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Hello World: The Life of a Software Engineer

Eat Your Crust

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How Long Did You Prepare for the Internship Interview Process?

In terms of time that I took to prepare, I'd say leading up to the interview itself the month before I was just studying maybe an hour each day. Glassdoor is a really important tool because people who interviewed will put down what their interview process was like along with some of the questions that they were asked. So you can like focus a little more on those questions and tools that you have at hand. It's solely up to you to set your own pace, but you do have to go through the right resources to kind of make sure you're studying the right things.

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Speaker 3
Was the internship interview process a little less intense than full time
Speaker 1
ones? Yeah. So the internship interviews don't include an onsite. Some internships do. I think Facebook does that. But what it is, it's an onsite is where you go, you get flown out to the company and then you interview for like eight hours, which is like, that's brutal. Yeah, it's like five interviews total and then a lunch break where you talk where you have
Speaker 3
you still talk.
Speaker 1
You know, you're with the manager and the team. So it's kind of still an interview. Yeah. That one is like kind of seeing how you interact with the team and how. Yeah. It's a really long process for onsite interviews and usually it's reserved for full time jobs. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3
But yeah. Oh my God. Earlier we were joking with one of our friends because she's been interviewing for software engineering positions. And she's like, dude, I had to go through some like eight hour interviews. And I was like, dude, I don't even know if my brain is on for like eight hours a day. It's like,
Speaker 1
it's a marathon. Like, luckily, I think out of the five interviews though, only a couple of them are actually technical. Maybe two or three out of five and the rest are kind of just like with the manager. Yeah. Definitely culture for it. Because that's like, it's very, it's really important to fit with the culture of the company. They really stress that when you're getting hired.
Speaker 2
So you mentioned lead code and intern supply. Did you have any other resources that you used
Speaker 1
to prep for interviewing and how long would you say in total you actually prepped for interviews? Um, there's like hacker rank lead code. Oh, there's this big green book. Oh my God. I know that book. Like cracking the coding interview. Like if you buy that and look through it and read it, you'll definitely get a job somewhere 100%. In terms of time that I took to prepare, I'd say leading up to the interview itself the month before I was just studying maybe an hour each day. So I added up to a good amount at the end. Yeah. But I know people who definitely study a lot more than that and get jobs along with, you know, not studying as much, but still getting a job. Like, it's solely up to you to set your own pace, but you do have to go through the right resources to kind of make sure you're studying the right things. Oh, and yeah, so like Glassdoor is a really important tool because people who interviewed will put down what their interview process was like along with, you know, some of the questions that they were asked. Oh my God. So you can like focus a little more on like those questions along with, you know, the tools that you have at hand.
Speaker 2
At least you know, like even what type of question they would probably ask. Yeah. If it's not the specific question.
Speaker 3
Yeah, exactly.

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