I remember feeling like shit not being able to get any internship during my time at uni but now I work as a full time developer. It all works out in the end, no matter how shitty it may feel right now. Thanks for sharing your updates!
Same right here. No internships but still got an offer 3 months out of college. Jumped to a new company now and working full-time full-stack developer.
I am also a third year student studying CS struggling to find an internship. It gets so hard to find motivation when you've been taking solid Ls in life.
@Cristiano Benedetto And you know what's even more demoralizing? Getting to those final steps thinking you are finally making it, fantasizing on how you gonna kick-start all the plans you had for when you get the position, and the things you have in pause right now because you need this to keep moving forward with the rest of your life. And also meeting these talkative and nice recruiters or hiring managers that you meet in a interview round while acing the questions thinking you are killing it and thinking that they are liking and considering you for this position only for then later they reject you with a one line email telling you that they chose another candidate who either has an almost insignificant small advantage over you like he knows or someone leagues about you who worked for faang or something like that. In the end applying for jobs is like performing. You are mounting a whole spectacle to charm and enchant the hiring team with lots of sound and smoke. With lot of style and no substance. They want to see you dance like a monkey and to win you should give them what they want, this is the conclusion I've reached with this experience.
man, thank you for this video. i was applying for almost 8 months for internships and got nothing but rejections after rejections. until about 2 days ago when i finally landed a JOB! i really like watching your videos and so it was nice to see that i wasn't going this alone. i'm so happy for you, i hope your career flourishes from now on!
Bro I am so jealous of your gainz. Thanks for briefly sharing your progress cause honestly its really a lot! congrats on your upcoming internship just dont forget to go to the gym.
They been putting you through it man but glad you stuck with it and got a position! Commented on a video a while back that I had finally gotten an internship after a couple years of trying. Internship turned into a full time position after graduating which is awesome and I’m loving. To anyone reading this don’t ever give up. All it takes is one chance so gotta stay positive.
Love your videos man. You keep it real unlike those fakes who only rub their successes onto ppls faces. You take the time to show the ins and outs of the reality and remain modest and transparent. Keep up this great work man. Wish you the best in the next journey ahead of you
Your hard work and dedication is motivating and inspiring! I am just applying to entry level jobs with a non-traditional background at 24, with a handful of interviews. No job yet, but I still continue working hard and applying after seeing people like you. I have no doubt you will be extremely successful in your career and I look forward to future content from you! Congrats on the internship!
@@nicholast Hi! I just wanted to let you know I got hired for my first dev role! 🎉🎉🎉 I know you've got big things ahead too but I just wanted to share the good news :)
I'm a SWE who got laid off earlier this year and looking as a mid-level has been TOUGH. Everywhere companies are conserving runway and mostly hiring tech leads, staffs, and seniors. Nobody wants to train someone green right now, even though I am able to contribute as mid-level. I can't even begin to imagine how tough it is for new grads right now. It's a bloodbath out here.
Congrats man! Been following you for a while and I love your videos :) Im hoping to get into coding freelance this summer so it's great seeing you achieve success!
Woo, congrats landing a summer internship in the first round, the grind paid off. I'm going into second cycle - hopefully it's gonna turn out better. Hope to see you in the school gym soon, love the progress you've made 💪💪
dig your videos man, I'm an industrial engineer major who wants a career path in data science. CS was always a challenge but gradually becoming better. keep up the great content brother
Interviewing is a skill as well bro. Keep practicing but as a fellow engineer i hate it and i dont practice. Now that my peers/network know my skills i no longer worry. Always be a 10x engineer / outperform your colleagues. Outperforming doesnt mean more hours btw it means solving the harder problems 😎✊🏽. Keep the good content coming bro
In the time that I first found your channel I myself was motivated from the first video I watched of you to finally start school myself at Full-Sail in their software engineering course. It has been...interesting to say the least but I am hanging in there and glad to see that you're hitting your milestones.
