How I got internships at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon (Software Engineering)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2019
- In this video I talk about my approach to my first Computer Science classes, my basic strategy for the recruiting process, landing my first job and internship, and then getting multiple offers at companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and Lyft.
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“Rejections cost you nothing”， ”Learn the hard way”， Respect bro
So true
For a freshman to be taking Data Structure and Algorithms courses and getting an internship as a Freshman means you're pretty dang smart. Cheers mate! :)
Aristides Gonzalez because in most CS curriculums in big universities, data structures and algorithms are taken late Sophomore-Junior year
Hey bro I just graduated from UC Berkeley and this video really opened my eyes. I think a lot of people think that anyone who is STEM can get an internship or job easily, but it takes a lot of effort. I think it’s amazing that not only are you invested in your technical skills, but you balance it out by truly “never giving up”.
Omg seriously excellent fucking video motivational and practical. I've watched some other videos that are even longer that aren't even half the quality of this one. Looking forward to more of your stuff man.
Thank you so much!! Working really hard on it, and I appreciate the support. Please feel free to share this with anyone you think might find it helpful!
The best time to watch this video is one year ago. The second best is now. Thank you so much for providing such a great video!
Lol I got rejected by these tech giants my first year, then landed interviews this past year but failed them (still got an offer somewhere good thankfully), but this year is the year to get through the door
Hope things worked out for you
thank you for sharing your experience Chris, you have nothing to lose but evetything to win.
Great video! Definitely can relate. Straightforward but a lot of work and self motivation.
Thank you for this I needed this 😢
You're one of the realest tech youtubers out there
your videos are so helpful and straight to the point! thanks mate!
your experience is very helpful and the video is instructive enough to watch. Respect.
I relly love it one "Rejections cost you nothing", Huge Respect bro .
OMG this is the type of content we need! Thanks man!
My pleasure 😁 feel free to share!
This is soooo great!
This motivated me a lot as now I am looking for my first job after internship, and I got rejected from big companies, I feel upset and thinking myself is very useless. But as you said, rejection does not cost anything but it help us to do more better in the next time.
Keep it up and I am looking forward for your new videos! ☺️☺️☺️
This video was so helpful, I can’t even put it into words. You’ve got a new subscriber bro.
Thanks so much! Glad you found it valuable - happy to see you around the channel!
I'll have my first onsite interview ever next week.. with Amazon! I already know I'm probably going to bomb it because I lack interview experiences, but this video really inspired me to continue studying and learning!
The key is not to be scared of failure.
Thanks for the video!
@Ahmed Nuur yes, I got past the onsite and they want to make me an offer! Still can't believe it. Overall I would say it was not so hard how one might imagine
Love you videos😄
Funny, interesting, knowledgeful all together. 👌
Completed first year in CS ,gotta find internships ☺️
Damn. This guys got all big giants covered. Proud of you boi.🙌🔥
Thank You brotha!!
Thank you. I learnt a lot.
Amazing video telling all my friends to subscribe man
Thanks subscribed keep up the good work ❤️
Sick outro man! Lol. Great and informative video!
I started with Salesforce development for my first industry job too :)
Awesome video. This was the most helpful video about getting internship
This video...
is...
so...
amazing...
This guys has got the right stuff
Wish I saw this video freshman year, I'm entering my junior year right now with not internships under my belt and I'm starting to panic, I've been watching all your videos and they are really giving practical advice and motivating me to work harder, I really love what your doing bro
Thanks so much Nathanael!! I appreciate the support and I'm glad you find this helpful - this comment is very motivational haha. Good luck with the internship hunt, and let me know if there's anything I can do to help
Keep posting the vids because when I get my first Intership I'll remeber you.
Will do 😤😤😤
it's a very informative video thank you bro
Synopsis -
Just make your DS Algo Skills effing crazy and the big 4 will fight for you .
Great Video. Can you make a video on getting a SWE internship for an International student in US?
Thank you for this video!!
My pleasure 👌👌
Chris Jereza yeah I’m a freshman in highschool and I was wondering what classes would be good for coding and computers
@@NorCaca probably coding and computer classes
"Rejections cost you nothing"
I've legit never thought of it in that way. Holy shit!!!
wow, this video really inspired me! thank u
My pleasure! Always happy to help, let me know if there's anything else I can do
Chris Jereza wanted to ask u, is studying in top universities is important for programming career? thx beforehand
Nice video!
Hey Chris! out of the blue I saw your videos in the middle of my studying. you know what? you boost my confidence and that is fucking motivational man. i am a fresh grad. and this coming wednesday I have a interview and programming exam that's why I'm studying almost 9hrs man. im so fcking high hahahaha "Just grind it out until it work it out" I remember this :D
Looking forward for more videos man..
Yooo thanks for the kind words - this is motivational for me too haha best of luck with your interviews. Feel free to shoot me a message on Instagram if you need any help!
