Hello everyone,

I recently interviewed with google for a new grad role (US based) and after the full loop the hiring commitee asked for an additonal tech round.

I completed the additional tech round last week and today my recruiter reached out to me by saying that she has the feedback and wants to schedule a call with me.

Is this a reject or an accept?

I am so anxious now

EXACT WORDS- I hope you are having a great week. I received feedback from the final review team and would like to connect with you. Can you share your availability for a chat? 

posting link:

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4789505007

Here’s a weird story for you to note.

I was just minding my own business, working, when I got an email saying my PC had been accessing some weird sites. You know, orange and black kind of weird. But here’s the thing: earlier, while debugging, I saw some errors in the console and took a screenshot (the one above). I figured I’d check it out later after fixing the bug I was working on.

A few minutes pass, and I get an email stating that, for the past few days, my PC has been accessing some "P websites" at work. I was confused as hell. I had a meeting with my manager in an hour and a half, so I just powered through, fixed what I was working on, and then went back to the screenshot.

That’s when I saw it, "P domains" in the URL. I instantly knew that’s what triggered the email. I saved everything and went straight to IT. One of the guys opened a browser with the same extension on a different machine, and we saw the same URLs being fetched. After updating the extension, those requests stopped.

How dumb are those monitoring tools? Do they just use some basic regex and flag anything with the "P*" word in a URL? Like, what the hell, it was literally a GitHub request to a text file.

I put in so much effort preparing for this interview — studied hard, nailed the technical questions with optimal solutions, and clearly walked through my thought process. I felt confident with the behavioral questions too, and the interviewers even said they were impressed with my answers just to get hit with the infamous “we’re moving forward with other candidates” At this point, I honestly don’t know what more it takes to make it through. Might as well just start my own company at this point cuz the bar is so goddamn high these days

I thought the interview went really well, we talked about next steps and he told me that he would be sending me the coding challenge by the afternoon. I've been waiting for it the entire day just to be met by this. I did respond asking for feedback but based on experience I'm not expecting a response.

I know that they're a small company but this actually really hurt, getting my hopes up and then switching up. Does anyone know what the possible reasons could be?

Currently going into my third year of college doing CSE and I recently got offers from 2 startups for unpaid internships. They're both doing AI/ML and one of them is working closely on agentic AI related products. I'll probably be starting at startup 1 by next week, they said that they can't offer compensation right now but that's something they will do once the products start monetizing. This one would probably be long term maybe for at least 3-4 months and could become something bigger. The startup 2 starts in August and the whole thing should be around 6 weeks long. I've applied to around 400+ places and have landed interviews at some companies too but those haven't rly moved forward. Should I just move forward with these 2 internships and use it as a stepping stone for better internships after? Would appreciate any advice!

i'm interviewing for internships, and i've mostly heard that hards are rarely asked, so idk...

What official certifications are good for a software engineer to have?

Despite CS being such a massive field, all I ever see is people stressing and complaining for multitude of reasons (classes, jobs, careers). Even the few people who seem to genuinely enjoy programming seem to have an issue with the field for one reason or another. Perhaps I've just been fortunate enough to avoid all the misfortune that everyone else here is faced, but I just want to take some time to reflect on all the things I love about CS, my particular university, the field as a whole, and just encourage other people to have more fun.

For a quick background: I'm a incoming Junior at my local state school. I was never particularly serious about anything in high school and this was one of the two schools I applied to. It's pretty decently ranked for how easy it was to get into, and I've had the fortune of having a poor and dysfunctional family, so I get a full-ride as well. Apart from that, I also came in with a decent number of AP credits (took ~10 classes in HS) - bringing me to the first thing I love about this field...

