How to Apply for a Job That's Closed Off to You

When you applied for that job through your friend, did you give them a resume that said, I'm a student in a computer science program? Mm-hmm, I did. And I imagine that helped get me through some early screening. If I had just up and applied out of nowhere without that, then maybe it would have been different. But also I knew my friend who worked at the company just the real thing. They did ask me, he still remember, they asked me some whiteboard question about finding pairs of numbers in an array that added up to a certain number.