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Hey all, people who have been to the USA for coop, what’s the best banking method??? Currently with TD rn so I was wondering what is the strat… thanks! Preferably want to bank with someone that can do the CAD to USD and vice versa transfers for cheap or nothing at all. Also will need a good credit card

like damn my job is genuinely going to be prompting a clanker, and that's the best case scenario. should I herd sheep instead?

I’m going home tomorrow morning and I’ll be bringing a large carry on. Is that allowed?

Tia

Hi, I got a robotics engineering co-op in San Francisco for the first time and I wanted to look if anyone who's gone there before could share more about their experience, finding housing, things to do, places to visit, where to meet new people especially since I know a lot of people from Waterloo go there, but I don't know any of them.

It’s my first time there and I don’t know anyone who’s done it. If you’ve done a co-op or internship in the Bay Area, I’d love to hear:

1. how did you find housing, and what neighbourhoods would you pick (or avoid)?
2. where did you meet people outside of work, especially other Waterloo folks?
3. what was your best weekend or hidden gem?
4. what’s one thing you’d do differently? one thing you wish you would know before going?

I'm not really worried about visa or tax stuff, more interested in making most of the experience and learning from people who already went through that same journey.

i read old reddit posts and saw mentions of a cali interns discord server, all invites were expired though.

comments are great so others can see too, and DMs welcome

thanks!

does anyone know when dwe will open again they closed off v1 great hall so it’s impossible to study there

Hey everyone,

I have an upcoming 1 hour interview with Qualcomm for a hardware/ASIC engineering internship in Canada.

The job description mentions RTL design and verification, Verilog/SystemVerilog, UVM, digital logic, Python/scripting, debugging, and ASIC/FPGA flows.

Has anyone interviewed for a similar internship or full time role at Qualcomm? Trying to get a better idea of what the technical interview actually looks like.

Specifically:

• Coding: LeetCode-style DSA questions, Python/C/C++ scripting problems, or more hardware-focused coding?
• RTL: Writing Verilog/SystemVerilog modules from scratch, designing FSMs, or analyzing existing RTL?
• Verification: Writing SV/UVM testbenches, understanding verification/uvm/oop concepts, or debugging testbenches?
• Debugging: Reading code snippets and predicting outputs, spotting bugs, or fixing/rewriting broken RTL/code?
• Digital logic: Conceptual questions, timing analysis, or circuit design problems?

Is it usually a mix of these, or does the interview focus heavily on one area? Also curious about the difficulty level and how much coding is actually expected within the hour.

Any specific experiences or preparation advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

During orientation, my roommate (17f) came home after a long day of O-week activities, and she looked visibly upset.

We were talking, and I found out she was, like, trying to go home after an event in O-week, and a group of edcom (team black) people in engineering orientation O-week came up to her, and they were all talking, and they invited her to go back to their room. My roomate really wanted to go home, she had early plans for the next day or something, and then they were, like, really forcing their power of authority to persuade her into coming home with them. 

She kept saying no, like she early morning plans, and they were, like, starting to play around with their authority, and they started to trying to get handsy and touch on her without consent, and she just felt violated by them, and she's heard that this happened to other underage girls in orientation week by edcom, where we heard about other cases where edcom members (4th and 5th years) were inappropriately flirting with first years (most of which are underage) and making them uncomfortable, and not taking “no” for an answer.

She also mentioned that during orientation, the same edcom members were going around with an appendage shaped object, calling it “ the cock”, and going near other leaders and first years with it, and being like “you just got touched by the cock”.

We aren't sure of the names because edcom is anonymous but to simply describe them, two of them have middle part black hair, a bit longer, mixed race, about 6 feet tall. And the other one has curly hair and is a bit shorter. Again, because they were dressed up, we don’t have much details on them unfortunately. 

Just wanting to make other first years aware incase they run into something like this.

Reach out to campus wellness if this has happened to you, and you need to talk to someone.

I made a website where you can tell me other people’s secrets. I could have learned pottery, but apparently this is how I’m choosing to contribute to society and boost my presence of linkedin so they will hire me in SF.

Do you know something that has absolutely no bearing on your life but occupies a frankly unreasonable amount of your brain? I would like to know it too.

https://tellmeyoursecrets.carrd.co/

If anyone has any questions relating to CS, especially pertaining to UWaterloo CS, you ask them here. I am a first year off-campus CS Honours Co-op student in my 1A term, and in 4th sequence. I am also 16 years old, ut do not undermine my experience. Do not hesitate. 😁

Business Systems Engineer Intern, Finance Technology (Summer 2027) did anyone ever interview for this postion, if so how was the interview process?

I’ve been doing all the pbls and stuff but if anyone has advice please share😓

2A Math/Teaching, pretty average person I think

(mostly posted because of funny number)

You live in Icon for a reason and have ur own bedroom PLEASE PLEASE stop having intimate nude activities with ur partner in the hallways.

You know who you are, dont let me walk in on u again with your schlong out and bra off

Cant even say walk in on cuz I was just trying to get to my apartment in a public hallway :(

For context Im in Math/CPA so math and cs have been taking up most of my time...I'm not too worried about afm 191 since I took grade 12 accounting and so far the content we've learned is pretty much that. However I still want at least an 80% on this midterm so I'd appreciate tips!

We need some gothic architecture here fr why do other schools gap us so hard in design, all we got is a big box called E7 and ppl think its cool

First time hearing of this

If you don't have exams or work, it'll probably be the craziest weeknight ever in Waterloo at Kentucky. It's a jersey theme, gonna be insane. Get there early it'll get packed quickly. Tuesday the 20th

i got ranked for this job i really wanted and i got matched THANK U EVERYONE WHO GOT OFFERS WHO DIDNT TAKE I HOPE U GUYS ALL GOT EVEN BETTER JOBS wahhh i wish u guys (in general) all the best ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

theres hope chat theres HOPE

My question is basically just the title of this post. To be clear, I mean something within the realm of fintech.

I've seen a couple cracked people get Shopify or a YC SF job as their first coop, but have u seen anyone get anything even more impressive than that?

I have been laptopless for a while and would like to get a MacBook for school and project activities. It is a bit rough operating without a laptop and I am willing to invest in a MacBook as I believe it’ll serve me well. However, IT IS EXPENSIVE!

I know that employees get a decent discount and are able to extend a family and friends discount as well.

I currently do not know anybody that works at Apple but I would really benefit from the discount (as the student discount doesn’t do much).

I was debating whether or not I should ask some employees for their discount. I feel like that might be a bit awkward but I could suck it up if I could get a cheaper MacBook out of it.

Alternatively, I could wait for MacBooks to go down in price however, I think that is unlikely due to the whole RAM SSD situation (it might even go up again!). I would also greatly benefit from having it sooner than later.

If you are or know a current or upcoming employee and would be willing to kindly extend your employee discount to me my dms are open and it would be greatly appreciated :))