To become very good at interview prep, do mock interviews on [interviewing.io](http://interviewing.io). I practiced a lot here during my junior year of college and became very good at interviews. I also worked at [interviewing.io](http://interviewing.io) as an employee as well.\
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Apart from FAANG, you should consider getting internships at well-funded startups that are solving an actual problem (very important you keep the well-funded, solving actual problem in mind). Getting interviews at these start-ups is fairly easy.\
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You can email the founders at [firstname@company.com](mailto:firstname@company.com) and you will get a lot more autonomy and responsibility at these companies compared to big tech. I interned both at big companies and startups but I learned the most at my startup internship

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Get started with learning React: <https://react.dev/learn>\
Do the quick tutorial and then build a toy project using Next.js\
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I still think you should learn how to build great UIs using React. I always like to tell my peers that if you become good at building frontends using React, you will always be able to get a $100k/yr job. React is probably the most hirable skill today.

Tech is a positive sum game, here we are just dealing with the nature of working on tech in a corporate environment, which can sometimes be zero-sum.