Appendix A: Resource List
Within this appendix section, you will find a list of career resources to help you across all stages of the career hunting process.
Additional Readings / Guides​
- The Tech Interview Handbook
- Kevin Naughton Jr. - Interviews Guide
- r/uwb - Thoughts on the CSSE program as someone working at a ~top 10 tech firm
Resume Help​
Other Guides​
Resume Templates​
Resume Parsers​
Internship / Job Finding​
Job Posting Sites​
GitHub Internship / Job Boards (see repositories)​
Internship / Job Information​
- Levels.fyi (Company Info: Salaries, Stocks/Bonuses, Benefits, Career Levels/Tiers)
- Canary Intern Reviews
- Glassdoor (Intern/Job Reviews, Interview Experiences and Tips)
Behavioral Interview Prep​
Technical Practice Problems​
- LeetCode
- HackerRank
- BinarySearch.io
- Blind 75 (Curated List of Best 75 LeetCode Questions to Practice)
- LeetCode Patterns (LeetCode Problems sorted by Pattern and/or Company)
- Description / Implementation of LC Patterns
Tech Interview Prep​
- UWB ACM Technical Interview Prep Sessions
- Grokking the Coding Interview (Course, Paid)
- Abdul Bari - Algorithms (YT Playlist)
- Stanford Algorithms (Course)
NOTE: The following resources are simulated coding interviews with interviewees that are already well-experienced in software engineering or data structures & algorithms. Most questions in these simulated interviews are above the standard for internships and new grad interviews. We recommend viewing these interviews to see how communication flows between the interviewer and interviewee while solving problems, but know that they cover more advanced topics.
- Interviewing.io (YT Channel; Simulated Interviews [DS&A, SysDesign])
- Clement Mihailescu (YT Channel; Simulated Interviews [DS&A, SysDesign])
- Exponent (YT Channel; Simulated Interviews [PM, DS&A, SysDesign])
System Design Prep​
- Grokking the System Design Interview (Course, Paid)
- Gaurav Sen - System Design (YT Playlist)
- GitHub - System Design Primer
Interview Practice​
- Pramp (DS&A, PM, Behavioral, System Design, Frontend, Data Science)
- Interviewing.io (Paid; DS&A, System Design, Behavioral)
CS Discords​
- UWB ACM (Resume Review, Job Posting Channel)
- cscareers.dev (Resume Review, Job Scraper Bot, Job Posting Channel, LeetCode Bot, Process Tracking)
- CS Career Hub (Job Posting Channel, LeetCode Bot, Resume Review)
- CS @ UWB
- UWB CSS Unofficial (Resume Review)
- UW CS Careers (Resume Review)
Negotiation​
Useful Courses​
- MIT - The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
- MIT OCW (various free course content from MIT courses)
Books​
- Cracking the Coding Interview (CTCI) (DS&A/Interview Prep)
- Elements of Programming Interviews (EPI) (DS&A Prep)
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) (System Design)