#Rn prior internships don’t even mean

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late flax
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Heavily disagree. having at least 1 prior internship puts you on the map, but if it isnt faang+ or recognizable you need to compensate with great projects. I had no internships last cycle and barely got anything(and the market was way better) whereas I now have 2 mid tier internships and essentially the same resume and I’m getting a lot of procs

polar arch
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Heavily disagree. having at least 1 prior internship puts you on the map, but if it isnt faang+ or recognizable you need to compensate with great projects. I had no internships last cycle and barely got anything(and the market was way better) whereas I now have 2 mid tier internships and essentially the same resume and I’m getting a lot of procs

late flax
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hybrid pecan
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Where’s your procs at? I can’t imagine an actual tech company would care between student A(3 projects and 1 no name startup) vs student B(4 projects) the no name project would essentially be just a project

late flax
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i should probably clarify i have a project with 25k users but i had it when i had no internships too

late flax
hybrid pecan
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Welp we would never knowwwww it’s just all speculations

late flax
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theres a lot of things to consider but you need to stand out in some way and have atleast 1 prior internship/relevant work exp (nobody wants to hire the guy with no exp)

solar gyro
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having startup exp is literally the bare minimum now

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no joke

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my procs were so bad and i thought it would be better bc i had startup internship

late flax
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i agree
if u dont have any prior internships and ur not at a t20ish school good fucking luck lol, best ur gonna get rn is a local internship late spring paying 15/h if ur lucky

late flax
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yes but i would consider being open to anything

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if ur not doing well

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if ur getting processes then its just a matter of passing the interviews

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gl

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did u get a reputable internship

hybrid pecan
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i havent met anyone thats been able to get interviews at known companies with just a unknown company internship

visual meteor
late flax
late flax
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read what i said

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ur just proving my point even more

visual meteor
# late flax i am living proof

do u have any input for what i should do at my stage; i'm working one part time internship right now and still trying to recruit for the summer but not getting any procs

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i mean

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i do have one and its pretty no name

late flax
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so ur at 2 internships rn?

visual meteor
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no one

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and the one is current

late flax
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oh i read that wrong

visual meteor
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yh mb

hybrid pecan
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microsoft in december would be my 12th interview

visual meteor
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sorry if i came off aggressive

hybrid pecan
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im telling u

late flax
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nah im just trying to say if u don thave a good school AND no exp ur giga cooked

hybrid pecan
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its easier to focus on 1 aspect of swe, everyones wants to be a swe, but it splits into so many different roles

late flax
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niche maxx

visual meteor
late flax
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exactly

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its rough man

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research

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is 1 avenue

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research, networking, get lucky

hybrid pecan
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experience theyre looking for isnt just other internship experience

visual meteor
hybrid pecan
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its just what you used at 1 internship most likely is what other companies are looking for

late flax
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not backend work tho

hybrid pecan
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for example backend interns most likely will be either java/springboot or c#/asp.net core and then you would need aws and azure services

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you can get those and then apply, but most people wont have those unless u have internship experience, because companies uses those and you'd be working on that

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but nothing is stopping u from learning that and making projects

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most people wont do it

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most people just spam the same generic resume to front end back end full stack devops embedded

visual meteor
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u think i should learn aws/azure on top of that

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AND lie about my grad date

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😁

hybrid pecan
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lmaoooo

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do what u think is best

visual meteor
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when's a good time to start reapplying

hybrid pecan
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january

visual meteor
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cuz i know recruiting picks up again after like the break

hybrid pecan
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when everyones reneging

visual meteor
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ok

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basically i have a month to make my resume iron tight and grind lc

late flax
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theres still stuff getting posted tho

hybrid pecan
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honestly idk why people grind leetcode, if u passed dsa class

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its enough for interviews

late flax
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not really

visual meteor
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no 💀

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i dont think so at least

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it averages around like high meds

hybrid pecan
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ive passed every single one of my interviews with just dsa class, ive done 50ish leetcode questions, i think if ur completely stuck on leetcode questions u might be cooked

visual meteor
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i dont think you'll be able to do that if u passed a dsa class

late flax
hybrid pecan
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maybe lol i havent done enough leetcode to know whats easy or not

late flax
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react to this msg if they taught u prefix sums in dsa

