Currently not an engineer, but have a CS degree. Completed 150+ leetcode medium, 15 hard I have been applying to various SWE positions, and getting mostly rejections. Getting to one on-site at C3.ai, dropbox seemingly ghosted from after passing initial tech screen :( Waiting on some referrals from companies, but wondering if I could be missing something besides keep on applying. Any tips appreciated. TC: 169k YOE: 2-3
What are you switching from? If you have any public coding projects, add them to your CV/resume. One of the main thing a recruiter is trying to answer is “can this person pass a general coding interview”.
No coding projects unfortunately. But that is a good point, I should make it easy for them to gather signals that I can pass the coding interview. Any tips on a good place to start?
Easiest: You can post your solutions for leetcode problems you find interesting to GitHub. Significantly better than nothing, gives clear signal. Harder : build a project around your interests. * Say you like sports, you could build a fantasy game (lots to do there). * Say you want to study trends in web or food or jobs, you could build a web (or Twitter?) crawler to scrape relevant data, then visualize it over time.
How many applications thus far?
What’s your current role?
I work with engineers a lot, but I don't do coding.
So PM? Honestly I think PM is better for career in the long run unless you really like coding
It might not be a good signal that you majored in CS but didn’t pursue it as a career. Did you hate it?
Good question. I was another engineering major at the time, didn't get any SWE internships, so took another internship. I was in the process of switching at the time, and finalized the switch the internship. I did take the intership offer as it was a job
Don't join c3 regardless of tc.
“She ,her” 🤪