Tbh, I'd hate to be a motivated CS-student today. You're just bombarded with the stuff that you should know - well, according to internet forums, at least. On

Tbh, I'd hate to be a motivated CS-student today. You're just bombarded with the stuff that you should know - well, according to internet forums, at least. On top of your basic CS curriculum, you should also be "crushing it" in: - Full-stack development - Research-level Machine Learning - Heavy side projects like creating your own crypto currency, algorithmic trading platform, or whatever. All while burning through the tens to hundreds of leetcode problems. And of course, if you're a frequent visitor of certain forums or blogging platforms, you will find some user that's doing all of the above. Flashy website, writing research papers on the latest ML/Deep Learning models, writing interactive and insightful tutorials on leetcode problems, all while keeping a 4.0 throughout their CS-studies and climbing up the career-ladder and getting better internships every year. I think that if you're comparing yourself to those types, and trying to keep up with them, you're gonna end up spending a lot of time without getting much done. Of course, all while visiting the usual suspects of time-thieves (FB, Twitter, HN, Reddit, etc.) There's this myth being perpetuated on most CS career forums (where 99% of the posters are other CS students) that you need to be some super-human rock star to even be worthy of the most lowly position. It's that, or bust.