Every time I hate learning stats/probability I tell myself "this is the closest thing we have to predicting the future " to get myself excited for probability. It kind of works.
I understand this experience in my own field. I graduated with a C.S. degree, not for coding but more for MSP break/fix things, and it took easily 100+ applications, numerous interviews, many second interviews, and a few third/final interviews, over the course of nearly a year before landing my first job in my field. The problem that we are going to face, respectively, is the sheer volume of applications towards jobs, especially now that remote is a thing. You are against *everyone*, in the world, who many will be either equally as qualified, or even more so, or a hundred other potential reasons why they choose someone else. The only answer to this is just brute force your way in each time. Eventually, the odds will be in you favor.
Congrats! I'm about to graduate, I'm in the application/interview grind while also juggling sickness and a class where everything that can go wrong is going wrong and the professor has no interest in helping.
Congrats for landing an internship!! But also you just gave me so much stress bc I'm pretty much doomed for Summer 2023 internships if it took you 200 apps when you have 3 internships 😭
Something about hearing others struggle is cathartic to my own failures. The mental game needs to be strong. Just remember the Ls are the road to the dub!
Nicholas I have strong 5 years in the industry and you have been a joy to watch. If you ever need help with branding/resume writing I'm here to help absolutely free
You are the one who inspired me to embark on my first serious journey with software development. I'm not legal age yet so I can't really apply for a job, but I'm building some fun semi-portfolio projects rn in hope of landing it someday in the future
Laughing at the part on Operating Systems course. This is like a whole different world when coming from the software engineering courses. But in hindsight, this is really useful stuff to understand how to write better algorithms. And it could be a fundamental if you decide to go into drivers or writing your own OS one day.
Great to see you back. Saw like 2 of your videos randomly a while back and your content is fire. Looking forward for what’s to come on your channel. P.S hope you can land a NY engineering gig at some point. Lots of great places to work in the software space you won’t be disappointed.
So insecure, only posting whenever life is good haha. Could've posted that blog of when you failed, could've posted about your struggles of finding a job. Nope! Only post after you get the internship, love it. True role model, only want to be transparent whenever something goes your way again. Frying pan is infinitely better.
Graduated with no internships because they got cancelled due to COVID. Now here I am 10 months after graduation with 0 work experience, at least 300 rejections, and still haven't been able to find a job. Feel at my lowest right now.
With all honesty, I spent 6 years studying CS. Half way through I realized I wasn’t passionate about programming but I was too deep in to quit. I was chasing the field purely because I thought it would bring me financial gain without any consideration as to whether or not it would make me happy. Now I work doing administrative work so that I can earn enough to pursue my true passion which is baking. I had to find ways to still implement my programming skills so that it wouldn’t have been a waste of time, so I solo develop Android apps on the side.
Really happy for you but I have watched other developers go through this and it makes me so upset that if smart devs like yourself can get rejected so many times then I can never find an internship/ job 😢
Nicholas bro, I got into Waterloo CS 2023. I was hoping that you may guide me during my high school to uni transition. I just wanna know about the electives available for me, the clubs and any other general info. See ya this fall!
Ah yes, loved the fact that we got CS341 grades after a month when they were due 🤣. Also same took 231 last term...5 fricking terms after 230 and didn't remember shit lmfao.
Nick, I am currently a sophmore at a pretty highly ranked school for computer science and I have applied for 200+ internships. I have only gotten 4 first round interviews nothing more. You seem to be having success I can not find. I have done done some projects to make my resume more appealing, but this did not help. Could you make a video on what steps you took to get the internships you did land? Thanks.
Whats the chance of landing an internship in 2023 with no college degree in CS and just doing bootcamp and learning on your own? I cant imagine still being motivated after getting rejected so many times.
Why do you guys get an insane amount of internships? (Frying pan, you, Alex the song guy) surely it’d be easier to just apply for full time jobs instead
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You been going through a lot, glad someone recognized your greatness
ur great
but you have 140k subs, why do you need a se job?
