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Hello World: The Life of a Software Engineer

Eat Your Crust

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Is It Easier to Be an Engineer?

I think one of the biggest obstacles is getting your first interview for your first job. I had to apply it up maybe I think out of 400 that I applied to in junior year, I got one callback. It's so hard because you have no real job experience yet on your resume. Sometimes you don't always necessarily need a major internship. For CS, if you want to get into the big dogs, you've for sure need an internship. There's this concept called FANG, F-A-A-N-G, which is like the top big companies to apply to.

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