CSE Undergrad News

Science & Engineering Career Fair

Science & Engineering Career Fair (Wednesday, Oct. 31st in the HUB Ballrooms)

The 2018 Science & Engineering Career Fair is less than a week away. We have an exciting line-up this year with employers eager to recruit UW students – including Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and national agencies hailing from a wide variety of industries (e.g., computer & software, aerospace, construction, research & technology, data science, and many more). *Reload the webpage to get the most current developments*
This is the largest recruiting event on campus with over 110+ employers focused entirely on science & engineering talent at UW. Employers are interested in students at all degree levels (BS, MS, and PhD students) for full-time, part-time and internship opportunities. International students also welcome. Companies include Alibaba, Honda, Phillips 66, Kenworth, Oppenheimerfunds, SAP Concur, and plenty more.
Visit our Career Fairs Plus app Web View portal to research, filter, and find the perfect employers. You can also download the app to your mobile device for on-the-go preparation.

Bring your best self to the career fair because the following employers will also be conducting on-campus interviews for selected candidates on Thursday and Friday next week:
- Micron Technology, Inc.
- Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
- FAST Enterprises
- Phillips 66
- Visa Inc.
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- IM Flash Technologies
- Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
- Kraemer North America, LLC
- Tata Consultancy Services
- Allstate
- McKinley Paper Company
- Venture General Contracting
- Maxim Integrated
- Millennium Space Systems
- CheckSum, LLC
- UPS
- Stryker Corporation
- Nova Group, Inc
- Edgile

Roadstar.ai will also be hosting an information session on Tuesday, Oct. 30th in HUB 332 from 6-9PM. Please see their attached flyer to learn more about Level 4 Autonomous Driving.

Witekio‘s flyer is also attached for those interested in positions related to coding and embedded software.

Axon (formerly Taser) also has open positions available right now:
- Summer Internships:10-weeks (starting the first week of June, 2019)
  - Summer Internship: General Business & Supply Chain Departments (2019)
  - Summer Internship: ME/EE Engineering Departments (2019)
- Development Program Cohort: 2-year, rotational commitment (starting in Sept, 2019)

Finally, SEBA is looking for motivated volunteers for this event. If you are interested, then please sign-up here.

For any questions about the Science & Engineering Career Fair, please contact Richard Lee at careerfair@uwseba.com

October 26, 2018

Events – week of October 22, 2018

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Monday, October 22^nd, 2:30-6 p.m., HUB ballroom

Data Science Career Fair: https://app.thefairsapp.com/#/fair/446/announcements

Monday, October 22^nd, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., table in the Atrium

Facebook office hours – infrastructure-focused

Monday, October 22^nd, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., 2^nd floor landing

Google office hours

Monday, October 22^nd, 12 noon – 3 p.m., table in the Atrium

Nutanix office hours

Monday, October 22^nd, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m., table in the Atrium

Disney office hours

Monday, October 22^nd, 6:00-7:00 p.m. – ECE 125

Salesforce Tech Talk – Your Cloud Application Always Fails, Yet it Still Works.

This talk will discuss when running a cloud application at scale, failures like reboots and bugs and network losses probably happen several times every day; however, this doesn’t have to be an impact for your customers. Food Provided.

Tuesday, October 23^rd, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., HUB Ballroom

Allen School Established career fair: https://app.thefairsapp.com/#/fair/448/announcements

Tuesday, October 23^rd, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – ECE 125

7^th Annual Q&A with Sift Science CEO, Jason Tan

Jason will talk about why this year was one of the most challenging years at Sift, as well as….

Tuesday, October 23^rd, 6:30-8:00 p.m. – ECE 037

Riot Games info session/tech talk

Riot alumni are here to share their journey into the games industry and their tips, tricks, lessons learned throughout their experiences. We’ll also cover aspects of the application and interview process so you’re prepared for the next step in your career!

