curiouscat321

In many ways, an organized petition could be seen as the beginning of union organization. Forget about opinions about unions for a moment. The fact is, most companies do whatever they can to squash a union as early as possible.

My warmest wishes go out to the Horiwitz and the Campbell families.

I don't think any major automaker has an in house effort anywhere close to Google. Most of them rely on suppliers like Bosch for their driverless car tech.

I think this shows that Ford is the only automaker that currently understands the shifts that the industry is about to undergo. None of the automakers or their suppliers can act like a software company in comparison to Google.

For those of you who would rather deal with a standard video player.

Right now, they seem to be playing arbitrage with engineering talent. They buy up engineers with large salaries and fancy perks. Those people, who now span almost every industry, are then used on projects like these. This has nothing to do with Google's core business or any branch of it at all.

It seems like Google is designing all sorts of products outside of its core competency (medicine, cars, now this?) with the hopes of either spinning it off, selling to the highest bidder, or...? I can't see shareholders liking Google trying to enter every market in the world.

There is a relative meritocracy for these positions. All of my fellow interns were exceptional. But, this was not much of a meritocracy. All of the interns went to Ivy-caliber schools. Many of them went to expensive preparatory schools (and pointed it out). I find it hard to believe that any of these interns had financial constraints.

Does this mean SV isn't a meritocracy? No. But, there is a undeniable bias towards Ivy League schools where the students are predominately wealthy.

You say that you're about to hire one. That sounds like you're fairly certain about this person's skills. But, you're ambivalent, hence the post.

Are you looking for an excuse not to hire someone or for reassurance to do so?

Waterloo is a good school. But, like all good schools, it has a bell curve. Waterloo will produce amazing developers and also abysmal ones. If this person passed your process, he/she is probably good to go.

If you won't challenge Netflix's argument, then it's your word against theirs. And one of those two companies isn't trying to become the largest ISP in the country.

Maybe not the best place to ask, but are you guys hiring summer interns?

So what can you do?

1) Breathe. You'll find something. You're working in the hottest field in the world right now. Somebody once told me that anxiety is simply looking too far into the future. He said that if you start thinking far enough ahead, you'll realize how little control you have. You still have plenty of time.

2) Realize the holidays are here. That's great for two reasons. One: nobody is hiring right now. Very few interviews are going out and virtually nobody is sending out offers. Wait until the new year to begin the search again. Two: you have a whole break to better your resume. Build a project, contribute to open source (this one's a biggie), learn a language. You have a free pass to better that resume of yours.

3) Submit your resume on this thread. Hopefully, HN can give you some tips.

4) Use connections. Start with your parents (although it sounds like they might be overseas). See where they work and look for internships in your field. Have them refer you. Then do the same for friends who have interned, their parents, their connections, professors, anybody. Start knowing where people work and ask for favors. It takes a minute or two of their life to send your resume to HR.

5) Don't be afraid to go after "bad jobs". This has been my biggest issue. I've been going after the biggest, best companies out there. And that's fine- to a point. A big-name internship sells itself when job hunting. A smaller, less sucecssful company internship can too. You just have to work harder to sell it.

Now, I haven't addressed the elephant in the room - your citizenship. That's an issue. Very few companies are willingly to go through the effort to get you a visa. Fear not, you have a couple options. You can try to get some kind of visa on your own, although I'm not an expert with that. You can find a company that has overseas offices. Work overseas for your internship, then transfer to the USA for a job. Or you can simply get an overseas internship. That experience will hopefully help you get a job here.

Quite the novel. I know it can be depressing to not have something just yet. Especially when friends have their dream jobs. I must say that writing this has been very cathartic. But don't focus on this too much. Study for finals, go drinking, play video games; just get your mind off of it. Any job search is going to have more negatives than positives. You only need one yes. Every no is one less until you get your yes.

I go to a top-2 public university and am in my junior year.

I have a github, but I'd rather not point to it. It contains some smaller projects I've done, as well as contributions to a large Python project and a website I built using Django/MongoDB.

I'm particularly interested in working on Infrastructure/Tools. I'm a huge Python fan and really enjoy backend coding.