#2023_summer
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How do I get referrals
Tech?
yea maybe just pretend you're doing your masters at ur current university
stripe more like strip
citadel

citadel intern posting is open like year round
probably early? i dunno
Whend u do OA?
about a week and a half ago
How’d u do on it
perfect scored it
yea i know second problem wasn't too easy; im a lot better at coding silently and working through problems on my own with time rather than thinking on the spot + talking while thinking in actual interview i think
and i have no experience doing an actual interview since im a freshman
What
so im trying hard to find ways to prep
What year did u put for grad year
2025
Oh damnn
i said i was graduating in 3 yrs lol cuz im on pace for that
Open rn? Not much
when’d you apply?
2 weeks before got oa
Stripe layoffs
Sorry about the late response, but I applied a couple weeks ago and today is my technical
How was the interview
what company
verkada
I did NG backend
NG?
Oh i see, still i bet the questions are similar
unless y'all did a 4 hour onsite, no
damn i applied to verkada a min ago
still haven’t heard back
I could imagine the first OA was similar
I had a referral which really helped
I don't think that was remarkable or difficult or anything
but the onsite was defo role and new grad tailored bc they asked questions I never got in my intenrship interviews last cycle
did u get the internship?
my onsite technical was in docker + flask
I have my technical today, I did my oa before this
good luck! is it the final round for you?
No I think the next one after this is the final, but Ive heard it will be something similar to yours where you are actually using the stack that they use.
ah I c
I think the first technical wasn't too bad...I think it was a 2 part question on the easier side of LC medium
be mindful of code reuse
*like in ur part 2 think abt how u can do that effectively leverage code resue
dw...they're kinda sporadic in how they move like my first interview took forver to schedule, then the next 2? 3? moved rly fast, then it took them a month to put together an offer
took a month from final -> offer?
almost
Rip stripe
has anyone gotten/completed doordash virtual onsite tech interview?
layoffs
🙄
bruh i was hoping ng next year gets better
Bruh, woke up shitting bricks for stripe onsite just to see its cancelled
Did anyone get their hm cancelled?
on reddit yea
Rip everyone at this point bro wtf
Nah only RIP goes out to the fake Colin davis
Damn
well it doesn't necessarily mean that
they hired 240 interns last year
their target was 100 this year
i just hope they dont rescind the offers
😦
I doubt they would rescind but i doubt return offer would be easy
i accepted my offer
its gonna be like 30% return offer rate again probs
time to prep for new grad recruiting!
zero shot they extend more offers tbh
im thinking they just gonna keep it to who accepted already, around 60-80 of us
Ping em bro i can ban
@fresh ledge
Does Palantir call to reject?
yoooooo
wtf
just got doordash technicals yesterday, anyone taken it and can say how hard it was?
it is bro 😭 😭 😭 it is
😭 😭 😭
Rideshare is dead
i heard Uber made more money this year tho i swear
they got a lot of debt tho i think

they lose billions every year
Uber didnt make much
total profit was 50 million, and their overall business scheme is starting to collapse
oh bruh
thats not enough

