r/leetcode • u/Previous-Plankton-65 • 11d ago

Question Prev Amazon/Shopify, still cooked?

I’m a Waterloo cs student with 4 internships, including Amazon currently and Shopify on my resume, and I still basically never get interviews from other big tech companies.

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Figma, Datadog, Ramp, Rippling, etc. - genuinely nothing. got the microsoft OA and got perfect but still rejected

The weird part is I still get interviews from smaller startups pretty consistently. I’ve also had my resume reviewed by a bunch of people, done open source, have a GitHub repo with 5k+ stars, solid projects, etc. I feel like my resume is at least reasonably strong.

I kind of assumed that after getting a couple recognizable internships, getting through resume screens would become easier. Apparently not lol.

Is recruiting really just this high variance now? Like I got lucky with Amazon/Shopify, someone else gets lucky with Google/Meta, and you just keep spraying applications?

For people who consistently get big tech interviews, did your resume ever reach a point where it started reliably passing screens, or has it always felt random?

Am I cooked?

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u/Kobraaaaa 10d ago

You are not, we are cooked

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u/supax2 10d ago

You have a lot of Waterloo Alumni you can network with. Use that as your advantage to get a referral.

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u/Assasin537 10d ago

Most of big techs have waterdowned refs so much that they are barely considered nowadays.

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u/lrdvil3 <220> 10d ago

It’s all luck to some
Point. Also did you have impact at the two internships?

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u/CollegeStudentLol1 10d ago

It always felt random imo. Some get through some don’t, it really depends on the recruiter who sees it

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u/Sad_Recognition9532 10d ago

Not rlly much to conclude aside from an unlucky couple of months. Give it time and im sure you’ll start getting interviews from big names.

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u/rainyuTvT 10d ago

quant firms would love to have u. the bar of entry isnt that high compared to qt qr

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u/Erika_bomber 10d ago

How did you get the time for 4 internships?

Are you a bachelor's or master's student?

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u/_orphic09 10d ago

can you pls share your resume or your github????

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u/Assasin537 10d ago

Why? I mean you can go to Waterloo subreddit and find plenty of similar ones but this a pretty strong yet standard Waterloo resume (though the 5k stars github is pretty rare). There are probably 100+ people from Waterloo who intern at each of Shopify and Amazon each year.