Great video. Hearing a lot about Leetcode grind. Hope you can make a video on the same.
Yup! Will do
Good stuff man!
Thank you!
JUST. KEEP. GOING. I talked with an intern from Nvidia and his rejection to acceptance rate was extremely similar. Just keep going no matter how many set backs. The only way to fail is to quit yourself.
brilliant.
i fucking love this guy
Can you explain the process of an internship interview? Like you said there are 3 rounds or so, like what did you have to do and such
I wish you had way more viewers and subscribers cos you talk so much sense!!! Thanks!
I'm working on it! Thanks for the support :D Feel free to post my videos anywhere people might like them - any help is appreciated!
Great video! Do you know if rising-sophomore/junior interns get return offers as well? Or are they reserved for rising-seniors only?
Conclusion: using people
I just came across your channel, I already love it. :D
Could you ever make a video going more in detail about side projects? If you’re not the most connected (which at least at my college applies to almost every CS student), it’s kinda hard to come up with ideas from scratch. I and probably many others would really appreciate some help getting started with the first few projects. :)
Will do!!! Thanks for the suggestion - best of luck with your projects in the meantime
just subscribed!!
💯🔥👀🍾🍻🎉🎉🎉
What books do you use, i mean Algorithm and Data Strucutre at that time?
Could you explain how you script or format your videos?
Legend
i kno wat u r but wat m i
Here's another GREAT vid on how to get into Google: th-cam.com/video/vqB_9eSaflg/w-d-xo.html
very informative, liked :)
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful
Hi! I am a student and I wanna ask I want to do some projects on my resume but I do not know who I can ask
What about making a short video about yourself such as your high school experience, how you got accepted to UCBerkeley, how to stop procrastinating, how you were roasted by the TechLead,... stuff like that?
Yup!! Will do
Yooo just uploaded this video a few days ago - thanks for the suggestion
@@ChristopherJereza Awesome, thanks man !
the website that u have mentioned allow me to create a web app without coding?
how well did 61B prepare you for technical interviews? Did you find yourself having to do a lot of leetcode on top of what your learned in 61B in order to be prepared for interviews? How would you rate the difficulty of your internship interview questions? Leetcode medium? Thanks so much for a great video dude.
61B prepared me very well in terms of teaching me all of the content necessary. After 61B, knowing the content was not an issue - but then it all comes down to skill at interviewing, in which case 61B in irrelevant.
So yes, 61B did prepare me well, but the course alone isn't sufficient - I did about 80-90 leetcode problems afterwards, but with very calculated approaches for making each of them count. Interview difficulties ranged from Easy to Hard
I’m just about to start my freshman year at Purdue as a data science major and was wondering if you think I could still try for an internship with my only technical experience being a summer data science internship at cox.
Yup! I think so
What kind of begginer project need to be done to get internship or job as software developer or engineer
i legit thought you were trying to do the bottle cap challenge when you trying to kick microsoft
you're an efing good speaker bro
Thank you!
@@ChristopherJereza thnk u for noticing me senpai... help me work in silicon valley.. im broke hahahahaha
What are the requirements needed pls? I have degree in business administration! How can I get into it? What should I major in? Anyone?
I only just found your channel and when I saw this I was like, wow, that's pretty crazy. It took me 6 internships to get to any big name; how does one even get all of them? And when you were talking about career fairs and asking your friends and stuff, I was like, wtf? How do you get anywhere like Amazon using those techniques? The more I watched the video, the more confused I got. So I looked up your LinkedIn, and that's when I saw the kicker.
You went to Berkeley.
Oh, NOW everything makes sense. It's no wonder it was easy to find connections to those companies. I went to a state college in the southeast. I got my first out of state internship through a conference. And I got to that conference because of a scholarship. But when you go to a school like Berkeley, those companies are already recruiting at your school and in your area and finding connections to one is trivial.
It should be common sense to me at this point that if someone has a story like this, they went to some big name tech school and that's why they could do it. The first internship I got was working in a garage for $9/hr managing a small company's WordPress website because that was all I could get lol
"I got rejected by all of these companies at least once before"
My numbers:
Google: 7
IBM: 10
Amazon: 2
Facebook: 4
Microsoft: 3
Cisco: 5
Intel: 7
VMWare: 3
That's off the top of my head at least. My first and only big name internship was at Microsoft. I now work there
Awesome - keep up the great work!
That's damn inspiring!
Awesome!
What are the requirements needed pls? I have degree in business administration! How can I get into it? What should I major in? Anyone?
Wow😮 , I also got internship at Amazon and I am making videos on how to prepare!!
Dev i’ll be your watcher!
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Hi
Which company gave you the best experience? Amazon, Google, Facebook or Microsoft?
How is internships managed with college?? You gotta attend office as well as college!