no it makes sense
rip uber
the downside to Uber's way of doing shit, is that their margins are almost nonexistent, they cannot acutally make insane amounts of profit
also Uber's other big problems is they spend way more than any other company on legal battles and sorting out regulations
ye they do
that would work if Uber was a monopoly, but they have too much competition now
Im glad california tries to fuck them over with regulations
can i go one internship cycle without a cataclysmic economic situation unfolding in real time
like Lyft and other companies are just doing what Uber didnt do and now its screwing Uber over
Yea but now theyre all screwed
Except doordash sonce they can apparently afford to ask lc hards
blind rating doesnt mean everything 
meta has 4 stars
2.3 max cause they didnt hire me
-0.3 stars for metaverse incident
another one
Stripe laid off 14% of their team, informed people about an hour ago.
14 weeks of severance, they pay out 2022 bonus, accelerated RSU vesting, career + immigration support.
A very interesting comparison: Adyen, Stripe’s competitor is massively profitable, has no layoff risks.
4250
499
Yeah everyone got their intrrviews cancelled
Anyone heard of Ayden? Seems like it’s one of Stripe competitors, number of employees is 1/3 of Stripe and profitable
Common Lyft L
lmao
I guess ayden is gonna get a whole lot of applications
i just want to retire from this season and lay low in a cabin in the middle of the wilderness until the next grueling season
holy shit
Cnbc is popping off
Got damn bro
tbh here in the UK its looking even worse icl
mfs be saying worst recession since like the great depression 
Python udemy learners are even more screwed
this is my great depression
why did every company start laying off within the same span of 2 days
going to hop between railroad lines
Twitter was already known at least
eat canned beans for the rest of my life on a 50/hour salary
its all a big conspiracy bro, they do a little trolling
wonder how the bootcampers are doing rn
not good bruh defo not good

unless they are like hella cracked then i guess they could be chillin

reading the 3rd article in a row abt how disastrous tech is after they took out a loan to pay some shitty coding mill camp 50k
BRUUUH
a loan for a bootcamp
tech bubble warning
tech bubble warning
thank god im a double major
Bootcampers killing the industry 😢
Johns Hopkins here I come
Bloating up the entry level job applications
its obscenely expensive
i never understood bootcamps, its a waste of money cuz at that point just go to a cc and do some online cs degree while working a real job
to get into bootcamps
Same
Just go to school lol
The way of thinking and approaching problems is much more valuable
Than learning fullstack
bootcamps are literally just a way for people to scam you for money imo, its not competitive enough
i mean the point of bootcamps is to take the shortcut and learn the "essentials" to get a job
in the real world process
Anyone can learn fullstack
either that or just learn in your spare time over a period of a few years
people can still get in like that
But learning how to think is hard
prob not faang tho
yea and thats cool until every other kid with an actual degree is getting a job over you
its a 3-6 month thing compared to a 4 year degree so people leech on that
I think they’re pipelines for some boot camp
To companies
they make you lie a shit ton so your resume is od fluffed for companies
yea but in the general scheme of it, they proibably dont have much value
Fax
i think they did a long time ago but i dont think they do as much any more
They be giving everyone the same fullstack projects too
too many kids with actual degrees in the market now, no point in looking at bootcamps
bruh
people usually say that they dont understand the fundamentals of CS and how to be a swe. they only know how to do LC
which is enough to get started IMO but not enough for a job
🙂
A lot of bootcampers complain about lc
well yea, if you do a bootcamp ur gonna have holes in ur knowledge since ur just getting essential skills
its stupid cuz ur base fundamentals are nonexistent
and it will bite you in the back later on
LOL
palantir bootcamp be like(only graphs and trees)
When ppl complain about trees its like bruh these are hella useful
lc is a good equalizer as much as i hate it like its comforting to know i just have to solve quirky coding puzzles to worm my way into faang instead of some other variable thats harder to change
like what college i go to or some shit
i dont have anything against people doing a bootcamp tbh but they just gotta understand its gonna be a lot tougher especially now more than ever
Mfs when they need to find min cut max flow
law and med students when i tell them you have to solve two sum to make 210k new grad at amazon instead 10 years of additional education and debt
LOOL

