Two weeks after finishing nine coding problems, I could barely re-solve them from a blank page. What Arrays and Hashing is actually asking, the four patterns underneath it, and the exact lines I keep getting wrong.
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I spent a Saturday finishing a 30-chapter tutorial for a programming language that turned fifty last year. I write Python. I’ve shipped JavaScript. Nobody is hiring for Smalltalk. It was the most useful day of learning I’ve had in months, and not for nostalgia reasons. Here’s what actually happened, and what the rest of my
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On Wednesday evening I sat in a dim restaurant with a screen glowing “Workshop 1: Raise Your Value” and practised saying a number I had no business saying yet.The scenario handed to us was a Customer Success Manager role, salary range $95,000 to $110,000. We filled out a workbook first: our strongest differentiator, three value
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International Women’s Day is one of those occasions where it’s easy to post something generic, a purple graphic, a list of famous names, a caption about empowerment. But this year, I want to do something different. I want to write about two specific women. Two women who didn’t make headlines, but who quietly and profoundly
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TMU GradTrack: A Full-Stack Solution for Academic Milestone Tracking Navigating graduate school is challenging enough without the added burden of manual paperwork. At Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), graduate students traditionally submitted their termly progress reviews via a tedious process involving manual emails to supervisors. Our team developed TMU GradTrack, a centralized, automated platform designed to
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Sometimes it’s hard to see our own strengths. We go through life’s challenges, focusing on getting through each day without fully realising just how much we’ve grown along the way. Recently, I came across a LinkedIn post that inspired me to reflect on this. It asked the question: “What is something you can tell me
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International Women’s Day is a global celebration of empowerment and progress. Across the world, women are breaking barriers and shaping futures with determination and resilience. As we observe this day, let us unite in our pursuit of equality, celebrating the unsung heroes whose courage has paved the way for change. Together, let’s embrace diversity, challenge
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Ever since I got the iPad, I have been obsessed with using it to take coding interview notes!
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The Technical Interview Preparation The Grind 75 of LeetCode For the questions I could not solve, I watched NeetCode Blind 75 YouTube videos The Tech Interview Handbook Skimmed through the data structures and algorithms cheatsheet. I learned all of these from class since I am a computer science major, so I only needed to
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I learned a ton from Pinterest’s software engineering internship program, designed to help aspiring software engineers get started in the field. I met a lot of amazing people, mainly extremely talented software engineers. Here are a few lessons that I learned from them. 📌 5 Lessons About Job Interviews in Tech 📌 📌 5 Lessons
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