Internships usually done during the summer, when students get a 3 month break from classes. I also took a year off school to do an extra internship
@@ChristopherJereza You should talk about how you got an internship when you're not in school because most internships require you to be in school and returning to school after the internship is over
@@ROFEL Truth is, at these companies, internships are really just a way to get entry level talent. They hire interns with the intention of evaluating them for hire into their entry level roles. If you can convince them that you fit the bill throughout your application process, it doesn't really matter to them whether you're returning to school or not.
I texted you my question on Instagram and u seen zoned me , I was so unhappy and sad. But thank you so much this is the exact answer which I was looking for. Thanks man!! Ur videos are awesome. If I get an internship at a FANG company ur dinner is on me.
Hey harshal! Sorry about that - kinda drowning in a bunch of things but I'll get back to you asap! If I don't, please feel free to keep messaging me (I promise I won't find it annoying haha)
@@ChristopherJereza thanks man u made my day with this reply. I hope I become like u some day. Cheers mate.
What college did you go to?
How do you get the contact info for these big companies? I apply for large ones and then I never know who to contact to follow up.
When possible, I tried to do get in the door more personally (instead of through online applications). Going to local tech events in the area, hackathons, messaging people online, referrals, and other stuff. I also used Google Foobar to get in touch with Google.
did u write cover letters for each of ur applications? i find applying to companies really tiring because i hate writing cover letters
Yes, for a good amount of them - you can generalize your cover letters for the most part and then just modify certain parts of it
you gained a subscriber for that "esketit" lmao
Cool! Thank you for your useful video. Do you have any ideas for immigrant asian like me? My English is so bad, I still have a hard time to speak. I always got reject from applying jobs. My goal I want to do intern in small company. How to get internship when I don't speak English? I'm sorry for my bad English.
Hey, English speaking will give you better edge but if you're very good at tech and impersonal skills, you need not to worry to much. You can apply to these big techies from their career website and if you have referral, then your chances of getting interviewed will increased. Hope this helps :)
Hey chris I am just finishing up an engineering internship and I want to try your method of using that for leverage on bigger and better companies. You said to reach out to those big companies, but I'm not sure how to reach out. Do you mean you literally sent an email to their general contact email, or did you email someone you had networked with in the company.
I would suggest just using literally any approach you have. If there was a very simple easy way to do this, everyone would be doing it and therefore it wouldn't be effective.
@@ChristopherJereza ok sounds good. Thanks!
@@conradfarrell3863 yeah no worries! So I would just do whatever you gotta do, but aim for the highest priority approach. So if you have a personal contact, do that. If you don't, but you have a general email, then just go for that
Subscribed!,,,, We gonna be together💪
Hi Chris I want to be your friend :v nice video btw
In your own personal opinion does school name matters when applying to top tech companies for internships?
Yes, it usually does
it does, but you can still get there from smaller schools, might have to do more work to prove yourself (e.g. do another internship at a smaller company)
How older are you
4:00 Se
6:00 Se
I like your hair style bro...
too much work, no thank im stick with small startup
as fast as possible.....is this by any chance a reference to the channel? 🤔
Techquicky i mean
Data stuct and algo in your freshman year?
Waterloo does that. Infact, every decently good university should be doing that.
When you applied to 100+ different companies, how did you make those searches? Google? If so what key words? Job posting website? If so which? Did you just apply to everything under software engineering intern?
There's no secret, I literally just googled "software engineering internship" and started applying
@@ChristopherJereza didn't know it was that easy. Thank Google.
How did you know who to contact at these companies? Share me this email list bro!
did you get any follow up from him
if u ask ma man for email addresses for companies, you aint gettin that internship. just google it ffs or go to linkedin and with 2 to 5 minutes of search im sure you can find bunch of emails
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Hi meek!
I want to become a ethical hacker but my mom wants me to go to college
How do you speak very well, i envy this kind of softskill
I just do a million takes until I get lucky haha I fill up an entire 128 GB SD card
You talk really fast and it gets difficult to follow. Great content and great videos!! Keep going!! (but please talk more calm so don´t have to stop the video to digest what you are saying!!) 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thanks so much! I'll take note of this and try to chill out in later videos haha
Lmao this guy kinda a G
No u
How did u cleared the interviews without doing competitive programming for data structure & algorithms..?🙄🙄
Wanna reply my question..?
Yeah.. i agree.
Word. I only made it to Amazon haha
Same year too 😂
We might've met at Amazon lmao; 7 mutual frens
@@SuboptimalEng Oh shoot, we might have! Whats up haha
What is your age
I'm 20
Chris Jereza wow. You are 20 but working at the big companies. I'm 22 and still studying computer science ar my college bc I started late. (I'm not American so my English is still weak)
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Can i be your friend?
Ya!
@@ChristopherJereza can you do a segment where you review resumés
@@ChristopherJereza the rejection is getting too much, need some help
Fuck, this field has no place for introverts
dont't be a try hard ....LOL