legendary
charlie my favourite memer here after salat
med salaries should go up goddamnit
by the time i grad from med, the salaries will have increased 
my friends a nurse in ohio and shes on the brink of mental collapse making like 35/hour in 12 hour shifts with crackheads and staff yelling at her its crazy
med not my thang
How long did it take for you guys to get salesforce oa
idk chief, i never got mine 
Krishna!
oh hell naw
isnt it hard to be np
expedited to 3 if you pay for the pro package
rip
:mechanic cat:
he had it on stand by
at least you got transferred 
day 67 with literally no u updates
everyone gets transferred
i didnt
and im at a university that definitely has a recruiter
and most of my friends did
legend has it if nothing happens after 90 days you can email them
wait 90 days 
i need paypal phone
either its that or the 8th covid booster shot i had to take
stripe competitor
are you still grinding colin
departing after pp
wheres the og video
Do you know what does it means?
means nothing they didnt get to you
yung lean phase entered
wouldve stayed in the primordial soup if i knew it was gonna be like this
im trying
how do twitter engineers feel about tesla engineers who work at worse company reviewing their code
msft is full i bet
sushi ptsd
no im not joking
ill grad whenever the markets better
he died for our sins
cap
making up random grad dates on my rezzie
they waitlisted everyone and told krishna hes going to get defered
nah just go do a masters to extend ur education by a year and then grad when they are hiring
u can get off waitlist tho
i know someone who recently got off the waitlist
math is cool if you are smart enough to do big money stuff or get into swe or something
im not smart enough
im still waitlisted for the fire department so probably not even college
yea once u make it to upper div you get to feel like a plato doing abstract proofs
our school made today a wellness day and tech said fuck you
look at the layoff tracker
literally
my internship yesterday told me to start interviewing at other companies
interview WHERE
can u send link to article
^
are you still at linkedin?
Rip
they really good
good pay and wlb and stuff
and they told me they would give return offer until literally yesterday
its fucked up
linkedin winter is happening
it filled up a long time ago
famous last words
same
if amazon stops its super fucked
zon wont reach the layoffs point tho
troll 
the fact that they reached no hiring is surprising af

yea my fidelity offer is confirmed
but idk if ill be able to make an upwards movement this year
certainly palo alto aws office is safe 
what is system design?
its ogre
why am I mod of like every server
gg
day of reckoning

based
literally
had to close off my dms

thats the worst part
waking up to 5 texts a day
and then
when I try to help
they curse me out
bro same happened with me
I was banking on fall return offer
for non student roles
offer farming 
fall internship szn lowkey gonna just not happen
not for intern
according to people
for people who got stripe interviews cancelled, did it say they were cancelled or postponed?
yes

cant believe I have to actually apply to amazon
Ive never done
was not planning to
even with reach out
I need fall
Wait was it a big company that bailed on you?
literally for school
i think its bc the interview process is a meme
Google fall 
thats good
Not that much higher than other companies
means you have job security bc peopel get cut
hopium
no surprise 20% layoffs
is it open rn
No
where is the fall link?
oh
for what
Apply for summer and push
amz
That’s what I did
k
I’ve been pushing google from summer 22 all the way to summer 23
for?
Might not even go to google if Cit works out
i said no surprise 20% layoffs at amazo

wait so I should take off incoming at figma before applying right
bc peopel get pipped constantly

oh
or would that help
Why would you apply for a summer internship
mfw google backup
With an incoming summer position
best google team > best citadel team but avg citadel team > avg google team
ppl do that

