Sarah Rose Hassan

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Automating Graduate Progress: How I Built TMU GradTrack using Next.js and Supabase

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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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My 3-Month Software Engineering Interview Preparation

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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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📌 10 Lessons I Learned From Interning at Pinterest 📌

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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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My 3rd Year of University: My First Computer Science Internship

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I spent my 3rd year at my first computer science internship! I worked as a product manager at SOTI. SOTI is a company that provides software to control mobile devices like phones and product managers prioritize which projects the business works on. Getting Hired Starting my internship felt like a dream. I was hired 2

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Sarah Rose's career change to software engineering journey, from a Shoppers Drug Mart cashier to a tech professional

From Shoppers Drug Mart Cashier to Product Manager: How I Survived a 1.1 GPA

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I believe the best way to find what you love in life is to do something you hate. For me, that meant spending years grinding 40-hour weeks as a cashier at Shoppers Drug Mart. While I was scanning items and managing the checkout line, I knew I wanted more. I took a massive risk and

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