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cassidoo/getting-a-gig
Guide for getting a gig as a tech student.
A Markdown guide written by a developer who graduated in 2014 with 10 job offers and 5 internships, aimed at CS students hunting for their first internship or entry-level role. It covers resume formatting, cover letters, networking, referrals, cold outreach, and a CS interview prep checklist. Nothing in here is code.
The networking section is genuinely useful and specific — the four-step sequence (introduce, small talk, exchange contacts, follow up) is actionable advice that most students skip. The interview prep checklist is a solid breadth-first view of what you actually need to know for technical screens. The tone is direct and honest without being discouraging. The fellowship list is a useful aggregation that students rarely find on their own.
The guide is frozen in 2014. Cold-calling via email guessing tools, LinkedIn scraping, and the career fair playbook read as advice for a job market that no longer exists — remote hiring, Greenhouse/Lever ATS systems, and AI-assisted resume screening have changed how applications actually get filtered. The LeetCode section is a shallow pointer to external resources rather than any real guidance on how to actually prepare. The repo is essentially a single Markdown file with no structure, no updates from the community despite 700 forks, and links that have rotted or gone paywalled. At 7k stars it carries more weight than it deserves given the last meaningful update was over a decade ago.