google brain
ez
real
oh shit I have to take incoming off of linkedin
I’d rather do goog but Cit pays too much to turn down
Avg goog team def better than avg cit team too lol
including pay
That’s not team tho 
gotta study im sinking my remaining mental energy into this hackerrank
im saying
holistically
including team
woahhs team is cool as fck
google actually sends OAs?!
u got cit too?
have you heard from there already??
work in banana stand = corporate
Anybody had citadel leadership?
standing desk 
what is everlaw
whats everlaw?
everclear?
just got drilled by belvedere OA
amazon more like tundra
waiting for my rejection
howd you do
dude so bad
amazon interns might be ok
i thought it closed on monday
like it opened and then clsoed same day
i thought it was one of those OAs where u have unlimited time, so I def wasnt prepared to crank out all this leetcode garbage
I got mine and its still open?
email says I have 5 days
I did the first 2 but then I got tired and lost any desire to do the 3rd one lmao
why do ppl rub out of steam in long oas
its like a 3 hour final right
how do u do ur finals
funny of u to think I get to that stage
My college final are 2 hours tops
i do them in less than 3 hrs cuz im cracked like that
fr
hey folks
What do you guys think this means?
does that include interns and new grads?
published yesterday
what does this mean?
they said they paused ALL incremental hires
are u in team matching for cit
just finished my second deloitte interview
for the summer scholar
I loved those interviews I swear
did stripe cancel all interviews?
because my interview just got cancelled
they laid of 14% of employees
a lot of people got it cancelled 
the old ones said student programs was unaffected
intern is corporate
warehouse is not
corporate
ok where do i apply for summer 💀
can i see the wording
bro
stripe is gonna rescind
the wording i just got from my recruiter
how do u know
doesnt sound good
noooo
GG
go to amazon
💀
F
facts ill do that once stripe is confirmed not having me
lowk just start recrutiing again
can u expl
it was a 2 hour conversation about just me, my interest, and whatever metrics they are testing me on internally
fidelity safe as fuck rn
Meta is unraveling
no its true tho, its cuz they have expansion plans in place already so their internship and ng hiring isnt freezin
the only downside is fidelity isnt a faang level comp
if im working 60 a week on 40 an hour thats prorated to like 120k for an internship
shit bro i need money for next year 💀
oh nah im doing the summer scholar internship that they do with target schools
solutions engineeering
I would think it would be better than my current offer of 27 an hour for GEICO
LETS GOOOOOO
does anyone know what/where corporate housing is for DE shaw (NYC)?
💀
this is frustrating
can yall just tell me what you're seeing that I'm not seeing and stop being toxic, I'm trying to learn and figure this shit out
huh what was the wording like?
thats actually so shit
i thoguht the people saying stripes valuation was overinflated were just doomers
try to get into zon again
what about USAA?
its not gonna work
@stone echo u should have honestly accepted amazon and reneged for stripe if u got the offer letter
no point in rejecting the other offers tbh
i mean they wouldn't actually rescind offers right ....
i did this
😮
yea
playstation intern -> xbox team -> minecraft developer
well its not confirmed canceled lol
I would think the experience is what matters a lot more than anything else for the internship, pay would be the bonus. I barely know data structures so I literally don't have technical skills lol
no even then, pay is usually correlated with how good the company is overall most of the time
but yea its a start
u just gotta move up from here so best of luck
well isn't USAA a good company to work for? they pay like 25
ive heard deloitte has bad wlb and shit tho
compared to a lot of other banks and all
I was just goiing to use brand name to pivot to faang if possible
can still apply
no fte
honestly if u have geico u can just try for zon and shit already, deloitte wont change this
in case of rescind
better than geico im guessing
causei cant get any other good ones
mfw hm doesnt say they use mern stack
If amazon is rescinding it’s over for tech
case zero
yea i agree
Amazon only announced hiring freeze
i mean
Hopefully nothing worse
Would usaa be fintech technically
i think they are just not really hiring any more now
if I'm working on their banking stuff
i dont think they aer going to rescind
Capital one time
i locked my fidelity offer down its just frustrating how one of my years will be gone over this
What happened to riot?
i would be more sus if amazon kept hiring through the end of 2023 and then started rescinding
they havent said anything its been 3 days since behavioural 😦
My recruiter hasn’t responded to my email for 3 weeks
@pure pewter u could try fidelity they were very easy to get into and they pay marginally better while being decent enough
damn
I hate all the govcon here
China #1
i should have applied to raytheon early
i dont want to work to blow up terrorists
except all defense companies only hire CS and EE majors
are my current offers better than defense contractors?
Is robinhood fintech
@stone echo what was the email you got from stripe?
is fintech fintech
No
at the risk of getting flamed: usaa vs geico vs deloitte
youre not gonna hear back from amazon if u apply rn
ight ty
should I let them know that I have other offers and that I need to know pretty soon?
ye
oki
Fr? I passed google Linkedin 2S resume screen but not amazons
did u apply late
OA? Not bad just similar to other companies
Mid September not that late
yea thats too late
i havent really heard of anyone getting resume screened
nov 3 11:36 am is too late
yes
you'll never guess my name or what school i go to
not for swe
waterloo
most quants the resume screen appears to be the hardest thing
you don't need c++ either unless you want HRT core dev or jump
just apply for algo eng
or python core dev
realistically you only need c++ for jump lol
python roles less common at some
only at jump and I guess HRT but for the latter there's loads of FT positions all the time anyways
so it doesn't really matter
pretty sure akuna explicitly said theres less for python
there arent loads of FT positions all the time
at any of these firms
who wants akuna 
maybe citadel
that's a skill issue 
!problems two sigma
!problems can only be used in #leetcode-bot
i would get iq gapped in trader interview though
which is a skill issue
resume != skill
and again for JS, Cit etc you can interview in python doesn't mean you'll get a python role