Wednesday, October 24^th, 1:00-5:00 p.m. – Atrium

Allen School Startup/Smaller Company Recruiting Fair: https://app.thefairsapp.com/#/fair/449/announcements

Wednesday, October 24^th, 6-7 p.m. – ECE125

Airbnb tech talk

This is the perfect opportunity to learn more about Airbnb’s technical challenges and innovations, and interact with Airbnb engineers and recruiters.

RSVP here: https://airbnbuwtechtalk2018.splashthat.com/.

Wednesday, October 24^th, 6:00-7:30 p.m., ECE037

Rubrik tech talk

Rubrik delivers automated backup, recovery, archival, search, cloud, and development in a simple, scale-out platform built for hybrid cloud. Come learn more about this growing cloud data management company!

Thursday, October 25^th, 5:30-7 p.m., ECE125

ClassPass tech talk

There will be food, drinks, and a Q&A session to learn more about ClassPass!

Thursday, October 25^th, 6:30-8:30 p.m., ECE037

Beyond Limits tech talk

RSVP @ https://bit.Joinly/2J2JN9g

Friday, October 19^th, 1-3 p.m., table in the Atrium

Microsoft office hours

Stop by and chat with team members from Microsoft.

October 22, 2018

Information on our upcoming career fairs – week of 10/22/18

Hello!

Just a reminder that our career fairs are this week. Student focused information about the recruiting fairs and events may be viewed at www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2018/studentinfo.

REMINDER: We are using The Fairs App this year. Please download the app to get information on the companies participating in all our fairs.

Link to download the app from the Apple App Store (iPhone/iPad): https://thefairsapp.com/ios
Link to download the app from the Google Play Store (Android): https://thefairsapp.com/android
Search on ‘UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering’ to find the links to our fairs.

October 21, 2018

Sift Science and Chipotle Burritos, Tuesday Oct. 23rd at 6:30, ECE 125

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:01 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Sift Science and Chipotle Burritos, Tuesday at 6:30, ECE 125

Jason Tan is a phenomenal alum who co-founded Sift Science, a really
interesting fraud detection company with offices in San Francisco and
Seattle. (Zorah Fung, known to many of you, works in the Seattle
office.)

On Tuesday evening at 6:30, for the 7th year in a row, Jason will do a
presentation and Q&A on the startup experience.

Jason is super-engaging. And lots has happened at Sift Science in the
past year – the stresses and strains of growth and competition – so
even if you’ve heard him before, it’s worth hearing him again. Plus,
we’ve moved on from pizza and burgers to burritos!

7th Annual Informal Q&A with

Sift Science CEO and UW CSE ‘06 Alum

Jason Tan

Tuesday, October 23rd @ 6:30pm in ECE 125

Jason will talk about why this year was one of the most challenging
years at Sift, as well as….
● Building a company
● Differences between the workplace and school
● Making the most of your time at UW
● Preparing for an internship or fulltime job in industry
● Our Seattle Office
● And whatever else you want to know…

And, we’ll have Chipotle Burritos

October 18, 2018

Airbnb and Apple events with ACM-W next week!

Hello everyone! Join ACM-W for networking events with Airbnb and Apple next week.

Airbnb:

RSVP here: https://airbnbacmw2018.splashthat.com/

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1088867441273701/

Visit Airbnb’s brand new Seattle office and join ACM-W for dinner with recruiters and engineers. Learn about the technical challenges you can work on, how you can have an impact at Airbnb, and network with Airbnb.
They are looking to hire new grads and interns and will be recruiting. Lyft codes will be provided for transportation, and sent to the email you RSVP’d with closer to event.

Apple:

RSVP here: http://applecorp.avature.net/UWashingtonnetworking

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/262343771083905/

Apple would like to invite ACM-W members to Apple’s upcoming Engineering Networking Event at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. The event will be taking place in the HUB’s Lyceum Ballroom, from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. They will have representation from engineering teams across Apple eager to connect with both undergrad and graduate students seeking internships, co-ops or full-time positions. You can list your preferred arrival time when you RSVP. All students who register ahead of the event will receive a confirmation email with their arrival time assignment by Tuesday, 10/23. Any questions can be directed to uwashington@apple.com.

