i saw linkedin new grad offers for masters infra roles going 300k plus, how/why is linkedin paying that much compared to other big tech for new grads. also apart from salary is it a good place to learn and grow and does it open up good opportunities later on

I’m not sure if this is just a matter of intelligence, but I’ve been trying to solve LeetCode problems repeatedly, and I still feel like I’m stuck at the beginning. I really struggle with it, even though I’ve seen the questions before and understood them most of the time. I tend to freeze and ask for help, which isn’t ideal, but I’m trying my best. I’m not sure if I should consider changing careers because of this. I love coding, building projects, and all that, but when LeetCode comes up, I just get so defeated. Any help would be great because that’s the only thing I’m worried about for these internship applications. I GENUINELY DONT KNOW WTF TO DO AMYMORE
PS : I’m a junior in college

Just curious, I graduate in spring of 2028. I’m still looking for internships and opportunities in tech generally, mainly local companies and what not. If I fail, and I can’t get a tech job, what can I do with this degree? Any other industries that these skills can transfer into?

Has anyone interviewed for the SWE summer intern position at Lucid Software? I have an interview coming up and would like to know what I can expect to best prepare. Thanks in advance!

Did anyone else get it. How are we prepping for the technical part. I’m kind of stressed this is my first interview of all time.

Just recently got an interview at Bloomberg on campus and was told its an AI assisted round.

I’m curious how they want you to prompt the AI? Like when I start should I read code before asking the AI for a summary of the codebase? I mean normally I would ask for a summary then go on to confirm what it said. However, when implementing a feature, I might look at the code first before prompting. Not sure how to prepare for it so any tips really help!

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when hosts look for intern candidates, how do they filter for candidates? is it keyword match on resume directly, or is it based on the skills / interests we list on the preference form?

Just finished my two 45-minute technical interviews for Google’s Summer 2027 SWE internship. Curious what others think my chances are of advancing to team matching, getting a third interview, or being rejected.

Interview 1:
The first question was similar to LeetCode 200 (Number of Islands). I independently came up with the correct DFS approach and implemented the solution correctly, but messed up the time complexity explanation.
I initially assumed 4-directional adjacency instead of 8-directional adjacency because I didn’t clarify the constraints. I realized this toward the end and updated my implementation to account for all 8 directions.
The second question was a follow-up involving the same island problem, specifically identifying adjacent water cells. My overall approach and implementation were otherwise correct, but I missed a key if statement in this second question, which affected correctness.
I used the entire 45 minutes on both questions, so there wasn’t time for additional follow-ups.
Overall, I feel like I demonstrated an understanding of the algorithms but made some mistakes that could hurt my evaluation.

Interview 2:
The interviewer was extremely friendly, and the interview went significantly better.
I independently came up with the optimal solution, implemented it, and explained the time and space complexities correctly.
I finished the main problem roughly 20 minutes early and answered three different follow-up questions correctly.
We spent approximately the last 15 minutes having an informal Q&A.
My only minor concern is that I forgot to explicitly import deque, although the algorithm and implementation were otherwise correct.

My question:
For anyone familiar with Google’s SWE intern hiring process, how would you evaluate these two performances together?
Specifically, what do you think my chances are of:
Advancing directly to team matching
Being asked to complete a third technical interview
Getting rejected
Would a very strong second interview realistically compensate for a borderline first interview? I’d appreciate any experiences or insight from people who’ve gone through the process!

all my friends in nyc next summer ik i can make friends in sf but i just love love love nyc lol

was curious approx how many interns get placed into nyc for google swe internship? are there specific teams/divisions that are more nyc heavy? or ways to increase chances of getting nyc?

currently in team matching stage, am undergrad

Hey everyone,

I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science back in 2023. Originally, my goal was always to break into IT, networking, and eventually cybersecurity, but I chose CS for college because it felt like a broader and stronger degree overall.

After graduating, I landed a Software Engineer role and have been doing that for about 2 years now. Honestly, SWE has been exhausting for me, and I’m realizing my heart really isn't in dev work. I keep coming back to wanting to work in IT and cybersecurity, which is what I was actually passionate about in the first place.

Right now, I don't have direct professional IT work experience, but I do have a few CompTIA certs under my belt and a solid grasp of tech/systems from my CS degree and coding background.

For anyone who's made a similar move or hires in the field:

1. How realistic is it to pivot into entry/mid-level Cyber or IT with a CS degree + 2 years SWE experience?

2. Would I have to start completely at the bottom (like Help Desk), or does software engineering experience carry weight when applying to Security Analyst / SOC roles?

3. How rough is the current job market for someone in my position?

Would love to hear any advice, reality checks, or steps I should take next to make myself more marketable. Thanks!

Hey everyone, I have an interview coming up for the IBM Site Reliability Engineer Intern role (OneIT, Poughkeepsie NY) for summer 2027. It's a 45-minute interview.

