It's very hard to get in, so you know the people inside are some of the smartest algorithm students in the country.
Actual work is not as challenging. A lot of unneeded stress.
Go easier on the requirements to get in.
Campus career fair, followed by a phone screen and an onsite interview.
I applied online and was given multiple interviews throughout a few weeks. I thought the process was not too hard but not too easy. I do not think I did too badly in these interviews. Overall, the questions asked were interesting.
I initiated contact at a career fair. They asked me a technical question at the fair: You have a set of (time, value) pairs. How can you find the first and last values in the time interval [a, b]? My answer was: You do binary search. Then, I was c
Campus career fair, followed by a phone screen and an onsite interview.
I applied online and was given multiple interviews throughout a few weeks. I thought the process was not too hard but not too easy. I do not think I did too badly in these interviews. Overall, the questions asked were interesting.
I initiated contact at a career fair. They asked me a technical question at the fair: You have a set of (time, value) pairs. How can you find the first and last values in the time interval [a, b]? My answer was: You do binary search. Then, I was c