I remember feeling like shit not being able to get any internship during my time at uni but now I work as a full time developer. It all works out in the end, no matter how shitty it may feel right now. Thanks for sharing your updates!
it always works out in the end 🙏
working so hard but not getting any offers;_;
Bruh, you cannot understand how much I need to hear this. Thx
Same right here. No internships but still got an offer 3 months out of college. Jumped to a new company now and working full-time full-stack developer.
Most relatable stuff I've read , only mine was in graphic design.
I am also a third year student studying CS struggling to find an internship. It gets so hard to find motivation when you've been taking solid Ls in life.
Keep going, big things ahead 💪
This mans life is a god damn roller coaster, keep up the motivation king!
The amount of honesty and authenticity you have is so inspiring. You're very real and it's refreshing to see that. Keep slaying man
nice that you post your struggles, and not just the success stories like several other RUclipsrs : )
man, he's a Waterloo student, I think this is already a success, the path is almost done, a Waterloo person or a self-taught?
@@JoaoVitor-uk3vi is waterloo something comparable like harvard in the us?
Bro is literally going through his training arc! These tough times is going to turn you into a Beast, keep grinding!
I think I've had more than 700 rejections. I feel at my lowest right now, I wasn't aware how much of a toll would take to my self esteem.
I'm so sorry for this. Hopefully, one clicks soon.
@Cristiano Benedetto And you know what's even more demoralizing? Getting to those final steps thinking you are finally making it, fantasizing on how you gonna kick-start all the plans you had for when you get the position, and the things you have in pause right now because you need this to keep moving forward with the rest of your life.
And also meeting these talkative and nice recruiters or hiring managers that you meet in a interview round while acing the questions thinking you are killing it and thinking that they are liking and considering you for this position only for then later they reject you with a one line email telling you that they chose another candidate who either has an almost insignificant small advantage over you like he knows or someone leagues about you who worked for faang or something like that.
In the end applying for jobs is like performing. You are mounting a whole spectacle to charm and enchant the hiring team with lots of sound and smoke. With lot of style and no substance.
They want to see you dance like a monkey and to win you should give them what they want, this is the conclusion I've reached with this experience.
@@jan0195 do you have a degree?
@@JamesMcAlea Nope.
@@jan0195did you find a job already?
man, thank you for this video. i was applying for almost 8 months for internships and got nothing but rejections after rejections. until about 2 days ago when i finally landed a JOB! i really like watching your videos and so it was nice to see that i wasn't going this alone. i'm so happy for you, i hope your career flourishes from now on!
lets gooo congrats on getting the job 💯💯
That’s incredible bro!
Bro I am so jealous of your gainz. Thanks for briefly sharing your progress cause honestly its really a lot! congrats on your upcoming internship just dont forget to go to the gym.
nice initials :)
They been putting you through it man but glad you stuck with it and got a position!
Commented on a video a while back that I had finally gotten an internship after a couple years of trying. Internship turned into a full time position after graduating which is awesome and I’m loving. To anyone reading this don’t ever give up. All it takes is one chance so gotta stay positive.
I feel the struggle my friend, glad u pulled through
WAIT PAN DID U GET A JOB
@@bendoverDN 👀
@@bendoverDN Pan MADE the job 😌
ndex.gg 🚀🚀
Let’s just start a company 😪
I feel the struggle! Pretty inspiring to see you did not quit after 200 applications!
Love your videos man. You keep it real unlike those fakes who only rub their successes onto ppls faces. You take the time to show the ins and outs of the reality and remain modest and transparent. Keep up this great work man. Wish you the best in the next journey ahead of you
thanks rayhan, really appreciate the support :)
4:17 that "Damn" was so raw, I could feel like a thousand emotions conveyed through it.
