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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by Nimitz14 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:56PM (#30494228)
Nobody is a "competent engineer" fresh out of university.
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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by saagarjha on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:38PM (#30494608)
They are if they learned how to be an engineer in parallel.
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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by Nimitz14 on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:15PM (#30506541)
That is basically impossible. Becoming a good engineer requires learning from the consequences of decisions you yourself made years ago. Doing internships will not give you that no matter how many you do.
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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by saagarjha on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:21PM (#30506600)
That's what open source projects are for ;)
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