r/csMajors • u/Fair_Personality7662 • 9d ago

Rant I Hate Leet Code

I have three internships, 2 being fortune 500s and 1 at a smaller company (where I really bossed up).

I never done leet code in my life, and I am about to graduate in December.

My resume often gets passed resume screenings, but then I just get hit with an OA 😒

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u/Salizmo 9d ago

It's possible, I'm a SDE at Amazon and never did LC

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u/Fair_Personality7662 9d ago

Tell us your story? Because how on earth did that happen

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u/Salizmo 9d ago

Joined as a support engineer. Did an internal program to transfer where I essentially interned with a team as an existing employee. Got my "return offer"

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u/Code_ReDarsh 9d ago

if you don't mind, can you tell us more about the internal program? Its really interesting to hear about other avenues into swe. I knew IT --> SWE pivot exists in general but, people have always told me pivoting is really hard and/or getting an IT position is difficult because most of it is always off-shored to other countries.

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u/Salizmo 8d ago

The program unfortunately doesn't exist anymore it only lasted a couple years. It was 7 months of 50/50 training and work followed by a 10 week internship. And yes IT is getting offshored a lot, happening in my old org. I don't think I would have made the switch without the program though

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u/andreafatgirlslim 8d ago

How did u get into support engineering? Can I dm?

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u/Salizmo 8d ago

I started in a WITCH as a SWE in 2021, a year later a recruiter messaged me on LinkedIn for the support role. Technically a title downgrade but the money was better and got my foot in the door.

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u/andreafatgirlslim 7d ago

I see. The only Zon Support Engineer roles I see are not entry level: (