A collection of highly applicable advices for NUS CS students
General advice for developing your career:
- Find success in your internship
- Plan for a 40 years career
- Using level.fyi to check your market salary. Compensation, while not the only thing, is still quite important in decide what to pursue.
- Build project:
- Contributing to open-source project (OSS) is a good way to learn how to work with complex codebase. Good-first-issue give you the popular OSS projects that contains issue that they think beginner can work on.
- Building a clone of something is also a very good way to learn how it work: build-your-own-x.
- Have a strong CS fundamental. Good checklist for your fundamental Computer Science knowledge: what-cs-majors-should-know.
To help you find what you like
Technical stuff:
- Roadmap.sh is good to find if technical stuff in the specialization.
- On Frontend Engineer career
- On Quantitative Trading career
- On Site Reliability Engineering career
Choosing where to work:
- Big-tech vs Startup.
- Big-tech favored argument
- Paul Graham (Y Combinator), advices on a lot of things, startup included. This one about Airbnb success, for examples.
- Letter to a young programmer considering a startup
For help getting a job
On resume-related advice:
- Kenneth Lu's Resume Journey have a lot of good advice
- Yangshun's Guide on resume writing
- My old resume collection
Most companies use Leetcode for their interviews. If you absolutely want to find company not using Leetcode in their interview process, can checkout this collection.
Good Leetcode Preparation material for beginner:
- Blind75
- Needcode.io (highly recommended)
More comprehensively, you will also need to work on your behavioral, computer science, and in some rare cases, system designs. A good (and I mean very very very good) place to start preparing is this guide by Yangshun.
Beside that, here are some good read: