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Some tips for recruitment season for Computer science students based on my experience.

Note: This is mostly for 1st and 2nd year students. Here is what I did to get my first internship offer.

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My interest in this form of seeing, that of the art museum tour guide- not quite a historian, not quite a layman- came from a presentation given to an art history class of mine by a worker in the Learning and Interpretation Department of the Cincinnati Art Museum. As someone who studies art and art history academically, it was interesting to hear from someone whose career was centered around the accessibility of a public art collection to a larger audience, rather than in-depth research and paper-writing. The bulk of my observation for this project was done by attending the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Public Tours, which are held several times a month and are free to the public. The docents began the tours by introducing themselves and asking visitors about their background, their level of familiarity with the collection, and in the case of the tour of the CAM’s Cincinnati Wing, whether the visitor was a Cincinnati native. During the tours, the docents establish a narrative for the visitors that they string between different items in the collection, be they paintings, pieces of furniture, or everyday objects from times past. The docents ask open ended questions throughout- “what do we think this might have been used for?” or “what does this look like to you?” rather than “who was Claude Monet?” The questions and discussion seemed to be as much about forming an educational narrative as they were about establishing a personal connection to the art. Before or after the tours, I was able to speak briefly with the docents and ask a few questions about the (mostly volunteer) role. They came from a range of backgrounds, many having little to no academic training in art or art history; one docent I spoke to was a retiree who had worked in finance and later came to doing tours out of a personal interest in learning about art history. The docents, who all received similar training sessions at the CAM, described the job as one in which they often met visitors halfway and learned bits and pieces from visitors to incorporate into further tours.  After these short interviews, it seemed as though the museum docent was indeed at a position somewhat between having a expert or professional perspective in the galleries and having a more vernacular, commonplace one. They understand and categorize the museum’s collection through narratives they can explain to visitors. It occurred to me during some of these tours that Karen Strassler’s discussions of ethnography of photography in Java had some similarities to the way docents organized information. Just as the she described the history of the picture-taking practice in Java and considerations of genres, social functions, political functions, and of imagery, the tour guides explained similar aspects of art with their discussion of the pieces in the CAM’s collection. I later returned to the representative of the CAM’s Learning and Interpretation Department mentioned earlier and was able to ask more pointed questions about the discursive practices in education at the museum and reify my own observations from the tours. Her department, she explained, was concerned with the accessibility of the institution. Instead of large research or curatorial projects, their programs’ aim would be to try to make the collection appeal to the everyday person, young children, or to people with disabilities. 

While searching for an internship last year, I went to multiple interviews. I had an impressive resume - side projects, volunteer work, high GPA, previous work experience. Basically any job I applied to, I got asked in for an interview. I also didn’t getting any offers for the first 3 months.

Does this make me stupid? Was my resume a lie? Was I a failure? It sure felt like it at the time. But the truth was I wasn’t good at interviewing. For example:

At my first white board interview I got a very simple anagram questions. I spent half an hour solving it because I kept doubting my self and my approach. I didn’t get the job. 

At another interview I had a take home assignment  and my solution didn’t compile without errors and was more complicated then it needed to be. I didn’t get the job. 

At another interview, I got asked questions about trees where the edge case had to be spoon fed to me cause I couldn’t think of it on my own. I was asked back for a second interview but still didn’t get the job. 

At another interview I struggled to answer the question and I got all the java questions wrong. But at this point, I was getting a bit better at interviews so I illustrated my thought process better and was honest about what facts I knew confidently and which I was a bit uncertain about. I was nervous the entire time since my interviewer never once smiled at me. I got a job offer but it was a month later (I’m pretty sure that I was not their first choice).

I was devastated. My friend had managed to get an job offer on her first interview and it was at one the companies that rejected me.  What good was my resume if I was a terrible at coding?

At this point, I applied for a position for a company that I didn’t find that interesting (it was fintech) but I decided to apply anyway. I went to the interview and I talked about my side projects a bit. My interviewers were nice and asked me some questions about what I was interested in. I answered, told some jokes, they laughed. I asked some questions, they answered. We laughed. I did an technical question - I made some mistakes but I explained my process. We talked some more, we laughed a bit. I left that interview thinking that the people who interviewed me were great but I had no expectations for an offer. That night I got an offer. The next day I got that other job offer I mentioned before. I took the fintech offer - I wanted to work with people who I could laugh with.

I’m 8 months into my internship. Remember how I wasn’t interested in the company? Well, everyday I love coming to work. I work with people who help me become a better coder. I get so many opportunities to work on projects vital to the business. I’ve met so many cool and interesting people. These are the things I’ll mention about on social media - not all the struggle that came before. (I also don’t post about my failures at work - like when I break something in production, or code reviews with a million changes.) People tend to only post their success - but don’t think that means they have never failed.

So, how did I get to the point where I could get 2 job offers? Well, I tried to improve after each interview by reflecting on what I did wrong and improving on these skills so I could do better next time.

For me, the big thing was that I stopped trying to get the right answer the first time.  Normally, I would sit silently and try to come up with the correct answer really fast. So I started practicing walking the interviewers through my thought process - I would point out things I knew were wrong or edge cases that I was going to ignore for a moment while I figured something else out. If I didn’t know something, I would say that but then also proceed to give my best educated guess.

Before each interview I also reviewed a list of my experiences and what I learned from them. That way, they were fresh in my mind and I could bring them up while answering questions about my skills, strengths, weaknesses etc.

I reviewed my data structure knowledge and did practice leet code questions so that I could get better at technical questions.

Basically, I built my skills to be better at technical interviews. It was hard work but at least I got a job in the end. And you know what? Even with these tips you can still fail at an interview. The point is that you have to pick yourself up and try to do better next time.

Anyway, the point of this terribly long answer is that “yes failure sucks but everyone fails. Don’t be too hard on yourself.”

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