See you there!

– ACM-W

October 18, 2018

Career Fair Prep Workshops: “What to Expect at the Career Fair”

Hello everyone! Recruiting season is right around the corner, and ACM and ACM-W are partnering up again to make sure that you are ready to put your best foot forward. Come attend our career fair prep workshops for an overview of what you should expect at a career fair and how to best prepare. Included will be:

– Tips on interacting with companies
– Helpful Do’s and Don’t’s

-Resume advice

Find out more about the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1884625944908536. As always, all CSE students are welcome to attend — see you there!

Note: There are two identical sessions being offered, one on Tuesday (10/16) from 4:00PM – 5:00PM in EEB 125 and the other on Thursday (10/18) from 4:00PM – 5:00PM in SIEG 134. Please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/zFHHKvO9D4cJSVGZ

October 16, 2018

Events – week of October 15, 2018

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Monday – Friday, 10-11:30 a.m. & 1:30-4 p.m. – Atrium

Pick up your name badge and lanyard

Monday, October 15^th, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Atrium

Okta Meet & Greet

Monday, October 15^th, 6 p.m. – ECE 125

Rover tech talk

We’re so excited to be speaking at UW and we’d love to meet you! Please come join us at 6pm on Monday, October 15th for dinner and a combined info session and tech talk.

We are passionate about our amazing mission — enabling more people to experience the unconditional love of a dog — and we’ll tell you all about how we’re accomplishing that. We’ll discuss our values, our culture, our marketplace, and our software. Philip Kimmey, one of our Co-Founders and Director, will talk in detail about the technical and business challenges of our newest service, Rover Now, enabling dog owners to rely on Rover to line up a perfect dog-walker at a specific time and place. Phil will also share some of the hallmarks of our engineering culture, such as how we utilize machine learning, experimentation, split testing, and data analysis to formulate data-driven decisions and strategies

Tuesday, October 16^th, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – ECE 125

Zillow tech talk
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/y7dpzrje

Wednesday, October 17^th, 6-7 p.m. – ECE125

NVIDIA tech talk

Sign Up: bit.ly/nvtalkuw
Title: Stereo Cameras on Drones: End-to-end Deep Neura lNetworks for Reliable Depth Perception
Speaker: Nikolai Smolyanskiy

Wednesday, October 17^th, 6:30-7:30 p.m., ECE037

Think Outside the Valley: Two Sigma Quant talk

At Two Sigma, our community of scientists, technologists and academics collaborate to solve some of the most challenging economic problems.

We rely on the scientific method, rooted in hypothesis, analysis, and experimentation, to drive data-driven decisions, to manage risk, and to expand into new areas of focus. In this way, we create systematic tools and technologies to forecast the future of global markets.

If you’re interested in hearing more about the scientific method to modeling, please join our Quant Talk. There will be food and refreshments provided. Please register for a spot here. We hope to see you there!

Thursday, October 18^th, 6-7 p.m., ECE125

Microsoft Tech Talk

More information to follow

Friday, October 19^th, 1-3 p.m., table in the Atrium

Microsoft office hours

Stop by and chat with team members from Microsoft.

October 15, 2018

career fairs are coming up – some important information

Student info page for the Allen School career fair:

https://www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2018/studentinfo

The fall 2018 industry affiliates recruiting fairs are just around the corner:

UW Data Science fair: Monday, October 22, 1:00-6:00 p.m. in the Ballroom at the HUB. More information regarding this fair may be viewed here.
Established company fair: Tuesday, October 23, 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. in the Ballroom (2nd floor) at the HUB. More information about participating companies will be available shortly.
Startup and smaller company fair: Wednesday, October 24, 1:00-5:00 p.m. in the Atrium. More information about participating companies will be available shortly.