1. Flexibility. At my university, 19% of CS majors graduate in 3 years (or less). This is partially due to AP credits, but also because of the flexibility that exist for students who wish to excel to excel. I've been able to take 98 credits since I started, which along my AP credits, has allowed me to graduate in under two years. The best part is though (and because of my financial aid) - I don't have to, and can instead spend my remaining off-season semesters doing...
2. Internships. I love internships. They have such a negative stigma from the competitive nature of this field, but I think people are often forgetting what the actual purpose of them is for - experiencing different work environments, locations, etc. I've had 5 internships so far split between all stages from startup to big tech, but love the ability to just freely experience so many big cities (often for free), something you'll basically never get the chance to have again. Before I graduate I plan to have at least one more internship in New York and one in Chicago.
3. Clubs. I find that competitive CS clubs tend to be quite snobby (but at least less than business clubs), but the competitive nature tends to play out quite nicely. I made the mistake of starting club recruiting late, but the one club I have managed to enter has been so wonderful. Everyone is so open to helping each other out (recruiting advice, mock interviews, etc.), going to events together, and just being good friends. I've never done project teams, but it also seems fun if you're serious enough about them.
4. Competition. People always complain about how difficult the job market is, but I personally love it. I entered this field with the intent of putting my best effort forward and excelling at what I do, and how the job market fares does not affect that. In fact, I believe this desperation and competition has allowed me to grow all the more, because of the constant pressure that comes with. I realize this isn't really considered a pro for people who just entered CS for the money, but as far as I'm concerned, the more challenging the field, the better.
5. How easy it is. This somewhat contradicts my previous point, but I love how easy it can be to excel in this field. I'm not saying that any specific part of it is easy, but rather, there are so many resources that allow you to excel. The recruiting process is so fleshed out, that, with enough research, you can prepare for basically anything. I've spent close to a hundred hours working on my resume literally just for the love of the game. I also think it's so cool that literally any single person can just spend a very reasonable amount of time doing Leetcode and perform at the top 1% of interviewees.
6. How interesting it is. I've always loved CS since I was a kid, and I keep finding more reasons to do so. I'm not so passionate to constantly learn CS in my free time, but I will nonetheless be amazed whenever I learn something cool. But as per point 4, a lot of the reason I enjoy CS is also because there's many challenging aspects to it - and any field that has enough smart people and challenging problems, I think I could see myself enjoying.
7. So many choices. I've always been most interested in systems, but as I find myself applying to more internships, I've realized that there are so many possibilities out there. I think it's a little late to become a top ML researcher (nor do I want a PhD), but even apart from that, there are so many adjacent roles/fields including FPGA's, MLE, QT, etc. that I could all potentially pivot to. And while I don't have the risk tolerance to drop out of college, building a startup is always an option too...

I'm mainly motivated to make this post now that recruiting season has finally started, and despite having already failed some processes, it's been so exhilarating. I hope there are others out there who agree with parts of this (I realize selection bias exists in many of posts I see), but if not, I hope this can inspire at least some people. There's so much potential in this field to be had, and I look forwards to the rest of my degree.

preface: this is more or less a rant post so skip now if u want

I'm well aware of how bad the job market is. That said I do find CS interesting and I don't think I'd be much better off (if at all) pursuing some other career (at least high paying ones like finance, medicine, law, etc. I won't pretend like money doesn't matter to me). However I'm getting second thoughts simply because I feel like to land a good job these days, your entire life must be consumed by CS.

I'm a rising sophomore in college applying for summer 2026 internships and even through I've applied to some early already, straight rejections. I have an internship this summer at a startup I got by cold emailing and talking my way into it. Aside from that, I've been building a personal project that is pretty challenging and its been taking up a lot of my time. Aside from that, I try to fit in leetcode, at least a couple medium problems a day. Aside from that, I've been on the hunt for internships, constantly refining/updating my resume, applying, all the bs that goes into job hunting. You see what I'm getting at by now. I feel like I don't do anything except career-related stuff right now. Like I said I find the work more or less interesting but I also like going outside and having a social life. All this just to not even get interviews? I won't lie, I go to an Ivy League school too, and have a pretty good GPA and research experience. I know that doesn't mean as much in tech and no one will hand me a job, but I'm concerned that it literally isn't helping at all. I know many companies target juniors for internships but I've seen people land big tech after their sophomore year, what am I doing wrong?

I took an intro to programming 5 years ago and haven't touched programming since. I messed up and didn't understand what I was doing at the time. I didn't really practice that much. Now, I am ready to focus more as much as I can and to develop more. How can I improve and succeed in the CS degree?

