Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley...
by ilianam on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:54AM
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How did you bomb that first internship? I wonder if there's a useful lesson to share here with Dalia and our broader community.
Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley...
by mFixman on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:03AM
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I got the internship after only one year of college, and I had nowhere near the amount of experience necessary to solve the particularly complex project I was in: I was a very good programmer but a very bad engineer.
When I got accepted for my second internship years later I decided to get a real job 3 months prior to learn how to work in teams in the industry. I think this gave me the correct context to do well later.
If I were to give an advice to other third worlders with FAANG internships: work like you've never worked before and like you'll never work afterwards. This will change your life if you do it right.
Like Dalia, I thought it would be almost impossible to get a good job on a developed country if you didn't do well in the birth lottery until Google figured out I was good at programming and gave me a nice internship project.
I bombed that first internship, but with the extra experience and the knowledge that I had more open doors than I thought allowed me to get a nice job in the UK after the second one.