In early December, after the Fall 2022 quarter ended, I decided to start applying for software engineer jobs. With only two classes left until graduation at the end of March 2023, and some upcoming financial concerns, I figured now was the time to start updating my resume. After tons of hours updating my resume, social media sites, and job search sites; and after tons of hours updating my resume, social media sites, and job search sites; and after tons of applications filed, tons of rejection emails, I finally made it past the initial resume screening and was offered to take an online assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was excited to finally make it to this step of the interview process, but also nervous as I had no idea what to expect. I received the email on a Tuesday to take the assessment and decided it would be best to spend the week studying and take the assessment over the weekend. The languages used were Python for a debugging section, Angular for a section to add functionality to a website, and then the last section was to describe the process of AWS authentication. I felt confident about the debugging part in Python, but I got stumped with Angular and I assumed I\u2019d be able to pick it up quick during the assessment but that didn\u2019t seem to be the case. By the time I got to the last section I had 30 minutes left of the total 2 hours and I was worried. The question was on a specific topic of AWS and that threw me off as I was expecting just a general process of getting started in AWS, with never having touched AWS I felt paralyzed and had trouble looking up the needed information. I ended up not being able to write much for that section and submitted my assessment with a feeling of disappointment in myself overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Key takeways:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In early December, after the Fall 2022 quarter ended, I decided to start applying for software engineer jobs. With only two classes left until graduation at the end of March 2023, and some upcoming financial concerns, I figured now was the time to start updating my resume. After tons of hours updating my resume, social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/careyw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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