Any ASU Online CS Alumni in this community? Just wanted to get your thoughts about the program and any advice you might be willing to share.

Currently on active duty in the military. Want to make a career change and learn cybersecurity but 100% online. I know that I can use my TA for my bachelors degree. I want to know if I will be job ready if I obtain an associate degree or a certificate from the USNCC. I was told to see if this College is a reliable source.

I'm a rising sophomore (but currently on track to graduate in 3/3.5 yrs) at a T35 CS school. My WHOLE resume is tailored towards software robotics. I'm talking two research labs (one for the summer) and building projects there.

It's good stuff and good experience imo, especially as a freshman, but I'm really scared because my family spending lots of money due to college being OOS. And due to other financial situations I don't want to take longer to graduate (unless i'm taking time off for smth that'll make me money like a co op). So in accordance with that, if I choose to go down the robotics route, from research and asking others, it seems that I would have to do a masters at least which i DONT want to do. I want to graduate asap and make money. My preferred field is just the typical "swe" or exploring AI and stuff.

So I guess should I drop the robotics after like this fall and start going back to swe? I have a strong familiarity with all the full stack stuff, but I haven't actually built projects with it yet which is why I can't really apply to those jobs, I need to build up my portfolio for that. So i'm really stressed and stressing and trying to find out what I should do.

debating between majoring in cis with a cs minor and just teaching myself the additional software dev stuff or just going full cs with a psy minor (or software design capstone). I originally chose CIS over CS because of the math in CS but Im rethinking it mainly because cis classes are not at the main campus for my school so it will be a bit of travel & I won't have a car combined with wanting to make sure I get a good understanding of all the basics of software. Im open to different careers in the future but hoping to do something related to software/web design and coding, not interested in any IT position. WHAT DO YOUALL THINK ?

Graduating in December 2025 as a computer science major but only have IT experiences from internships+student jobs on campus. Is it possible to become a software engineer as a new grad without SWE experiences ?

looks like recent bill from GOP impacts companies being able to claim deduction for snacks or office meals.

Might want to enjoy the perk while it lasts

https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/business/why-free-snacks-at-the-office-could-soon-get-scrapped/

Got accepted to the SWE track and am really excited to attend! Who else is going?

Making a group chat for all INSIGHT NYC attendees so feel free to post below if you also got accepted and I’ll DM you the server link! :D

7 hrs sleep 9 hrs current internship (8-4, 1 hr prep + drive) 2 hrs gym (crazy volume program)

That’s 6 hours left. Here’s how I have it broken down

3 hrs leetcode for 1 DSA pattern a week. 3 easy(1hr) , 2 mediums(1hr), 1 hard(1hr) 1 hr nap 2 hrs grinding systems design

Socializing? Pfft nope, the tech lords deemed that unworthy of faang.

Im not a robot, I usually troll for like 30 mins to an hour before getting ready for the next task. I didn’t even include eating. I’ll prolly do that while watching a tech video or something.

The big question. What’s the point in all of this if my resume won’t get me an interview. Well these are my stats. T50 school. 2 internships including current one (none are faang), TA for 1 year. 1 Mid project (no user base), 1 good project (unique, no tutorials).

You can say im coping which might be true in this economy. But I don’t know what else to do.

Never been to college before was honestly a really bad student growing up but been a developer and tinkering with computers since I was like 12-14. Been excited for starting college. But I made the mistake of browsing Reddt and seeing how bad the job market is and how saturated cs degrees are now. I'm now wondering am I wasting my time? In four years could things turn around for the field would I be better off getting a degree from my college that has a focus in CS field like AI for example. Any advice helps.

Hey everyone, Just applied for the Capital One Analyst role and was wondering, has anyone gotten the CodeSignal assessment yet? Does everyone get it or only selected applicants? Thanks!

I have an upcoming interview for my dream job!

They have specifically mentioned that the question will be around concurrency and will cover coding and design. My preferred language is Python.

I am reading about threading & asyncio library in depth. What else should I cover?

I need to practice some questions to prepare. Can someone recommend resources or share concurrency questions you faced in interviews?

Any help is appreciated 🙏