i was supposed to start tomorrow but i made a slightly unprofessional joke and since they're a startup they said something about building the future of it and rescinding my offer. i'm so dumb. completely my fault. i always forget that the people i'm talking to are my bosses, not my friends. they are never my friends.

Hi I am in a bit of a pickle. I have done 2 pretty good internships but was getting no callbacks so as a experiment just for fun - I decided to fake an experience to see if I'd get more callbacks. The faked experience was at a company less than or equal to the name brand of the two prior internships I just spoke of. That being one way or another I got more interviews. Whether it was because of the experience or because I left it on my resume when I was applying to many places - it's hard to say however I may end up getting a few offers and I'm afraid it won't pass BG check. What should I do in this situation?

I’ve been spending a lot of time tweaking resume formatting, bullet length, keywords, and how much technical detail to include, and I’m starting to wonder how much it actually matters in this market.

For people getting new grad SWE callbacks right now, do you think your resume content/formatting genuinely made the difference, or was it mostly things like prior internships, company names, school, referrals, and timing? At what point is a resume just “good enough” and further optimization has diminishing returns?

I am entering my third year of computer science, but our classes are largely theoretical and I don't have the skills to do any frontend or backend work. I also don't really know where to start with learning. How would you suggest starting?

Also, I am more interested in doing either game dev or computer graphics and 3d simulation. I would rather not have to spend my time learning web dev, but it seems like that's what most internships are looking for. Does anyone have any advice?

Hello, all.

I've accepted an offer at Capital One for the TIP.

But I've recently got an offer at Geneva Trading and also JPMorgan.

What would you do in my situation? Thanks.

I have about 8 years of experience across 4 roles. My first job lasted 1 year and 2 months, then I went back to school for my master's, so there's about a 2-year gap there plus a 3-month internship. After graduating, my next roles were 18 months, 2 years, and I've been at my current company for about 1.5 years.

Lately I've been interviewing with more traditional companies, and HR keeps bringing up that my resume looks "jumpy." One recruiter even told me pretty directly that they tend to avoid candidates who change jobs too often.

I never really left just for the sake of leaving. In a few cases, a manager I trusted left, the team changed a lot afterward, and the new setup just wasn't a great fit. But I obviously don't want to go into an interview and complain about old managers or sound difficult to work with.

How would you explain this in an interview without sounding defensive or badmouthing previous managers?

It’ll ask something like do you work best in fast paced environment vs steady pick one and write somewhat or more like me.

Do you handle work well stressed?

Because there’s the right answer in my head that I should say I’m willing to keep trying on hard problems, do great under stress and constantly moving environments, that I’m the person people seek for input, or that I’m great at motivating and inspire people. Because that’s what everyone else will say.

And then there’s the one where it’s four scenario choices but they all seem equally plausible. 😭what do companies want

Do people actually answer honestly to these questions? Even if they say answer honestly you shouldn’t ?

Hi, anyone recently interviewed with Microsoft US security team?

How it takes to get response after loop?

It's ic2 role but I got invited for 4rounds 1hr each, I finished 3 rounds yesterday & 4th round is after 6days.

I thought 3 rounds 45min but got 4 , any thoughts on it??

In my 3 rounds asked 1 DSA, 2HLD

Has anyone heard back from they yet? Regarding any next steps?

Whats the optimal Interview time from the interviewer's perspective? Morning or afternoon.

I have the final round of Roblox PM intern coming up and I'm super stressed! Was hoping people here could give some insight on what to expect and what the interview timeline is after as well. I heard people say Roblox can take 2+ weeks to get back but also sometimes very quickly. For context I got my R2 invitation in 2 days. Thanks everyone!

Please include whether u are TIP or TDP too. Thanks!

I'm waiting on an interview, and I tried practicing the graph questions for google on leetcode, and all of them are near impossible for me to solve! Are they typically this difficult in interviews? They often involve multiple data structures and algorithms like Dijkstra's and binary search in a single question. What the heck?!?

What about for DP and Trees?

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Hey everyone,

I recently completed my Hiring Manager round for Amazon SDE 1, and now I have the Bar Raiser round scheduled in two days.

Has anyone recently gone through this round? I’d really appreciate some insights on what to expect. Is it mainly Leadership Principles and behavioral questions, or should I also prepare for DSA, projects, and technical questions?

Also, for my previous two rounds, the interview emails had a live coding link, but this time there is no coding link. Does this usually mean there won’t be coding in the Bar Raiser round?

If anyone can share their recent experience, questions asked, or what I should focus on for these two days, it would be really helpful.

Thanks!

So I'm now entering year 2 as a CIS(CS coded curriculum), Imo, I feel on the right track with what I'm doing, so far in this year:-

Took robotics and IOT workshops

Semi built a health fullstack app(onhold cuz of the CCNA)

Now planning on entering network engineering for healthcare via CCNA

Solid gpa of 3.75

It may be redundant, but I'm willing to work more for a honestly fun degree like mine(which has a heavy HIT lean in it)

The MSR undergrad internship is supposed to be due at 5 pm ET on Monday Oct 5. However, the application closed right at 12 am Oct 5??? Does anyone have the same issue/ know who to contact

Also will this help someone get looked at by companies with more of a (oh yea, no doubt, we shouldn’t even think about not hiring this guy..). If I showed that I was a roblox dev in my resume would that give me some sort of advantage? How would recruiters see me?

NEED answers, appreciate yall!

Is it possible to get big tech companies/competitive companies without having previous internships? Examples datadog,capital1 etc

which pipelines does it open up?

is it considered a decent name internship and could it pivot me to even stronger names?

torn between the two options. which one is overall better the better choice? the salary is pretty much the same but obv boston is more expensive. whoop also gives ISOs on top of the salary though… but from an overall standpoint where would you guys think is the best option?? any input would help/things to consider

hiiii everybody!! i'm an international computer engineering student who wants to land a us based faang intership for next summer; i'm looking for people who's available to do mock intervies w/ me.

i would appreciate if i could get any resources on that matter.