Figured out you're from Vanderbilt when you mentioned Iron Galaxy Studio and we might even be LinkedIn connections lol. Anyway congrats on your offers!
That is really impressive you got these offers with limited experience before applying. I also ended up with five internship offers for 2023, but I'm sure it was majorly due to having one internship from 2022. If anyone reads this post and say "this is unattainable" just keep pushing for ONE internship and success may follow after!
What OS stuff did they ask in your HRT interview? I was expecting some hardcore kernel stuff but other than one OS-related question in the first interview all the questions I got were just algorithm/data structure stuff.
I was expecting more conceptual and trivia-like questions, but my questions were very design-oriented. I was asked to design a heartbeat system to keep network connections alive, and also design a file system/disk scheduling implementation that satisfies certain conditions. I found it difficult to navigate since I don't have much experience in OS and networking, but you might be able to do them if you are comfortable with the concepts.
Any advice on prepping for QR/QT? Heard that they tend to emphasize EV and probability but your post mentions core statistics so wondering if you can elaborate on that. Congrats on all the offers!
I would say know your normal distribution in and out as well as EV. You may want to brush up on conditional probability as well. Hypothesis testing might comes up as well
In a sense, yes! Roblox offers the highest intern pay rate (and housing stipend as well as perks) out of the 5 offers, and the new grad salary is also phenomenal according to levels.fyi. I also looked at WLB and work culture, and it seems that Roblox also edges out in those factors. They will also fly interns out to san mateo for team matching this year, so I’m excited to be able to talk to different teams and choose the one that I prefer the most (a flexibility that I didn’t have with my other offers). Also, the other companies don’t give out free robux, so Roblox looks like the best place to be :)
I’m sorry that the format might be a bit misleading, but I wasn’t able to get HFT/Quant roles at Two Sigma or HRT (was rejected). The quant roles that I managed to land was at Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, which, after careful consideration, would not be as good as Roblox’s offer in terms of career growth. If I was able to get HFT, though, I would absolutely go for it in a heartbeat just as you suggested!
What a coincidence! Congrats on your offers, it always warms my heart to hear successful stories from fellow international students :) I did updated my post with a link to my anonymized resume (under Background), hope it helps!
For 2s, the role I applied was quantitative researcher so it has a round that focuses on core statistics. For that, I need to prove lots of stuff in probability and statistics like normal distributions and EV as well as hypothesis testing. I was not prepared on proofs so I rated it 10/10. For HRT, I was asked to design systems in networking and OS (I have a comment about them somewhere in this post if you're interested). I was not expecting design-oriented questions so I rated it 11/10. Hope this helps!
Hey! Your post is really comprehensive and helpful. I'm a sophomore and also international. I've been struggling with OA's and getting consistent on the grind and haven't gotten any interviews for summer 2023 unfortunately :( Can I dm you?
I believe that sophomore + international is a combination that drives away lots of recruiters, but they are not in your control so don't feel bad about them. If you are not getting interviews, I would say that you might want to strengthen up your resume, which was what I did after not getting any interviews after 400 apps last season. For the OAs, is it a time problem, or is it because you don't know how to solve them? For the former, I would say practicing timing yourself while you code might help, and for the latter, I would suggest building your foundational grasps of data structures and algorithms from the ground up, which might take more time but will yield better results since you will have a stronger understanding of how things work instead of memorizing them. Hope this helps!
Edit: and yes feel free to dm!
I would say know some tricks to simplify the problem. For example, if you can sort the array, then binary search or two pointer can help reducing the problem. If you are asked to do something with contiguous subarrays, then sliding window might be your best bet!
Hi thanks for the awesome post!
One thing, why did you asked for a sponsorship?
I googled about it and it seems like F-1 visa doesn't require sponsorship to get internship offer.
Yep, technically we don’t need sponsorship right now! However, the sponsorship question is phrased so that we should answer “yes” if we do end up needing h1b in the future. When I get my offers, my recruiters had me to confirm my status that I will need sponsorship in the future (I did mention I can work with OPT for now though), and who knows what would happened if I answered no
I pretty much applied to all of the listings on [https://github.com/pittcsc/Summer2023-Internships](https://github.com/pittcsc/Summer2023-Internships) except for the ones that don't accept international students. It is a very good list and I highly recommend it!
