sound rly efficient

[tired pendant]

I just fYeah I have

i got an interview

[charred roost]

Good luck

That was a major throwback

[lunar dagger]

Oh wtf I thought that was for fall lmao

[rugged mango]

interview? for next summer?

[charred roost]

Lmao

[sinful tinsel]

does it look good to put projects on my linkedin page?

[simple saffron]

my internship is so stressful

so many dev tools

what the fuck

[pliant hawk]

same man same

[simple saffron]

i took a stress nap today

and had a dream about debugging

[pulsar shadow]

My internship is low stress, but the the pay is not good 😦

[pliant hawk]

me yday after work LMAO except the debuggin part

[sweet pollen]

My internship is very stressful but I feel like literally everything is very stressful for me ☹️

[simple saffron]

fuckin TRU

[lime heron]

Yeah I have a lot of dev tools as well :/ the days have been going fast but at the end of them I dont know what I even did all day

[grand tiger]

I have a bug in my internship that I do not know how to debug

[simple saffron]

same i literally have 10 weeks left but all i can think is.. that’s not enough time

[charred roost]

Same

I have a total of 6 tasks to do over my internship

And idek how I'mma finish them all

[little fiber]

today was me chucking a bunch of potential solutions at a problem and none of them working

so i vibe w yall

[grand tiger]

@little fiber I feel you

[abstract wagon]

Trust me , the stress is not worth it

[little fiber]

do you have an exact date you're planning on quitting by if you don't get something for fall

[abstract wagon]

august 1st

3 months of internship

[little fiber]

[pliant hawk]

I got the code base on day 2, I am scared

[charred roost]

Dude same

[abstract wagon]

Does anyone know how hard Salesforce interview is?

I have a high up individual willing to refer me

[charred roost]

I basically spent my first week just reading the code base

[pliant hawk]

My coach said “study it”
I was like

[pliant hawk]

Oh god they’re giving me the project tomorrow

[charred roost]

Lmfao my manager was busy dealing with some tickets so he didn't give me a goal

[pliant hawk]

lmao

[charred roost]

But then when we had our one on one on Friday, he was like "Yo you've been zooming through the onboarding process"

[pliant hawk]

My login for time clock ain’t working. If it don’t work by Friday I don’t get paid probably

[charred roost]

Like ???

I did nothing fam how is that "zooming"

[pliant hawk]

LMAO ain’t nothing to do

[charred roost]

Oof

[charred roost]

Nice

I got my project yesterday

Along with some Jira tickets

[pliant hawk]

Oh?

[simple saffron]

my first paycheck came in today and i was like and then i looked back at my JIRA tickets and i was like

[pliant hawk]

Ayo wtf is Jura

Jira -

[charred roost]

Manager busy with big issues and constantly is in meetings so I can't ask questions rip

[pliant hawk]

I jus got authorization for it

[charred roost]

Lmfao actually me

[simple saffron]

it’s a tool that organizes ur sprints and stuff

[pliant hawk]

I gotta sprint??

[charred roost]

It was nice seeing the number in the bank account not be 0

[simple saffron]

basically the tasks u gotta do

[charred roost]

Basically a Todo list

[pliant hawk]

Oh shit they givin me my own trello? ShiiiiT

[charred roost]

Yeah Jira can organize tasks into timelines called sprints

[pliant hawk]

Can’t wait

[charred roost]

So you're given X days/weeks to finish Y tickets

[pliant hawk]

It’s all in JS idk if I’m happy or depressed

[charred roost]

Except my tickets are on the back burner so idek when I gotta finish them by :)

[pulsar shadow]

React project?

[pliant hawk]

Yea node city

[charred roost]

Not bad

[pliant hawk]

Hapi framework for backend

[charred roost]

My entire codebase is in java

[pliant hawk]

Ain’t ever heard of it. Only used express

Each files like 2k lines

[charred roost]

And it's split across like 18 different repos

[pliant hawk]

Aight my shits in 1 repo thank god LMAO

[charred roost]

Damn

I think the longest file I've seen so far is only around 500 lines

But then again there are thousands of files

[torn dagger]

Also just got access to my code base today and I’m so lost

[pliant hawk]

It’s JS so like the routing files makes sense

[pliant hawk]

Pog another member to the club

[charred roost]

Dude this java codebase is so whack

[torn dagger]

Gotta learn kotlin in a day lmao