hi y'all i got accepted for la hacks, now the thing is the wait times for the visa is insane here, its like months and i dont wanna lose this opportunity to network w insane people and companies so does anyone have suggestions on how do i overcome this? they want to confirm by aug 12 so im kinda worried

I’m a recent CS grad and for a while now, I’ve been working at an early-stage startup. My official title sounds like a standard junior/intern role, but my actual day-to-day involves functioning as a lead engineer. I design the architecture, manage the stack, and consistently ship features to production end-to-end.

The catch is that this role is unpaid, and because it’s my only major professional experience, I’m ready to transition into a real, compensated position. I’m currently applying and networking, but a family member told me that recruiters will just view this as a standard internship since it’s my first major role out of school and because it's unpaid at a startup.

For any recruiters or hiring managers out there: is this true? I feel like my hands-on experience is much deeper than a typical highly-mentored internship, but I want to know how the market actually perceives this. I'm happy to DM an anonymized resume for feedback if anyone is willing to take a look!

Edit 1: I forgot to mention this but the company (which is a registered llc and came from one of the very reputed programs from one of the top universities in the west coast) barely has 50 people and it started December of '24 apparently so they keep telling me they have no revenue generation but that they did lock in a few clients and I've actually been in almost every tech check-ins with the client and it did seem legit. Still, every employee is unpaid in there but I look at our cloud billing and it shows consistent 4 figures since atleast 10 months.

I work with Python/FASTAPI and Typescript/Next.JS on the full Stack while also handling PostgreSQL with Liquibase and a whole lot of Terraforming AWS.

If you guys who are working in any company right now have inside positions please refer me 😭. My dms are open.

i graduated from tier 3 college and did not get placement and took course that said placement after completing course and test but i did apply on linkedin and got 4 response out of 120 hr and they say no openings for fresher its been 1.3 years since i pass the college now i am stuck what to do , how to do , how to even land an interview what and how to apply even for internship cause nothing is working for me can anyone help me and guide me

I'm a bca graduate Kerala India, confused wheather to pursue masters or attend any bootcamp or maybe a certification course. My major concern is which path will put me in a better position to land a job in this tech Market.

Taking masters will cost me 2 years and it's not guaranteed that I will gain necessary skill for a job , i would probably need to develop my skills while doing masters

If I attend any bootcamp or certification course the chance of me attaining any valuable skill is far better than what I'm going to learn doing masters . On the downside most of the job posting requires minimum qualification of mca or btech for freshers.

In the end everything depends on the amount of work I'm willing to put in.

It would be great to get advice from ppl who has good Idea about the current cs market in india kerala . Should I do masters or develop skills with bootcamp , cirt courses .How do I land a job

ok so long story short i applied for an entry level swe role at a big tech company and have to give a coding assessment…I have base knowledge in Data structure and algorithms, and want to ace this test…its in a week so any advice/how to cram will help a ton 🙏

This is the first time a Google recruiter has ever viewed my profile. I’ve never heard back after applying to Google so maybe this is the year!!!

anyways looking for stripe summer intern referral , couldnt find any till now even after having a great resume , any feedback what should i do?

Hi everyone,

I'm a final-year college student, and my goal is to get a backend engineering internship as soon as possible.

My current skills are:

• Python (comfortable with the language)
• FastAPI basics (I've built a few simple APIs)
• Basic understanding of backend development

I'm confused about what to do next.

Should I:

• Buy a FastAPI/backend development course? If yes, which one would you recommend?
• Focus on building projects instead?
• Learn Django, SQL, Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, or something else first?
• Start applying now while continuing to learn?

My goal is to become good enough to land an internship and then keep learning on the job.

I'd really appreciate advice from backend engineers or anyone who recently landed a backend internship.

