Internship Guide

A list of links with a little bit of advice sprinkled in.

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Contents:

• Resume
  • Projects
  • Making a resume
• Applying
• Interview prep
  • Books
  • Study plan
  • Practice
• Resources

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Resume

Projects

Personal projects

Demonstrate your coding skills, these can be put on your resume and will be discussed in your interviews. Ideas:

• Reddit - Recruiters, what kind of CS projects impress?
• Reddit - Examples of Good Projects
• Antrikshy - How I got started with programming side projects
• Reddit - /r/learnprogramming project ideas

Open source contributions

Another way to demonstrate coding skills that recruiters love. Here are some links and guides:

• FreeCodeCamp - How to contribute to open source
• Github search for easy issues
• Github search for beginner issues
• Opensource guides

Making a resume

• Careercup resume
• Give your resume a face lift
• Reddit - Could we create a basic undergrad resume?

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Applying

Make a spreasheet of companies that you'd like to apply to. Have columns such as company name, website, application status, and similar. To find companies to apply to have a look at these websites:

• Github - easy application
• Intern.supply
• The Really Big Hugely Ginormous Tech Company List
• Your imagination! If there's a company you like, have a look on their website or send them an email (typically [email protected]).

Some companies will have a form online, but some you'll have to cold email. Apply to as many as you'd like, preferably 30+.

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Interview prep

Books

Here are some great books on the subject:

• Gayle McDowell – Cracking the Coding Interview
• Aziz, Lee, Prakash – Elements of Programming Interviews
• Giguere, Mongan, Kindler – Programming Interviews Exposed

Study plan

You need to know your stuff before you interview (obviously).

Algorithms

Algorithms to know:

• Sorting and searching
• Greedy
• Divide and conquer
• Tree traversal

Here are some resouces to perfect your algorithms knowledge:

• Palantir - How to Ace an Algorithms Interview
• GeeksforGeeks - Top 10 algorithms in Interview Questions

Data Structures

Data structures to know:

• Array
• Linked list
• Stack/Queue
• Tree
• Heap
• Hash tables
• Graphs
• Trie

General links:

• Columbia - Data Structures for Interviews
• GeeksforGeeks - Data Structures
• Top 50 Data Structures Interview Questions

Big-O

• Rob Bell - A beginner's buide to Big O notation
• Derek Banas - Big O Notations (YouTube)
• Big-O Cheat Sheet

Practice

Now put all that you've learned to practice! I've found the best sites for this are:

• Hackerrank
• Leetcode
• Interviewbit
• Project Euler

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Resources

Here are some general resources with brilliant communities and information:

• /r/cscareerquestions
• GeeksforGeeks
• Glassdoor
• CareerCup
• TutorialsPoint