Advice for a third year engineering student
I am currently in my third year studying computer science and I am confused about what to do next. Here are some quick points about my profile:
- Strong GitHub profile
- Part of Google's summer of code 2023
- Built some interesting projects (tech stack: typescript, postgres, redis)
- I have studied a fair bit of High Level Design (System Design)
- I have a decent leetcode profile (500 questions mostly medium and Hard) (1800 contest rating)
- I also have strong CS fundamentals (DBMS, oop, CN)
I am currently getting interviews from startups but they want 6 month interns and I cannot do such a long internship right now with college. I am only available for a 2 month summer intern (which most startups don't want). I am from a Tier 2 college and we do have some good companies come for placements but I'm not sure about the scenario for next year.
Any tips or advice on what I should focus on? how I should prepare? what kind of companies I should target?
Your experience and insights will be of tremendous help for me
You are on right path so some generic points for you that you may know already
Don’t chase any new shiny tech stack for FOMO Delve into depth now in whatever topics/areas/projects you have got hands on till now. Try having one spike achievement in your resume like Top 10 score in codechef from college. Last but most important dont forget about CGPA, and ffs unless its life and death situation avoid backlog.