CFAANG ðŸ˜
#Little interviews for last summer, now doing new grad, help lol
rustic sage
really good exp though
research exp (hopefully a pub), faang exp, startup exp, top school
think theres some white space to cut down on, make sure bullets that are two lines take up at least half the second line
for the profs startup exp, write in past tense even if its ongoing
our exp is like eerily similar lol, so im hoping you have a good shot cause otherwise im cooked too
inner bear
not FAANG lmao emphasis the C (it was after my second year)
rustic sage
fair enough, tbh the unicorn carries regardless
C1 is by no means bad, its just not like Meta or Google, only slightly less prestige than zon
inner bear
id never gotten a faang process lmao but whatever it was a while ago
im shooting for like google new grad its been my ideal place for a couple years
no idea if im at that level but yeah
rustic sage
thought you were at the unicorn i was at, but $10B confuses me
and yeah im also going for like google, meta, and some unicorns
inner bear
lmao it was a good place honestly
rly cool ppl, but i just want to start out somewhere closer to the big names before branching out to a cool startup or do my own thing maybe
it was crazy engineering talent though
rustic sage
yeah im thinking the same, somewhere big and stable to basically ground my career at
like if get google or meta, i can realistically be viable for any top company, and im also tryna get research exp rn so i can be super competitive
i am from a worse school unfortunately though 🥀
so less prestige on my research, but i have 2 more internships
inner bear
my school isnt rly great for cs, ive just been working on my project for a while, i knew it was never gonna be like NeurIPS level though but thats fine
im in the process for one of IEEE's flagships so i hoped it would help somewhat in industry but who knows
past internship cycle was just demotivating af lmao
rustic sage
rip, im lowk considering spring internships and delaying my grad to the summer
from where we're at it feels like we're one good research exp or internship away from like locking in big tech, even though thats not true
just chasing the guarantee even though it isnt there
inner bear
lmao yeah i applied to the datadog winter one
rustic sage
yeah i went for databricks and datadog
inner bear
tbh i feel like my resume is "better" than a lot of ppl i know who get big tech, like at least amazon, but it still isnt happening haha
crazy too cuz i feel my internship is relevant but thats why i posted here
rustic sage
i mean its for sure good exp, your bullets are solid i think its just a game of prestige in a market where theres no shortage of good applicants
inner bear
yeah fair
maybe unicorns have enough prestige to help lmao idk
did you get any process yet
since we apparently have a similar background
rustic sage
for newgrad? or for spring 26
inner bear
either lmao
rustic sage
for newgrad i surprisingly have quant procs (optiver and citadel), other than that just palantir and roblox. Microsoft, Meta, and the rest I've applied, and either heard nothing or done an OA and then heard nothing
otherwise just Datadog
inner bear
oh you heard back from datadog?
hm do u mind DMing an anonymized resume? just curious cuz im still not getting shit lmaoo
also you seem to have FAANG so yeah thats big tech for sure lmaoo
better than im doing
latent vortex
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