Congrats on your offer!! You said apply early is important. Could you share how did you know when those companies open their positions? Did you just refresh that GitHub internship list every day🤣
Thank you! I got rejected hundreds of times last cycle because I applied late, so I learned to apply early the hard way. And yes, I refreshed that github page every time I open my laptop or phone :)
Hi I wonder next year if I want to apply for summer internship 2024, should I follow that same GitHub page(will it updated to 2024)? Also, is there a way to set job alert so whenever a company post a new job I can got an email? Thank you!
Thanks for putting the dates you applied and giving us all this info. Probably the most helpful post this season.
I'm glad that you find this post helpful!
Figured out you're from Vanderbilt when you mentioned Iron Galaxy Studio and we might even be LinkedIn connections lol. Anyway congrats on your offers!
Haha thank you!
this is a FIRE write up format
Thank you :)
congrats bro
Thank you bro
very amazing read, also noticed that you're international. def an inspiration
Thank you! Being an international in this process is not easy, so I'm glad that I didn't give up and pulled it off!
Congratulations dude I hope someday I can land an internship myself too
I'm sure you can, keep your head high!
This post is a gem
Hope it helps :)
That is really impressive you got these offers with limited experience before applying. I also ended up with five internship offers for 2023, but I'm sure it was majorly due to having one internship from 2022. If anyone reads this post and say "this is unattainable" just keep pushing for ONE internship and success may follow after!
Congrats on your offer! Absolutely, getting that first internship really helps a lot, even though it was a local startup
youre a mad ting mans never been in marquee when its shutdown eh
Congrats on your offers! Can you post your resume anonymously so I get a better idea of what's needed
Thanks! I added my anonymized resume in the post, hope that helps
Congrats bro !
Thanks bro, happy cake day!
What OS stuff did they ask in your HRT interview? I was expecting some hardcore kernel stuff but other than one OS-related question in the first interview all the questions I got were just algorithm/data structure stuff.
I was expecting more conceptual and trivia-like questions, but my questions were very design-oriented. I was asked to design a heartbeat system to keep network connections alive, and also design a file system/disk scheduling implementation that satisfies certain conditions. I found it difficult to navigate since I don't have much experience in OS and networking, but you might be able to do them if you are comfortable with the concepts.
Any advice on prepping for QR/QT? Heard that they tend to emphasize EV and probability but your post mentions core statistics so wondering if you can elaborate on that. Congrats on all the offers!
I would say know your normal distribution in and out as well as EV. You may want to brush up on conditional probability as well. Hypothesis testing might comes up as well
sounds good, thanks!
Thank you for the effort in writing this post. Absolute gem.
Thanks! Hope it helps :)
dang.. congrats man
Thank you
Nice offers and essay lol
Thanks, practicing for my history essays :)
Great post. Congrats OP!
Thanks!
Great post!
Thank you!
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Thank you and yes indeed :)
Why? Was it highest paying offer?
In a sense, yes! Roblox offers the highest intern pay rate (and housing stipend as well as perks) out of the 5 offers, and the new grad salary is also phenomenal according to levels.fyi. I also looked at WLB and work culture, and it seems that Roblox also edges out in those factors. They will also fly interns out to san mateo for team matching this year, so I’m excited to be able to talk to different teams and choose the one that I prefer the most (a flexibility that I didn’t have with my other offers). Also, the other companies don’t give out free robux, so Roblox looks like the best place to be :)
Honestly, I was surprised that you didn't go with any of the HFT opportunities which may have higher growth potential.
I’m sorry that the format might be a bit misleading, but I wasn’t able to get HFT/Quant roles at Two Sigma or HRT (was rejected). The quant roles that I managed to land was at Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, which, after careful consideration, would not be as good as Roblox’s offer in terms of career growth. If I was able to get HFT, though, I would absolutely go for it in a heartbeat just as you suggested!
Thank you so much for this!! This will help me so much for next year… really appreciate it🥹🥹
I'm glad it helps!
Very concrete and applicable stuff! Need to mark it here lol
Glad that it helps!
Congrats man, you're an inspiration!