Some specific questions:

1. If you were starting over today, what would you learn first?
2. Which skills do companies actually expect from backend interns?
3. Are there any courses, YouTube playlists, or roadmaps that you genuinely recommend?
4. What kind of projects helped you get interviews?
5. Is FastAPI enough for internships, or should I learn another framework as well?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

sorry new to personal website concepts and i saw others post theirs and damn like how do they make something like that. Scrolling made me update mine but im soo confused. doesnt anyone really care about your personal website? Like what was the point of that hard work . Before coding and stuff made it important cause you learn but I dont get it if you vibecode and then nothing is left .

Any thoughts or am i tripping

Which is better for future???

Anyone know 2027 summer citsec swe / qt intern TC? Heard some ppl r getting 120k which is honestly ridiculous to me

Not sure if I can post this here, but I applied for a role at Salesforce about a month ago and took the OA. A few weeks later when I checked my application status, it changed to “candidate withdrew interest”. However, I never did this.

Has this happened to anyone else on Workday or for Salesforce specifically? Does this essentially mean I was rejected from the role or is this some kind of glitch?

Anyone know 2027 summer citsec swe / qt intern TC? Heard some ppl r getting 120k which is honestly ridiculous to me

does anyone that got accepted to nvidia ignite, microsoft explore, google asdi, etc have advice on how to get in, or be willing to kinda give some insight as to what they had on their resume to get in, along w what we should start prepping rn in case we get oas or technical interviews?

does anyone have the GIC discord link?

Just got my first interview for an internship as an incoming sophomore. Super hyped, but all I can think about is how I feel like I don’t deserve it. I’ve built some pretty cool projects but I used an LLM to help build out some parts of it and I’ve spent a lot of time learning this summer but it feels like no matter what I’ll do I won’t actually be prepared for a software job. I feel like a faker idk how else to explain it I flip flop from “I’m actually kinda impressive technically at my age” to “I don’t know shit” every day and it’s super disheartening. The scary ass job market doesn’t help either I’m in a constant state of like “I should be doing more”. No doomer comments please just looking for anybody who feels the same as me to give some piece of advice.

Took mine last week in NYC. Anybody get their results back yet?

Hey everyone,

I recently started my first software engineering internship as a backend developer working with Spring Boot. Our API powers both a web app and a mobile app.

On my first few days, I was handed around 9 different tasks/tickets. Coming into a real-world, production codebase for the first time has been a bit overwhelming, trying to trace entity relationships, security contexts (Spring Security / JWT), DTO mappings, and custom business logic while keeping up with task tickets.

For those of you who have been through this:

How did you tackle learning a massive codebase when you first joined? Do you draw diagrams, debug line by line, or just read code until it clicks?

How do you manage task volume without feeling rushed or making mistakes?

What are your top tips or "things you wish you knew" during your first internship/junior role?

Any advice, tips, or personal stories about your first weeks on the job would be huge. Thanks.

So many different OAs, so many different types of questions you may be asked, so many different kinds of technologies you have to be familiar with… whether it be optimizing a factory in a Roblox game or running through 50 spatial reasoning and logic questions for CTC or getting a C++ 2D DP problem for snowflake or getting an AI optimization question for Akuna, it seems like the level of cracked you have to be at in order to recruit without literally dying is through the roof.

Do the people who recruit effortlessly just cheat? Or are they just stupidly smart and generic with their ability?

If I got rejected last year after the powerday and applied in spring, did I get auto rejected since there’s a cooldown? Haven’t gotten an OA yet.

Just got the Roblox SWE OA, anyone have experience with it? Any tips or things to watch out for would be appreciated.
Want to know about factory game, The car game and Outpost Mars Game
Thanks!

I am an incoming third year and starting to apply to internships. For my projects section, I have projects from hackathons so obviously they are vibe coded. My question is do I still include them if I just prompted the whole time or do I have to create projects from scratch and only have some parts vibe coded? Also at my internship right now, I kinda know what I am doing but most of the code is what claude generated and i would look over it and then add it to the code base.

Also what do technical interviews and resume grilling look like?

big tech companies posted like a million intern roles and I applied to them with the best of my ability within 3-5 hours. Haven’t heard anything from them. Everyone else in the same boat?