CSE Undergrad News

From: James Athappilly <jamesath@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Last minute résumé help
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu

Yin, the Google recruiter for the UW will be in CSE 204 to help anyone with last minute résumé questions. She’ll be here until 5pm.

Wednesday October 19th 4:30 PM EEB 403

The U.S. Air Force is looking for Computer Science and Engineering sophomores and juniors for the Technical Degree Sponsorship Program.

This program is a great way to earn money while in school, work on the cutting edge in engineering, commission as a U.S. Air Force officer, and serve your country.

— Earn $3000 a month for up 2 years (through the summer) while in school with no military component! No ROTC-like training while in school! Focus 100% on your degree!
— During the summer, find internships with tech companies and get paid on top of it with your Air Force salary!
— Upon graduation, enter into a four year commitment as an Air Force engineering officer with a competitive engineering salary and benefits.
— All the benefits of an active-duty military member including discounts and retirement time earnings – while you are a student.
— Complete, comprehensive, and free medical, dental and vision healthcare while you are in school!
— A path towards a great engineering career with broad opportunities for graduate education through the GI Bill and tuition assistance.

If you are unable to attend, please contact Benjamin Nguyen at bnguyen@ee.washington.edu for more information!

CSE undergrads who will be interviewing for a full-time or internship position over the next year and who would benefit from a preview of the technical interview questions they will face (this should include almost all CSE ugrads!) should attend the CSE Technical Interview Coaching Event next Monday, October 24 in the Atrium.

This event features technical interviewers from Amazon, Boeing, Google, Isilon, Microsoft, Pariveda Solutions, Tableau Software and whitepages who will meet with two to four students at a time.  The interviewers will describe their technical interview process, give students a few sample questions and coach students on what they look for in answers.  The sessions will include sample programming questions, logic questions and puzzles. These experts will also provide examples of what they ask in actual technical interviews and how to successfully answer to land the job.

Students will have three individual sessions of 15 minutes each with three different company volunteers.

RSVP’s are necessary and easy to make.  Just use the link below to choose between sessions starting at 3:30 or 4:30 pm.  (Sessions last one hour and are comprised of three 15-20 minute individual coaching sessions.)

Space is limited –  RSVP now!  The RSVP deadline for this event is this Thursday, October, 20 at 7:00 am, so please don’t delay.

Please contact CSE Advisor Dave Rispoli (rispoli @ cs)  for any additional information on this event.

CSE Resume database: www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/afterlife/careers.html (top right link)

Companies Recruiting: www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/recruit-co-1112.html

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From Ed Lazowska

PLEASE get your resumes into the system and TURN OUT IN FORCE on
Thursday from 10-3.

We have had to expand to the Gates Commons – we will squeeze in 59
companies and still have had to turn some away.

Also, a note:  If you encounter students who are not UW Computer
Science or Computer Engineering majors, please tip one of us off –
this event is intended for *our* students and *our* affiliated
companies.

See you on Thursday!!
_______________________________________________

Palantir Info Session, Monday(TODAY) Oct. 17 6:00pm EEB125
Palantir is revolutionizing the way financial and governmental analysts are interacting with massive datasets. They offer platforms for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing the world’s information. The platforms support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Furthermore, their platforms are built for real analysis with a focus on security, scalability, ease of use, and collaboration. Come see a live demo of how their software works to tackle hard, important, and globally relevant problems.

VMWare Tech Talk, Tuesday Oct. 18 4:30pm-5:30pm EEB303
VMware develops virtualization software that lets users run multiple operating systems on a single physical machine. One feature of VMs saving the state of running “virtual machine” and loading that state in the future. However, loading a saved VM can be time-consuming because the state, including a large memory image, must be fetched from persistent storage. This talk will present an improved technique for restoring saved VMs using working set estimation.

Plus, hear from UW Alum, Jehad Affoneh, on his recent experience in job hunting, making the tough decision, including his tips on the best approach, and what his experience has been like working in a software company the past few months.

Yelp Info Session, Tuesday Oct. 18 6:00pm-7:00pm EEB125
Yelp is an online urban city guide that helps people find cool places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play, based on the opinions of its users. Yelp is a fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what’s great — and not so great — in your world.

Industrial Affiliates Recruiting Fair, Thursday Oct. 20 10:00am-3:00pm Atrium
UW CSE has relationships with tons of software companies looking for all sorts of students. Come out this Thursday to get your resume around and rub elbows with recruiters.

Intel Career Night, Thursday Oct. 20 6:00pm-7:00pm EEB125
Find out how you can be part of Moore’s Law this Thursday. The Software Solutions Group, Microprocessor Development Group, Visual and Parallel Computing Group, and the PC Client Group will all have representatives present. Please bring your resume.

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Job offers
To: Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

I understand that some of you are getting pressured by two week
deadlines on job offers.  Please let Kay Beck-Benton know of specific
situations.  We attempt to enforce a more reasonable policy, stated
here:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/employerpolicy.html

We are happy to remind companies of this policy.

Note that there is a flip side to the coin:  in fairness to the
companies, and to your fellow students, it’s important to deal in a
high integrity manner with all companies, and to make your decision as
quickly as possible.
____________________

CodeSprint started yesterday at noon and runs until Wed Oct 12. Apply to 50 companies simultaneously by solving a single set of technical challenge.
http://codesprint.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges/

Microsoft Info Session today 6p-7p EEB125. Come learn about technical opportunities at Microsoft, grab free food, and enter yourself for a chance to win a XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle and other prizes.

Qualcomm Info Session Wed Oct 12 6pm EEB125. Learn about internship and new grad positions, snag some grub, and stay for the giveaways and raffle.

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:25 AM
Subject: UW CSE entrepreneurship

I gave a talk in the Software Entrepreneurship course on Thursday
evening.  I’ve put a small subset of my slides up on the web: a couple
of intro slides, and an overview of UW CSE entrepreneurial impact.

http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/Lazowska.Entrepreneurship.2011.pdf

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From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] career fair
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, vgrads – Mailing List <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>

In a week and a half (Oct. 20th) we will have our annual fall career fair — a great opportunity to talk to recruiters about both internships and permanent jobs in great companies.   This year’s fair will have more companies recruiting than ever before — in fact, we will have companies located both in the Allen Center atrium and upstairs in the commons on the 6th floor.    Here’s the current list of companies that will be recruiting:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/recruit-co-1112.html

I hope you will attend and talk to as many of the companies as you can — it’s a great opportunity to learn about different job possibilities.

thanks!

hank