My name is Sang Ok Suh. I’m currently taking the last class of the OSU post-bacc CS program, the class that’s forcing to me start this blog. I’ve always wanted to start a blog but I never really had the courage to do it, maybe because I’m not confident with my writing skills or maybe I’m just too lazy. But here it goes! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Two years seemed like eternity when I first started this program. I was just starting my first job out of college as a data analyst at a mobile game company. I was excited about work and this program but knew that the workload will be stressful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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COVID happened, which changed the whole work situation; forcing me to work from home during my last one and a half years at the gaming company and also during my recent Summer Internship at Walmart as a Software Engineer Intern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I kept track of my Summer internship hunt and it took me over 6 months and 300 applications to land an internship. I initially applied to about 200 companies from September to November of last year which resulted in rejections after taking the Online Assessments that usually asked leetcode-styled problems. I solved about 15 leetcode problems then and I knew I wasn’t ready so I spent the next two months on leetcode every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After two months and over 100 leetcode problems, I was ready to apply again. I applied to about 100 more companies and eventually passed the final rounds for two companies. I ended up joining Walmart and had a great internship experience (which I’m planning to write a blog post about). I think that experience helped me land my current Fall internship at a local finance company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I’m finally at the tail end and two years indeed felt like an eternity. Taking classes while working full-time required a lot of sacrifice and good time management. But I’m glad that I went through all that work because no pain, no gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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