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.

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.

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.

All CSE undergraduates who plan on pursuing an internship or full-time employment in 2011-12 should attend our CSE sponsored Employer Panel next 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 process.

Next Wednesday’s 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.

Additional upcoming CSE sponsored Autumn career events include:

Resume Review Roundtable Workshop — Tuesday, October 11 (CSE Atrium)

Technical Interview Coaching — Monday, October 24 (CSE Atrium)

Mock Technical Interviews — Tuesday, November 1 (CSE Building)

Watch for future announcements or contact CSE Advisor, Dave Rispoli at rispoli@cs for additional details of these events.

Amazon Info Session, 10/4, 6:00pm – 7:30 pm, EEB105 or EEB125

Interested in working at Amazon this summer? Networking? Want free food/stuff? Come to this event!

Google Tech Talk, 10/6,  6:00pm – 7:30 pm, EEB125

Come hear about google’s front end and back end projects and learn about some of the interesting problems they are solving.

Hey All,

It turns out the ACM elections are completely over!!!  For the elections not held, the candidates won by default! Here are the final results!

Chair: James Athappilly

Vice Chair: Milda Zizyte

Internal Relations: Tim Vega

External Relations: Jim Ionue

Treasurer: Peter Brook

Event Coordinator 1.5: Mary Pimenova

Event Coordinator 1.5: Steven Rutherford

Congratulations to our new ACM Officers!  I’m sure you will do a fine job when you take over next year!

In other news there is a Tech Talk TONIGHT at 6pm from a company that works heavily with Government Contracts, do check it out!!!

Chris Raastad

ACM Spambot-Not-For-Much-Longer…

Hey all,

A few random things…

0.) Berico Tech Talk

When: Wednesday April 13th (Tomorrow), 6:00pm-7:30pm

Where: CSE Atrium

What: Is SQL Dead? Please join Berico Technologies Senior Engineer Soup Shah as he explores the use of traditional Relational Databases vs. the new NoSQL/Cloud database approach. Discussions will take a high level approach before diving into the internals of the question and examining when is an appropriate time to use each one of the two paradigms. Following discussion of the main topic, Soup will answer any questions regarding cloud computing as well as its application in the national security arena. Food and beverages will be provided by Berico Technologies.  www.bericotechnologies.com   Presented by Sapan “Soup” Shah.

This company is from the East Coast, in D.C.,  (which is pretty rare for a tech talk here, 5 hour flights aren’t fun!) so it might be interesting to drop by.

1.) UW Spring Career Fair

When: Thursday April 14th, 3pm-7pm

Where: Alaska Airlines (no longer Bank of America) Arena

What: It’s UW’s largest career fair. But there are a fair number of tech companies that will be present eager to higher Software Engineers (aka us!).  If you are still looking for a job or internship do stop by! See the list for yourself, http://www.scribd.com/doc/52508971/2011-SCF-Employer-Guide.

2.) Greening-up-the-Labs

We are very fortunate for our printing privilegedes!  Now here is a way to automatically end those pesky cover sheets from printing from linux machines.  Run the following script in linux:

#!/bin/bash
# Sets the ugrad lab printers to print double-sided  without header pages
# Author: Krysta Yousoufian, 10/11/10

# Print double-sided in 002, 003, 006, and 022
lpoptions -p ps002 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps003 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps006 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps022 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble

# Turn off header pages in 002, 003, 006, and 022
lpoptions -p ps002 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps003 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps006 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps022 -o job-sheets=none

Once again thank Krysta Yousoufian for that tip! (Sorry for the delay… and we are still not sure how to do it automatically for windows!)

3.) Vote!

ACM elections are still going! Please vote!

Event Coordinators: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130683 (remember to vote for 2)
External Relations: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130685

Please vote by 11:59pm Tuesday April 12th (aka TODAY).

Enjoy the sunshine!

Chris/ACM

CSE-Ugrads,

It’s finally spring quarter! Hopefully the sun comes out more! The ACM is not as active this quarter as the previous two, but we still have a few things going on.

Remember, if you don’t want to read these emails you can subscribe to one of these calendars http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/events/ or http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html to know what’s going on in terms of tech talks.  Note that some things will only be posted here on the ugrad blog!

0.) Officer Elections

After nominations will close TODAY, Fri. April 1st at 11:59pm. Use the following link to nominate people you think would make great ACM officers (possibly including yourself).

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/127261

Once nominations close, there will be a meeting on Tuesday April 5th at 5:00pm in the ACM Lounge for acm members to meet the candidates and candidates to introduce themselves.  If you can’t go, either member or nominee, don’t fret, each candidate will have a short bio to represent themselves.  An email will go out to nominees with further details about positions.

Officer elections will run electronically starting next Wednesday April 6th, with one election per day, 5 elections total, for 7 positions.

1.) Smoothie Day!

On Friday, April 8th from 330-5pm at a location TBA (likely the atrium) we will have our first Smoothie day of spring quarter.  This is a great time to meet fellow CSE majors, have some inexpensive slushy treats, and celebrate friday! Smoothies run at $2 a pop.

2.) Isilon Tech Talk

When: Wed. April 6th, 5:30pm-7:00pm

Where: CSE Atrium

Description: Speaker is Al Hamel – Isilon’s technical manager for OneFS Performance who will talk about Isilon’s clustered file system OneFS and its impact on Data Storage.  There will be free food and they are accepting Resumes! www.isilon.com/careers

3.) NetApp Info Session

When: Thur. April 7th, 6:00pm-7:00pm

Where: CSE Atrium

Description: This computer storage and data management company is voted the 5th best place to work by Fortune magazine.  Check them out at http://www.netapp.com/us/careers/university/ This will of course carry free food and an opportunity to speak with recruiters!

Also, save the date May 20th 2011, this is the Spring BBQ you must go to and will hear much about in weeks to come.

Don’t forget to nominate your friends for ACM officer positions (including mine)! Happy Friday!

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations Email SPAMer Guy!

PS: Don’t forget to try out GMail’s amazing new awesome feature today! It will blow you away! 😉

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Cascadia Fellowships
To: Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>

Students,

Please note this opportunity.  It would be dumb to let students from
other schools in other parts of the country grab these opportunities!

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2011/02/24/cascadia-innovation-fellowships/
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