#Summer 25 intern. Should I settle for C1 or aim higher? Do I have a shot at FAANG?

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fair verge
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there's nothing stopping you from applying to FAANG

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like C1 can be a backup

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unless there's an offer acceptance deadline

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then maybe accept then decline later if you get something better

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they cant really stop you from withdrawing can they?

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reneging?

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oh hmm

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how would they be able to verify this?

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like couldnt you jsut come up with an excuse

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like "family stuff" type shit

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why would they tell the school?

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can they do that?

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like do they have the power to block you from campus recruiting?

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maybe for just C1 but for other companies?

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huh how?

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how is this the first time im hearing of this kind of thing

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have you applied to FAANG?

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google opened and close already

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oh thats good

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hmm honestly im not sure

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give me a sec to look at your resume closer

light gulch
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yea who gives a shit lmfao

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renege all u wnat

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companies dont give a shit

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to us when they lay us off

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we’re a employment at will country usually

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good enough resume, maybe move honors and award to bottom

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but ur goated bruh

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also idk

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i hate ur resume format

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just feels ugly to me

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idk why

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🤣

fair verge
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sections are not distinct enough

light gulch
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ah that

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yea

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def

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when i read it

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my eyes were confused

fair verge
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like just having them bolded isnt really enough

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it would be nice it there was a line fully separating them

light gulch
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yeah pls use a resume template in pages or microsoft or latex

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or if this is a template

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it an ugly one

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😂

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otherwise tho

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bruh u got some cool shit

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especially ur file format stuff

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yeah

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if u can pass the interviews

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ik mentees

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who only had udemy courses

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when i teach them

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so ur more than fine

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just gotta optimize consistency

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during interviews

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  • target pipelines
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which the substack has articles on

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do u

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use a template when solving questions? if not

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during an interview

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ull prob fail

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u need to maximize against rubric

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not solving

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what i mean by rubric

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i see ppl like u a decent amt

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where they optimized for leetcode solving

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but never get offers

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bc they end up not structuring well

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their communication and analysis

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so when they put ur points for it

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what can they say?

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great coding maybe 4/4

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but maybe communication and analysis of the question and edge cases between 2/4 to 3/4

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which can make ur results more varied

light gulch
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but this is what i taught to everyone

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to try to consistently score offers

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cause it comes down to rubric consistency

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free trial abuse

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i turn on the button

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just sign up and immediately cancel

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or fake card

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for the future

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when u need to free trial abuse more

light gulch
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other than my videos

light gulch
light gulch
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yeh

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but i literslly turn on free trial

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and my table of content

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links to the

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free trial abuse article

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😂

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im more than ok ppl abusing it

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bad luck last two years

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rn is upticking

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in hiring

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but also rn is bit early

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yeah it early rn

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and also quants super competitive

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talk about timelines here

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^

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and tips for specific companies

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ahhh

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well

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all those

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are competitive

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lol

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i never try too hard for unicorns

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since it inconsistent

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that just my own opinion

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i only like consistent companies

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and the faangs are pretty hard to beat once u hit meta / google

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i taught friends for databrick / have datapoints on the others. tbh, benefits are too crazy divergent

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and even less in many cases

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dun get me wrong tho

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could go rich

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yeah, more variance to get in + also benefits arent necessarily comparable to faang, or maybe lot paper money, so on

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yeah once u hit google / meta

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the benefits are pretty much top

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other than quant

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google/meta will go further

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google/meta imo

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i see tons ppl from faang bg

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u just naturally pull more doors

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since to everyone else

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they dont weigh unicorns so heavily

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like we do

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just my opinion

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some exceptions

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quant is a diff field all tgt

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no real comparable

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quant is quant

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faang is faang

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quant ppl live their own bubble imo

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rapid fire go

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no

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i had a 2.8 gpa

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to give an idea

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i had mentees not even with a cs degree

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so on

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maybe some care

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like tiktok

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or chinese based companies

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oh maybe quant cares

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yeah

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tbh i hate finance

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so xD can do whatever

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finance = abuse

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is meh

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the project is decent

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the leadership as u said is whatever

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but rlly u only have two points there anyways

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it def just resume filler

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ur other stuff

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is more impressive

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so idrc

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especially ur work experiences

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are already solid

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and written well

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and also stand for themselves

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in complexity and impact

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is whatever

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yeah

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but its fine

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ur a student

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not everything needs to be killer

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no one rlly reads it imo

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after a certain point

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it sort of

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good enough to get in

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is my mindset

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sounds good

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if u got such a thing

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but not the end the world

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tbh

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🤷

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ur already solid enough

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but if u wanna / in the process

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i see no harm

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i just used to replace and adapt as i go

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and have more stuff

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xD. i think its impressive, dont get me wrong, but i just find it weirdly placed

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rather it at the top or bottom

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not in the middle

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Yeah i think also

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ur obvs insanely good

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so i rather that come out in interview

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id like super sharpen

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that sell

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have a friend i help mentor

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went from bachelor to phd at mit for ml

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so we rlly sharpen

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everything academic and research for her +

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just once she introduces herself

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we have it locked in

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obvs most of it still just lc sadly lol

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but these things

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can make the diff

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between u hired vs not

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no xD. sorry, it too hard to explain cause i usually do 1:1 for this.

but the tldr is have a concise theme that links to everything.

like ur introduction is it an underdog or rise to hero story

when they ask about ur project how do u sell it

they obvs will ask follow ups like technical challenges, is this ready so on

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yeh

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i teach all my mentees to think large bulletpoint ideas

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so they can pull it all dynamically

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when they speak

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yeah my main thing for u is

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ur solid

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so if u get an opportunity

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make sure to convert

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by maximizing consistency

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it sounds like that the part ur missing

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in ur prep

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yeh hopefully the articles can explain it all

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if anything feel free ask

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if im desd here

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just ping me my server

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i burst on and off here

stable flame
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Damn ur resume is solid @flat python

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Only things I would change is like one line per bullet point or add concepts section

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to pass ATS screen