2022 Summer Internship Interview Experience (Microsoft, Synology, Trend Micro, GoFreight, OnwardSecurity, MediaTek)
Background NTNU CSIE (everyone assumes we’re at the Guting campus on Heping East Road, but CS is actually on Tingzhou Road) Started coding in 10th grade, though by high school graduation my skill level was about on par with a freshman at one of the “Zhong” universities (NCU, NSYSU, NCHU, CCU — the cluster ranked just below the top four in Taiwan) ICPC Silver Award x2 (my teammates carried hard ><) Algorithm TA for two semesters Built an Online Judge as a side project Gave a talk about OJ development at SITCON Two-month internship at a cybersecurity company Dabbled in CTF and NASA (network security) but never got really good at any of them Preparation Solved around 20 Leetcode problems, following the Grind75 order The English resume took quite a bit of time — I spent about two weeks refining it Overview Fair warning: lots of rambling below. Feel free to skip straight to the company you’re interested in. ...