Tech talks and other events:

We have several technical talks scheduled this fall, brought to you by our various industry affiliate partners. Please be sure to attend these. The schedule for talks is listed on the undergraduate advising calendar.

Important things to remember:

Participate in all events – particularly the recruiting fairs.

Be sure to pick up your name badge prior to the recruiting events. This is how the recruiters will know you are an Allen School (CSE) student. Check here for more info.

Be sure to bring your Husky Card with you. You will be asked to swipe your card for entry for all career fairs. This must be done before you will be able to enter the fair.

Add your resume to the new Resume Database for Affiliate companies to search.

Bring copies of your resume to the fairs.

Make sure your contact information is clearly visible.

Dress appropriately.

October 11, 2018

[ACM] Interview Prep Mondays

Happy Interview Season!

ACM will be hosting technical interview prep Mondays in CSE 305 from 6:00PM – 7:00PM throughout the quarter.

The interview prep sessions will be an opportunity for you and a group to go over a couple of practice technical interview questions. Feel free to attend multiple dates, if not all of the sessions! The sessions are open to people of all experience levels. Whether you have never completed a technical interview or have completed multiple, you are welcome to join us. Please bring paper and pen. 🙂

The first technical interview prep event will be next Monday, October 15th at 6PM. See you there!

October 10, 2018

Events – week of October 8, 2018

Welcome to the second full week of the fall quarter! Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Tuesday, October 9^th, 5:45-7:00 p.m., ECE125
THINK BEYOND THE VALLEY: Convoy tech talk

“Not a tech talk” tech talk. Learn more about the company from one of its engineers.

Tuesday, October 9^th, 6-7:45 p.m., SIG134
Airbnb Technical Interview Workshop

We invite you to join us for a technical interview workshop led by one of our own engineers. This workshop will dive deep into Airbnb interview best practices, as well as walk through a sample problem similar to our technical interviews.

RSVP: https://uwairbnbworkshop2018.splashthat.com/#rsvp

Wednesday, October 10^th, 12:00-3:00 p.m., table in Atrium
Nutanix office hours

At Nutanix, we are looking for the next group of innovative and passionate students to join our family. Interested in learning more about Nutanix, our interview process, or just want to stop by and say hello? We’ll be hosting office hours today! Stop by and learn more about our mission!

Wednesday, October 10^th, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Atrium
Resume Review Workshop

This workshop is designed to allow you to gather tips from the experts to turn your resume drafts into documents that will help land your dream job or internship.

All you need to attend is a few printed copies of your resume – anything from a rough draft to almost-finished product is fine. Show up anytime between 3:00 and 5:00 pm (plan on 20 minutes per review) to share your resume with 1 or more recruiters or technical interview experts from several of our affiliate companies, both large and small. These experts will provide resume advice to get your resume in great shape for the upcoming recruiting fair on October 23^rd and 24^th.

Wednesday, October 10^th, 6 p.m., ECE125
Nutanix tech talk

More information to follow.

Thursday, October 11^th, 6-7 p.m., ECE125
Extrahop Networks Tech Talk

More information to follow

Thursday, October 11^th, 5:30-7 p.m., 134 Mary Gates Hall
AI at Bloomberg

Decision makers across the global finance industry look to Bloomberg to deliver timely political, business and financial information and insight. Today, a large part of this insight is derived using artificial intelligence (AI). The practice of AI at Bloomberg presents its researchers with the unique challenges associated with building low-latency, and highly-available, systems to find needles within haystacks of data. in this talk, we will introduce the wide variety of problems that we solve using AI at Bloomberg and provide a brief overview of the cutting-edge AI research that our teams have recently published.

Friday, October 5^th, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., table in the Atrium
Deloitte meet & greet

Stop by and chat with team members from Deloitte and the opportunities at Deloitte.

Friday, October 5^th, 1-3 p.m., table in the Atrium
Microsoft office hours

Stop by and chat with team members from Microsoft.

October 8, 2018