Straight Refusal for the Internships
I have 3 years of experiences working as adminstrator in HR, but my duty included system administration and deployment with daily HR tasks - honestly not much of technical skills have been used. I also have a 3 months internship exp as a vendor at MS. I am applying for another internships from many different companies and I got one refusal from the Expedia Group for the SDE intern role the day after my application. btw I'm Senior in Information Systems program, graduating in Dec 2019. Trying for summer internship before graduating. Any idea why I got straight denial for the internship position and how to avoid it?
In this post you have talked a lot about your HR experience while saying nothing at all about your software development/CS skills. If that is how your resume looks then that might be why.
I tried to emphasize my technical portion of it rather than HR duties. My resume is full of techinical, position related keywords. any chance they think I am over-qualified for the internship?
No absolutely not
Is this from an actual, physical school? Or online university?
Can you solve algorithm and data structures questions on hackerrank/leetcode? Software Engineering and Support Engineers/IT professionals have two different job functions. From your degree naming, it seems you’d be more qualified for the latter. Look for opportunities in the IT space.
You got one rejection and you made a blind post about it? Hoo boy. You should expect a 5-10% response rate for resumes. This is even if you have a degree in CS. My background is in NLP, not CS specifically, and even I got ~11% response rate to my resume.
This. From what I hear most resumes get filtered out even ever reaching a recruiter. And with the OP's unconventional background, I think that's what's happening.
How is “information systems” different from CS, OP? Can you outline some key courses in your curriculum?
I had the same question and asked my professors and they were saying it is almost the same. The only difference would be that IS would also focus on the broad aspect of management (business) side while CS only focuses on... CS. The core courses for the IS and CS are basically the same (data structure, software engineering, etc.) just how deep it goes in would be different.
I'm sorry but I feel like you have been misled by your professor. IS major is more like a business degree with an intro to Java course. Personally I studied computer engineering but took lots of classes in CS. CS requires a strong mathematics background. I saw several students who couldn't meet the rigor of CS and math curriculum drop and go for the ITS major. This was before they even took an algorithms course since calc1,2,3 and linear algebra were pre reqs. I'm not saying you won't be a good programmer but saying IS is the same as CS + business is totally false.
Timing. Most companies hire interns during a specific period of time. Other than that period budgets and required headcount is already settled.
What is your major, why did you expect eng. position without proper education?
Information Systems is my major, still it is closely related to many tech titles I am applying for.
IT Systems is a bigger problem than your HR experience.