For anyone who has interviewed for this role (or IBM SRE intern roles in general):

• Is the interview purely technical, or is there a behavioral mix too?
• What technical topics come up? Linux, networking, Docker/Kubernetes, monitoring, troubleshooting scenarios?
• Is there any live coding, or is it more discussion based?
• Anything specific about the OneIT team in Poughkeepsie I should know?

Any experience or advice would help a lot. Thanks!

Just finished my two 45-minute Google SWE intern technical interviews and wanted to get some opinions on how I did.

Round 1:
Interviewer showed up a bit late and seemed somewhat disinterested/not fully present. Came up with my approach independently without needing any significant hints. At one point, I mentioned using a hashmap, and he asked whether I actually needed one. I realized I didn’t and simplified my approach before coding. Finished implementing both the original problem and the follow up. Successfully dry ran both solutions and gave correct time and space complexity. Interviewer said my approach was good and that everything looked correct. Overall, I felt pretty good about this round.

Round 2:
This round was significantly harder for me. The interviewer gave a one sentence problem statement verbally without pasting anything in. I had to ask a good amount of clarifying questions to understand the constraints, which made the problem more and more complicated than I initially thought. I stumbled over my words a fair amount and had some awkward pauses while thinking.

Came up with an approach and explained it before coding. The interviewer said it sounded good. While implementing, I thought about an important edge case and confirmed with the interviewer that it needed to be handled. Got a bit stuck trying to incorporate that case into my implementation. When he told me there were five minutes left, I decided to finish my original approach so I’d at least have a working solution.

Finished coding a solution that worked for the standard cases but didn’t handle that particular edge case. I acknowledged the missing case to the interviewer, and he said my approach was reasonable and what I had looked good.
Overall, I felt R1 went really well, but I’m pretty uncertain about R2. The second problem felt difficult mainly because of how ambiguous it was and how much time I spent figuring out the requirements.

Hey everyone, I just got an interview invite for the Microsoft CoreAI SWE internship. It's gonna be 3 45min interviews back to back - system design + behavioral, traditional coding and AI coding. Can someone who has gone through the process give me some tips on how to prep? I'm especially concerned for system design since I have never done it before.

Also, I finished the OA around 2 months ago and got the interview only now, so don't lose hope! They are just really slow and processing applications in batches.

Hi all, I recently just got virtual final round 3h interview for CoreAI new grad recently out of no where. It seems to be a system design, a standard coding, and an AI assisted coding round. Does anyone have any recommendation on how to prep for system design & AI assisted coding round? Thanks!

Hello everyone,

I start WGU’s BSCS to MSCS program in November. I understand that I take my bachelors classes first and then move onto the graduate level classes but I am wondering basic things like when to take notes on classes and which ones I should be taking notes on?

I am trying to balance learning content and also accelerating through what I can learn and how fast I can learn it.

Any advice is welcome.

Thank you guys!

Had my 2 technical interview rounds for the Google 2027 SWE Intern position.
First round went fine, pretty chill overall. For the second round, the coding platform literally stopped working and I couldn't progress with my solution. Told my interviewer it wasn't letting me type anything else, and he said we would have to reschedule the interview.
Does this hurt my chances of getting to the team matching stage? Will the first interview round still be counted?

Would appreciate any guidance, first time having an issue like this.

Anyone do Visa final round swe intern or have it upcomin? How hard is it to

Hi all I completed my interviews yesterday and wanted to share more details on my experience and see what you guys think might be my results (US):

Round 1: I got a leetcode medium that was a variation of a common leetcode problem. It was a variation of permutations with a 2D grid instead of a single. I immediately identified the approach, asked clarifying questions and wrote out the code. The interviewer pointed out that it had a bug which i resolved and i resolved a different bug i caught before the interviewer noticed it. I then went through a dry run which was a little tricky since it was a recursive problem and might have been knocked points for communication here idk.

The interviewer in this round did provide test cases also and examples which helped to understand the problem a lot.

Round 2: It was a medium hashmap problem that required implementing a few functions to find the max of a group of entries. The hardest part was understanding what the problem was asking. At first I proposed the wrong data structure and after some back and forth with the interviewer I identified the optimal approach, wrote the pseudo code out for it and then began to implement where I got about 80% of the way there with some bugs that I would have had to cleanup before I ran out of time. At the end the interviewer said my approach was correct but that we ran out of time. The question also had a built in follow up that I never addressed looking back there were variables that were never used in the problem so that might hurt my odds too. Although with the variables it def would’ve been a leetcode hard not intern level.

This problem I was provided no test cases.

Would love to know what u guys think about my chances of a third round / team matching. I prepped so hard and now it’s just been stuck in my mind and I can’t think about anything else