WWCD Mentorship Program 3.0: Week 2
This week was all about internships and opportunities and how to approach them effectively and tackle them.
Our call precisely was structured into talking about three types of internships :
- Technical Internships (SDE, SWE, ML Engineer, etc.)
- Research Internships (Academia based, research under a lab or professor)
- Non-Technical Internships (Consulting, policy-making, etc.)
Covering the technical aspect of internships, we discussed the various on-campus and off-campus opportunities and the strategy to build around them to succeed in the technical rounds. Majorly, she made me build an understanding of the various stages of an interview process and how to prepare for them using LeetCode, InterviewBit, and GeeksForGeeks. So, the technical rounds of clearance contain questions predominantly from data structures and algorithms, aptitude, and puzzles for logical reasoning.
Since I am more inclined towards building a career in the fintech industry, we discussed the requirements for roles revolving around the same and the strategy going forward. Apart from the above on-campus opportunities, we also discussed various hackathons conducted by different companies under their hiring processes (eg JP Morgan's “Code For Good”) and understood the perfect way to grab such opportunities using a referral.
The key takeaway from the above discussion was the importance of how an individual presents himself/herself in an interview environment, the importance of preparing a good introduction about yourself in prior, and how to answer some basic behavioral questions with a personal touch to it.
We even talked about the difference between Research Internships and Industry central internships and how one should understand early-on where they find their best avenue in.
For the coming week, we will be focusing on practicing questions from a coding platform we are comfortable with and subsequently give mock interviews to Pallavi to judge our assessment and understand the metrics we need to brush upon.
Altogether, I believe Week-2 was a huge stepping stone for me and I can not wait for Week-3 and start implementing my efforts into successful outcomes! 💙
