A Summary of My Internship Hunt for Summer 2023: Profile, Timelines, Thoughts, Application Process Difficulty Ratings, and What I Have Learned

Hi csMajors! I have found these types of posts very helpful during my internship hunt, so I decided to share my very own internship hunting journey this season. I hope that this will be helpful to she

Hi csMajors! I have found these types of posts very helpful during my internship hunt, so I decided to share my very own internship hunting journey this season. I hope that this will be helpful to shed some light onto what you can expect of the interviews of the mentioned companies or other companies in general! I was planning to dive into more details (wrote like 4,000 words lol but I think that is too risky and can be doxxed) for each of the application process, but I was wary of NDA-stuff so I am just going to provide the timeline for each and rate the difficulty of the process (behavioral, technical OA, technical interview, math if applicable) from 1 to 10, 1 being the easiest and 10 being the hardest. For example, a “1” behavioral question is like “Why us?” type of questions, and a 10 behavioral question is like “If you are put on Mars for a day, what kind of technology will you build (and with what tech stack and why), how would you choose your teammates, and how would you handle the conflicts with aliens?” type of questions. Likewise, a 1 technical question is like a fizzbuzz question, and a 10 technical question is like a leetcode DP hard question. Not the best way to shed light onto the application processes, but I will try my best (note that these are my personal experience, YMMV). For the offers, the compensation packages are the same as the ones listed on levels.fyi. # Background: Education: Junior majoring in honors math and CS at a T15 school (originally math, decided to add a second major in CS in sophomore year), not particularly known for its CS program. I have taken classes like discrete math, data structures, and software design along with quite a few upper-level math classes for my honors track. Experience: 1 paid internship with a local startup in my home country (I’m international, so I do need sponsorship) that specializes in AI/ML products (I was on the NLP team), 1 unpaid internship with an organization that promotes the education of CS to young people (I was on the AI team with a bit of leadership responsibility), 1 paid research position at my university (leading a team that does computer vision research), 1 paid TA position at my university for 2 math classes. Projects: 2 data analysis projects that revolved around video games (1 is a Discord bot, the other one was a deep learning model that I made from scratch), 1 fullstack app (a phone-calling app) using MERN, and 1 game/simulation that I made in Python. Edit: Since someone asked for me anonymized resume, here it is <a href="https://imgur.com/4gRBxKm.