Just landed my first internship in FAANG

It doesn’t feel real

I spend a lot of time this year working on side projects that that helped me gain proficiency in the tech stack I was interested in. I did metas front end and backend Coursera course. Building projects is very underrated. Create something that sounds cool to you and use a simple front end framework and a simple backend. Take advantage of OpenAI api and stripe api. And of course leetcode like crazy. This might be overkill but I did the neetcode 150 multiple times throughout the year to ensure I was confident in every topic when an interview opportunity came. I do go to a target school but this still applies because it was my first and only final round interview this season and my preparation definitely came in clutch 🙏