european321

Not sure if this is still the case, but at least before MIT didn't accept people outside MIT to their Master's programs for some majors, instead you would have had to apply directly to a PhD program

In my experience that's not the case, but of course varies company by company

Look for series B+ startups in the U.S. that are aggressively scaling their teams. There is a shortage of good senior software engineers, and these startups are desperate and have the money, so many are offering base salaries that are around $200k

I wonder why Chrome even has such setting, like what's the use case for it?

Sure, you have a visa for me? I will be on the next flight over if so

Management consulting, Investment banking, UI/UX design, Product management are some alternative careers I have heard software engineers pursue

As a Finn, working at an U.S. company, small talk is something I really struggled with and still don't fully understand. The people I interact with it seems like we have found sort of a middle ground, where people obviously still ask "How are you?", but people still feel comfortable to answer "Not so well, XYZ happened". Maybe I'm naive but I feel like that helps prevent issues from getting too big and offers a safe space to share how you feel and get compassion from your peers.

No, I think they said that they think that "working" towards an idea, a moonshot, wouldn't feel like working

Ok that's great to hear, thanks for clarifying

Render had some pretty bad outages (10+ hours) and couple shorter ones just couple months ago, so it's not perfect either. But anyways I have also found it better than Heroku for my projects, it's even easier to setup than Heroku and pricing is slightly better too (especially the free static sites).

Haha, ever heard of winter tires? Or winter driving instruction courses? Which btw are mandatory at least in Finland

It depends on what your goals are.

People applying to intern positions have insanely widely varying skill levels. Some already have some previous experience and/or extensive side projects, some may have just started programming in university and might be "clueless" about many things. So you will want to have some coding challenges or technical interviews (obviously doesn't have to be and in many cases shouldn't be some algorithmic challenge or some other bullshit like that), for assessing if this person has the skills to be able to fulfill the basic requirements of the job.

Assuming you are also looking to hire interns for full-time after, you will want to assess if they are able to learn things, how do they work in a team, and overall how do they fit into the company/culture/industry.

I had a funny experience with DataDog. I applied to a new grad position. Few months go by, and then I receive an email to schedule an onsite, well that seemed odd since I hadn't done any coding test, recruiter call or anything else. I scheduled an on-site and went there. I tried asking what the normal process is, and everyone just kept replying "you are on the last step". So I just ended up going through the interviews. Then couple days after received an email that someone had checked the paperwork and said that they had thought I was someone else lol

Obviously sucks, had a similar experience as an SWE intern and new grad. I even got a written offer which was then later rescinded because of COVID. They said they will honor it for the next cycle, but of course they didn't. After reaching out they wanted to do new full interview loop, and then at the end said "Sorry we don't have any headcount left for this anymore".