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It's hard to overstate how great FAANG internships are for giving a leg up in life to third world university students. Like Dalia, I thought it would be almost
by mFixman 6y ago
It's hard to overstate how great FAANG internships are for giving a leg up in life to third world university students.
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.
- ilianam 6y agoHow did you bomb that first internship? I wonder if there's a useful lesson to share here with Dalia and our broader community.
- mFixman 6y agoI 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.