at least for those 2
head hunters for HFT reach out to people at big tech a surprising number of times for FT lol
Might b the copium speaking but I think I’d actually have a solid chance passing zon final
my friend's bro got reached out to by p much every top quant firm during the robinhood fiasco
bc they thought he would jump 
yeah so it's not the end of the world if you don't get in as an intern
there's always a shortage of senior engineers
it's a big worry even at huge companies like amazon lol
too many entry-level, not enough seniors
saying resume == skill is waterloo cope
no because senior isn't terminal
usually the level before senior is terminal so a lot of people get there and chill
don't promote to senior
and there's this too
whatd u get for final
memes 
easy as questions
no wonder they are on hiring freeze
twosum ? 
easier
im not trolling
if i get a LC hard/med ima cry
do b75 and top 15 amazon tagged qs
would that work tho
you'll be fine
it worked for pbjie
worry more about behavioral imo
i thought its j like any other behavioral @jaunty cove
dawg just simp LPs and you cant fail
I have like 5/6 stories that cover everything i feel like thats fine no? @jaunty cove
howd u prep for behavioral @jaunty cove @quaint bolt
salat do you want matuda offer
i did a bunch of stories
and looked at the lps
I'll trade
STAR
emphasized results
trade offers 
Ah think it's all departments Colin
At least we've accepted the offer
yo sorry for the paragraph drop. i got some really bad advice from ppl around me and really underestimated the importance of internships and resume building up until a couple weeks ago. i'm in junior year and trying to get a summer 2023 internship now but have no previous experience and my resume is pretty empty besides school projects (i'm trying to ta spring but i think that's not really going to help me now). i'm pretty stressed and don't really know what i should be doing because i have the assumption my resume is too weak for how late i've started applying, and lots of companies are already closed/full. does anybody have advice for what i should be doing and prioritizing at this point?
🤝
try local companies
Did anyone do the version interview?
did you post your resume in #1019675142248468601
TA positions are good substitutes if you can't get a swe internship
try to get into a research lab at your uni too
I was in the same situation and have literally no experience and one school project listed, might be getting an internship at deloitte and already an offer from GEICO
those aren't high bars, but it's better than nothing
i looked at other people's resumes and pretty much assumed the advice i'd be getting would be to do more projects to add to it, i'll post it there in a bit though thank you
target insurance companies, banks, any company where tech is not their product, but rather a "means to an end"
these companies generally have a lower bar to entry and easier to land
^ yeah that's what I did and it's working
ok thank you everyone, really means a lot seriously
I mean I think u have to remember this is like blind XD
r/cscareerquestions is more tamer for instance
blind
I’m sure geico is great
?
lower my car insurance pls
yeah ppl here gave me shit for making 40 an hour with deloitte 💀
i literally have never touched leetcode and have no exp lol
40 is great
^
what do you like about local companies
yo did you end up getting hub for winter?
cscareerquestions is useless imo
or dropped?
stripe can suck my dick
How long does apple take to respond?
fuck stripe
nice
they aren't
they aren't
they aren't
we did it reddit
htat was epic
they aren't
supposed to have a call with my recruiter today, she didn't show up, no response any more, have a deadline tomorrow
and now idk if i wanna work there
so
literally just wasted my time
post final?
she didn’t show up because she got laid off lmfao
big up deloitte, deloitte is better than JS, Cit and HRT combined
but if they fired her i will riot
is resumeworded worth it?
she's one of my fav recruiters
probably did
it's deloitte dc tho 💀
Deloitte university in texas
How do you guys find the recruiter to cold mail to?
Consulting job + I've heard terrible things about their WLB. Is this even new grad/entry level?
y'all think it's even worth it to continue with stripe?
next year gonna be better bro
massive fucking skill issue 

