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About 10 years ago when I was still going to San Jose State University I began applying to SDE internship openings at various places in the Bay Area. I recall
by spike021 4y ago
About 10 years ago when I was still going to San Jose State University I began applying to SDE internship openings at various places in the Bay Area.
I recall one of {Uber, Lyft, AirBnb, Doordash, other similar place} having a drop-down on the application for the university I was attending.
There were roughly 10 universities. I can't remember all of them, maybe Stanford, CMU, Brown, Berkeley, etc. (typical top universities for CS/EE).
At the bottom of the list was "Other".
I was rejected within an hour or two of submitting my application. I don't want to say it was an automatic filter situation, but...