In this episode, we sit down with Jamie Rollison, a senior at UIUC studying Computer Science, to discuss her unique journey from linguistics to Android development and how she landed internships at Intuit (fun story here!) and Stripe. Jamie shares insights on following her passions, building web and mobile apps at Hack4Impact, balancing college life, the cheating/grind culture, and navigating the competitive tech landscape. Whether you're a CS student, recent grad, or tech enthusiast, this episode has valuable takeaways about landing your first internships in tech!

Ellie is today's host. ✨ Recorded IRL in our Dumbo office. And congrats on the returning offer, Jamie! See you in NYC next August.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro + Bobas

(1:10) Building Apps at Hack4Impact

(5:08) The 1st internship at Intuit (Mountain View)

(7:43) The 2nd internship at Stripe (Seattle)

(12:21) Recruitment Season: Google, Palantir, trading cos

(15:57) Online Assessment (OA)

(18:13) College grind at UIUC

(20:11) Follow your passion in CS

(22:20) Cheating culture & assignments on GitHub

(28:24) Ellie's recap

(30:05) Personal projects & hackathons

(31:37) Outro (we are SO back!)

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Happy coding!