Job Search Advice for SWEs
Source: Advice for Less Experienced Software Engineers in the Current Tech Market - The Pragmatic Engineer Reading this as an international student really scares me, currently contemplating whether I should go into grad school now. I applied to 80 copmanies so far for a summer internships with Tesla on my resume, and I only have 2 ongoing interviews now — Glassdoor and ServiceNow. Hopefully these turn into offers so I don’t have to burn myself out and apply to 300+ companies again like last year. Final words, LinkedIn FAANG intern announcements are all survival bias, it doesn’t reflect the reality of most people, or how challenging it I to get started. There’s hope, once you’ll make it in, it will only get easier with every passing year. Some more advice from hacker news thread Treat job search as a channel to optimize at every step Related
Source: Advice for Less Experienced Software Engineers in the Current Tech Market - The Pragmatic Engineer Reading this as an international student really scares me, currently contemplating whether I should go into grad school now. I applied to 80 copmanies so far for a summer internships with Tesla on my resume, and I only have 2 ongoing interviews now — Glassdoor and ServiceNow. Hopefully these turn into offers so I don’t have to burn myself out and apply to 300+ companies again like last year. FAANG or Bust No more Resume don’t be picky with offers One line advice Job search funnel FAANG or
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