sigh

i’m graduating next may and feeling extremely anxious about the whole job thing. i don’t think i’m necessarily awful at interviews, but i’m fucking terrified of them. i’ve gone through several different rounds for internships and i’m just a sweaty, nervous mess no matter how much prep i do. i hate the fact that every round i meet with someone new and i have to re-pitch myself to them. i wish i could just sit down with an engineer and walk through a real-life problem with them. how did you guys go about getting your first industry-related job? am i just targeting the wrong companies?

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
    9·
    3 years ago

    one of literally thousands working on the exact same problem, at the same time, that thousands more had solved in prior years

    Well you first have to repeat shit until you can truly make shit. Uni gave me valuable experience in how to make stuff reproducible and how to reproduce results by others. Not to say it’s the best thing to happen to anyone, but some scientific method training is pretty neat.

    • aexiruch
      4·
      3 years ago

      That applies to science, hypotheses, experiments, etc. and there I fully and wholeheartedly agree. But being one of thousands to implement a Bubble Sort has marginal educational value unless you are truly surprised it’s not exactly efficient. It might very well differ between different universities; in mine the “science” in “CS” was mostly absent until you started working on your PhD, and the rest wasn’t even good engineering, just “trying to filter out as many students as possible, as quickly as possible, by all means necessary”. They openly admitted that, and in my case they succeeded, by killing the joy of understanding and burying it under ten feet of “now reimplement this thing that has been proven worthless sixty years ago”.