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😂

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as an example

visual meteor
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exactly

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They'll teach u the basic data structures and how they work but won't go over any of the lc patterns you'll typically see

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i just wish i could focus on building stuff that i like though

late flax
hybrid pecan
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what school do yall go to

late flax
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thats what i do anyway

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i neglected lc

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and did like 200 this semester

visual meteor
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are u junior or soph

late flax
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junior

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junior/senior i can technically grad early so im applying to both

hybrid pecan
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im a senior graduating in dec 2026

visual meteor
hybrid pecan
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i go to uc irvine

visual meteor
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yea no im fucking with u i go to ucla

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i dont think id be talking on here if i was at ole miss ngl

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wait

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does uci also have one intro dsa class and a advanced dsa one?

hybrid pecan
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yea

visual meteor
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thats how ucla works sorta

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yeah

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its not all one thing

late flax
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@visual meteor i just looked at ur resume

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i lowkey think its cuz of grad date

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dont quote me on that tho

visual meteor
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💀

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i mean ur probably right

late flax
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ask for help from ur school

hybrid pecan
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thats a good one

late flax
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not help literally

visual meteor
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most of the people ik with procs have lied abt their grad date

late flax
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yea

hybrid pecan
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whats wrong with ur grad date

visual meteor
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i just never bothered to do it i was too scared

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soph

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thats why

late flax
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same grade level

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then u can see if its grad date or something else

hybrid pecan
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if its a grad date problem, youd get auto rejected

visual meteor
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i can't tell whether i get ats rejected or recruiter rejected sometimes

hybrid pecan
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if its longer than 2 weeks, ur getting ats rejected, all my interviews have been from within 2 weeks, most are 1 week of initial applications

visual meteor
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ATS would reject u straight away

hybrid pecan
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nahhh if its longer than 2 weeks, no ones looking at ur resume

late flax
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^

hybrid pecan
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u think theyre just leaving ur resume back into the system after they look at it LOL

late flax
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how many of them do u think ats filter for specific schools

hybrid pecan
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theyre rejecting u if its not a good fit

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none

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well idk

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idk if my school is target school

visual meteor
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i mean ucla isnt a t5

hybrid pecan
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but ive gotten a good amount of interviews and OAs(non auto)

visual meteor
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but still t20 school

hybrid pecan
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idk i think anything in T50 is good

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  1. Are you applying with 24 hours
  2. You mentioned u want to do backend, whats your tech stack on ur resume for that
  3. Whered you intern previously
  4. Are your projects backend focused
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thats probably like it

visual meteor
hybrid pecan
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i think its probably the way u word it then, if u want i could take a look

visual meteor
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i posted my resume

hybrid pecan
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but idek if recruiters be looking at bullet points like that LOL

visual meteor
hybrid pecan
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i swear its literally just

in this order

  1. Do i recognize school name -> if yes -> I look at grad date
  2. Do I recognize company name -> if yes -> I look at title -> I look at skills mentioned in bullet points
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yea its ur grad date, id change it to 2027

visual meteor
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dsmkladsmakl

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why didn't i do this before

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😭

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oh well

hybrid pecan
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u still got january

late flax
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ur still a youngin bro dont sweat it

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u got lots of time

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also shit still gets posted into may i know a lot of ppl that got stuff LATE

visual meteor
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@job any other critiques of my resume

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@hybrid pecan

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should i just try to laser focus on one area of backend swe

hybrid pecan
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yea that would make it alot easier to get a internship

visual meteor
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hm okay

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like java/spring boot and then what else cuz im interested in systems engineering and stuff

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sorry if it feels like i’m trying to be spoon fed stuff

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i do have some experience with containerization and i was trying to use kafka for another project

hybrid pecan
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nahhh ur good,

I would recommend this stack

Java, Springboot, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS(EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda), Postgres

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idk why people in this discord be hostile torwards questions LOL ask anything bro i gotchu

visual meteor
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bro thanks ur the goat 🙏

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yes i was working on something that would fetch data from a healthcare database that my company works with and run NLP simulations on and it would be orchestrated with kafka

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well not the exact database i was using test data

late flax
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thats a good starter project, not really resume material but

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its relevant to backend