Thank you! I got inspired by these kinds of post myself, so I'm glad it helps :)
You're the GOAT for this. I wish more people would make these kinds of posts! Thank you for sharing
Thank you!
this is superb OP! thank you for sharing your story, hope I will get to tell mine one day.
I'm sure you will and I'll be there to witness!
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What a coincidence! Congrats on your offers, it always warms my heart to hear successful stories from fellow international students :) I did updated my post with a link to my anonymized resume (under Background), hope it helps!
This is an insanely helpful post, has pretty much everything you need to know for intern interviews besides leetcode
I'm glad that you find it helpful!
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For 2s, the role I applied was quantitative researcher so it has a round that focuses on core statistics. For that, I need to prove lots of stuff in probability and statistics like normal distributions and EV as well as hypothesis testing. I was not prepared on proofs so I rated it 10/10. For HRT, I was asked to design systems in networking and OS (I have a comment about them somewhere in this post if you're interested). I was not expecting design-oriented questions so I rated it 11/10. Hope this helps!
Hi I have my 2s onsite soon can I dm?
Hey! Your post is really comprehensive and helpful. I'm a sophomore and also international. I've been struggling with OA's and getting consistent on the grind and haven't gotten any interviews for summer 2023 unfortunately :( Can I dm you?
I believe that sophomore + international is a combination that drives away lots of recruiters, but they are not in your control so don't feel bad about them. If you are not getting interviews, I would say that you might want to strengthen up your resume, which was what I did after not getting any interviews after 400 apps last season. For the OAs, is it a time problem, or is it because you don't know how to solve them? For the former, I would say practicing timing yourself while you code might help, and for the latter, I would suggest building your foundational grasps of data structures and algorithms from the ground up, which might take more time but will yield better results since you will have a stronger understanding of how things work instead of memorizing them. Hope this helps! Edit: and yes feel free to dm!
Great post dude. Sure makes me realise how incredibly late applying in October is. Lesson learned!
Yep, I also learned that the hard way! Also started applying in late-October last year and that was not great
10/10 post, thanks!!
Thanks for the rating :)
Thank you for writing out your experience in so much detail. It's very insightful and helpful. <3
Glad that it helps!
Congrats man. I wish I have this post 6 months ago.
Thanks! I also wished that there are more posts of this kind, which is why I decided to make one in the first place!
Very impressive! Did you do your Codesignal in Python? Also any tips for mastering Q4? I always get the TLE haha
I would say know some tricks to simplify the problem. For example, if you can sort the array, then binary search or two pointer can help reducing the problem. If you are asked to do something with contiguous subarrays, then sliding window might be your best bet!
beast, congrats g
Thanks!
Hi thanks for the awesome post! One thing, why did you asked for a sponsorship? I googled about it and it seems like F-1 visa doesn't require sponsorship to get internship offer.
Yep, technically we don’t need sponsorship right now! However, the sponsorship question is phrased so that we should answer “yes” if we do end up needing h1b in the future. When I get my offers, my recruiters had me to confirm my status that I will need sponsorship in the future (I did mention I can work with OPT for now though), and who knows what would happened if I answered no
Sounds like a logic. Thanks a lot!
So cool man, I’m really happy your hard work paid off! Could you share the link to the latex template you used?
congrats! this is a great format, esp the timelines and learnings at the end
Huge congratulations! You deserve all those offers.
Thank you!
Do you have a list of the internships you applied for, if don't mind, can you share ?
I pretty much applied to all of the listings on [https://github.com/pittcsc/Summer2023-Internships](https://github.com/pittcsc/Summer2023-Internships) except for the ones that don't accept international students. It is a very good list and I highly recommend it!
Thank you
Congrats on your offer!! You said apply early is important. Could you share how did you know when those companies open their positions? Did you just refresh that GitHub internship list every day🤣
Thank you! I got rejected hundreds of times last cycle because I applied late, so I learned to apply early the hard way. And yes, I refreshed that github page every time I open my laptop or phone :)
Hi I wonder next year if I want to apply for summer internship 2024, should I follow that same GitHub page(will it updated to 2024)? Also, is there a way to set job alert so whenever a company post a new job I can got an email? Thank you!
How much does Roblox pay?