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20 months, 5 internships, 1 vacation / part 4 of 3

Hi readers, I’m back to conclude the series. I’m no intern anymore – I’m not even on my first full-time job anymore – but I wanted to complete this series in honour of the young, starry-eyed intern Marian who dreamt up this blog three years ago. The industry has changed—is changing—rapidly, but my takeaways hold true about work in general, software or otherwise. Maybe sections of part 2: how to get a return offer are irrelevant now with AI (wow, I thought I’d get a few more sentences in before I had to mention AI), but I still stand by the other bits. In the previous post, I talked about…

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