nah next year the interviews only get harder
and I'm gonna be competing with people who already have quant internships
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has anybodys offers actually been rescinded at any company or have their processes just been cancelled cause of layoffs?

🧢
that's fucked
Where at 
solid
has anyone taken walmart technical?

can someone take a look at the corporations at my schools career fair and tell me how I did with deloitte?
which other companies did u get
Geico
🥜
If it’s 80/hrs a week then just half that salary no?
si
these are the companies at the career fair
Bro I gave up
yeye cisco still hella good imo
keep hustling bro u might get somethin
ok woosh
when meta

Sheeeesh
companies always say this tho
u cool if i dm u and ask some questions?
when has a company said that and taken back an internship offer lol
Yeah lol
im curiosu
Hi there,
You may have seen some news today about headcount reductions at Stripe. We wanted to let you know that your 2023 internship role is unaffected, and you can continue to plan to onboard on the agreed start date in your offer letter. We recognize there is some time between now and then, so please be rest assured we will continue to be in touch with relevant updates.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please let us know by emailing universityprograms@stripe.com and a member of university recruiting will be in touch as soon as we can.
All the best,
Stripe University Recruiting
might not respond for a little bit tho, have visa final in 30 min
Massive W
coinbase said incoming hires wouldn’t be affected and then they went on a rescinding spree 2 weeks later
^ stripe internship update
this was new grad right
yes
also coinbase was fucked fucked, i dont think stripe is fucked like that financially
they just over hired like the rest of tech lol
market not good rn regardless
yeah agreed
Mongo full
Time to commit neck rope. Recruiter even said i should expect to hear back ;-;
meh coinbase is prob gna survive until the next bull market
i would say have a backup lol
but they were transparent today adn offered great severance
so im hoping my stripe offer still valid
whats reddit swe intern process?
they check ur reddit karma
^
can I dm you later to ask about the interview?
lots of companies do it brother
even the ones that you'd least expect
internship canceling program is extremely rare
i understand companies (as a whole) suck, but thats usually a last resort
for optics and cost reasons
not true
Is the email that they gave not working for anyone else? was supposed to have meeting w recruiter today to get offer but now idk what to do
mind if i DM?
wdym by not working?
same
like literally same boat
had a meeting with recruiter
recruiter missed the call
have a deadline tomorrow
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holy that sucks
did they rescind intern offers?
hopefully we get update soon
AW
nope mine is different
yeaaa sounds like a lot of recruiting staff got cut
i hope she isn't layed off
i already know that mine is 😦
wait how
did you get an email from someone?
heard from someone i know at stripe
imagine your interviewer gets laid off during hte interview
if u have an offer i think ur fine, cant rly speak on returns tho
initials? i'm praying rn
why tf does etsy pay interns 18 dollars jaj
bruhhh
all these layoffs
literally if i heard back the day before
this is so infuriating
is your stripe recruiter's initials SL?
wait what apple news?
does amex call to reject
:(
Wait ik a guy who got an interview from apple tho on Monday
should i just take my offer at verkada
If they’re frozen shouldn’t he have not
this is the ice age
wonder what the outcome for next year finna look
Yes
i have an issue with their sexual harassment case



