A software engineer sharing information I wish I had easy access to. From Placements, GRE, Scholarships for women, Resume Tips to Books to Read and Lifestyle things, Just Winging it is me skating through life and sharing bits along the way. Welcome to this engineering experience!
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Are you navigating your life clueless what you are doing?
Well maybe not, but I am. Just winging it, is me figuring stuff out along the way and kinda telling you about it.
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If you have landed here. First of all, Congratulations !! You are among the top selects and that is an achievement in itself. So, Kudos to you! 👏 I was a Generation Google Scholar (previously known as WomenTechMakers Scholar) in 2019. Below are some tips for cracking the interview process that I gathered over time. I hope they help 😊 Homework You Can Do: Prepare an answer for “Describe yourself”. Mainly focus on your technical skills and the activities you have done/are doing for the community. Prepare each project you have mentioned in your resume/answers properly. Make sure to know the following: Programming Languages, Libraries and Frameworks Impact of your work Things you learnt Features implemented and Possible Improvements Scalability and How to generate revenue Advertise Yourself Talk about women who inspire you! Figure out what “Being a Woman in Tech” means to you. Talk as if you are communicating with a friend and are discussing yo...
Resources Used: ETS Official Guide Free resources on the ETS Account Youtube Preparation: I bought and downloaded the 👉 e-book of the Official Guide as it comes with the audio files (for Listening and Speaking) and a test stimulator for the 3 practice tests at the end of the book. You can choose to buy the Paperback as well. It is cheaper. The only drawback here is that you'll either need to listen to the audios and attempt the tests using the DVD they provide with the book or you'll have to transfer everything from the DVD into your device. You can sign up for this 👉 edx course by ETSx . Doing this course saves you from reading all the introductions and instructions before each section in the Official Guide and lets you directly jump to the practice sets. I used this course for just the Reading and Listening sections. For the Writing and Speaking sections, I followed 👉 Noteful's videos . These are useful only when you make proper notes and lea...
Luckily, I came across this little something I wrote on returning from my first day at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women - one of the best universities in the world indeed! I am shocked at how a journey that started on such an exasperated note could turn out to be the best experience of my life. Anyway here it goes, my thoughts while summing up the first day of an Engineer in making! So, the realization that my life was not gonna be what I wanted it to be and how I just saw rows and rows of the same gender and a shabby campus, literally made me weep. Still, there I was with no clue of what I was supposed to do. Successfully butchering the last ounce of excitement left in me. Anyhow, I just took a deep breath in and tried to head towards my first class. Only if I knew where it was. We had to wait for nearly three hours in the auditorium which still had the Orientation banner on. Stupid government college. Goodnight Diary. Computer Scie...