CSE Undergrad News

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

———- Forwarded message ———-
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.

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: 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

The CSE Resume Review Workshop will take place in the Allen Center Atrium next Tuesday, October 11 between 3:00 and 6:00 pm.

High-tech HR reps and engineers from Amazon, Boeing,  Facebook, Google, Isilon, Microsoft, Pariveda Solutions and whitepages will be on hand to review your resumes and provide tips to make them stand out.  Your resume is a vital part of your internship or full-time job search so all CSE undergraduates are urged to attend.

No rsvp is needed.  Students can arrive anytime between 3:00 and 5:30 pm.  Each individual review session lasts between 15 and 20 minutes.  After the first review students can opt to go to a second and third review.   Two or three reviews are recommended to get a good cross section of advice.  Make sure to bring at least three resumes or resume drafts!

This event is for CSE majors only.

For further information please contact CSE Advisor Dave Rispoli at rispoli@cs .

All CSE undergraduates who plan on pursuing an internship or full-time employment in 2011-12 should attend our CSE sponsored Employer Panel on Wednesday, October 5 from 5:30-6:30 pm in EE125.  The Employer Panel will be the  first in a series of highly recommended CSE career events designed to prepare our CSE undergraduates for the recruiting and job seeking process.

The event will feature a panel of HR reps and recent CSE graduates from local software companies who will provide details on what to expect from employers in the coming months so you can take the right steps to land the job of your dreams.  Attendee questions are very much encouraged.  You should leave this event with a better understanding of the timing and direction of your upcoming  job search.

Contact CSE Advisor, Dave Rispoli at rispoli@cs for additional details.

Crystal Eney
Academic Advisor – Lead
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington – Seattle

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From: Oren Etzioni <etzioni@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Unique opportunity to chat informally with Steve MacBeth of Bing.
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads-jobs – Email Alias <cs-ugrads-jobs@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: cs-grads – Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Email Alias <ugrad-advisors@cs.washington.edu>

Time:         Tuesday, 5pm.  (TOMORROW)

Location:  CSE 503.

Topic: search industry, Microsoft in general, summer internships at Bing, careers in computer science, and more.

Bio: Steve Macbeth is responsible for the overall search quality of Bing, including indexing, ranking, spelling, query understanding, contextual search and the overall relevance platform.

Prior to this role Steve was the General Manager and co-founder of the Search Technology Center Asia, located in Beijing, China where he lived and worked for over two years.  Steve joined Microsoft in Oct. 2002 and was initially a Group Program Manager in the Windows division working on support infrastructure and services.  Before moving to Beijing Steve was Kai-Fu Lee’s Technical Assistant in the Natural Interactive Services Division in Redmond, WA.

Prior to coming to Microsoft Steve was the founder and CTO of Riptide Technologies and pcsupport.com, two technology startups in Vancouver, Canada.

In addition to his work at Microsoft, Steve is a senior associate with the Foresight Institute, a non-profit think tank and public interest institute on nanotechnology and the impact of advanced technology on society.

Please email me if you are coming, so I make sure we have a large enough room.

Thanks,

Oren Etzioni

Professor, UW CSE

Co-Founder, Decide.com

Thursday(10/6):
Google office hours 12-4 (see calendar for more details)

Tech Talk 6pm in EE125 (see calendar for more details)

Friday(10/7):
Coffee Chats with Linus Chou, Google APM!

Every year, Google searches the globe looking for highly technical, passionate, and motivated new grads for the Google Associate Product Manager program. The APM program is an elite two-year rotational program, consisting of two one-year rotations, designed for top recent computer science graduates who are interested in exploring product development and leadership opportunities.  This select group is given access to unparalleled resources within Google to define new products, work closely with creative and prolific engineers, interact with executives to influence the business, and develop both personally and professionally.

For more information about the role please see:
http://www.google.com/jobs/students/us/technical/associate-product-manager-new-grad-north-america-locations/

What: Coffee Chat with a Google APM!
When: Friday, October 7th

Sounds great, how do I sign up?: Please submit your resume and transcripts to uw-apm-recruiting@google.com by Tuesday, October 4th.  Since we have
limited spots available, we will inform you by Wednesday, October 5th if you’ve been selected for a coffee chat.

The clouds are starting to go away so Frisbee is on. 4:30pm – 6:00pm in the Rainier Vista