Dang! I hadn't heard from you in ages. So congrats on getting an internship sorted out for the summer. I look forward to your future content
appreciate it :)
it'll all work out nick congrats on landing a job and nice gym progress!
thanks kevin i'm tryna get like you one day 💪
@@nicholast whenever you're in NY lmk and we'll hit a lift ♥️
congrats bro!!
glad to see your video again! you always make me smile
:))
Your hard work and dedication is motivating and inspiring! I am just applying to entry level jobs with a non-traditional background at 24, with a handful of interviews. No job yet, but I still continue working hard and applying after seeing people like you. I have no doubt you will be extremely successful in your career and I look forward to future content from you! Congrats on the internship!
appreciate the support! keep pushing hard, big things ahead for u :)
@@nicholast Hi! I just wanted to let you know I got hired for my first dev role! 🎉🎉🎉 I know you've got big things ahead too but I just wanted to share the good news :)
@@Rynide THAT'S AWESOME CONGRATSSSS
Thank you so much! I'm excited to begin this new career 😄
Actually these types of vlogs are so good Nicholas, I can really relate much to them lol
I'm a SWE who got laid off earlier this year and looking as a mid-level has been TOUGH. Everywhere companies are conserving runway and mostly hiring tech leads, staffs, and seniors. Nobody wants to train someone green right now, even though I am able to contribute as mid-level.
I can't even begin to imagine how tough it is for new grads right now. It's a bloodbath out here.
Congrats man! Been following you for a while and I love your videos :) Im hoping to get into coding freelance this summer so it's great seeing you achieve success!
i appreciate it- all the best with the freelance work :)
Woo, congrats landing a summer internship in the first round, the grind paid off. I'm going into second cycle - hopefully it's gonna turn out better. Hope to see you in the school gym soon, love the progress you've made 💪💪
thanks bro! best of luck with cycle 2, i'm sure you'll do great :)
dig your videos man, I'm an industrial engineer major who wants a career path in data science. CS was always a challenge but gradually becoming better. keep up the great content brother
Interviewing is a skill as well bro. Keep practicing but as a fellow engineer i hate it and i dont practice. Now that my peers/network know my skills i no longer worry. Always be a 10x engineer / outperform your colleagues. Outperforming doesnt mean more hours btw it means solving the harder problems 😎✊🏽. Keep the good content coming bro
Don't really follow your content to closely but god damn at those gym before and afters, motivation right there.
Congrats. mate!!!
In the time that I first found your channel I myself was motivated from the first video I watched of you to finally start school myself at Full-Sail in their software engineering course. It has been...interesting to say the least but I am hanging in there and glad to see that you're hitting your milestones.
Every time I hate learning stats/probability I tell myself "this is the closest thing we have to predicting the future " to get myself excited for probability. It kind of works.
Happy for you man ! Glad to see you winning, as I've been watching your videos since the beginning
pan and nick upload on the same day is crazy. Congrats!
200 for a internship, you are the man. I am right now applying SOC job, been almost 7 months,
I understand this experience in my own field. I graduated with a C.S. degree, not for coding but more for MSP break/fix things, and it took easily 100+ applications, numerous interviews, many second interviews, and a few third/final interviews, over the course of nearly a year before landing my first job in my field. The problem that we are going to face, respectively, is the sheer volume of applications towards jobs, especially now that remote is a thing. You are against *everyone*, in the world, who many will be either equally as qualified, or even more so, or a hundred other potential reasons why they choose someone else. The only answer to this is just brute force your way in each time. Eventually, the odds will be in you favor.
The man, the myth, the legend is back. Props for the internship and the massive gainz 💪
Congrats! I'm about to graduate, I'm in the application/interview grind while also juggling sickness and a class where everything that can go wrong is going wrong and the professor has no interest in helping.
Congrats for landing an internship!!
But also you just gave me so much stress bc I'm pretty much doomed for Summer 2023 internships if it took you 200 apps when you have 3 internships 😭
Life really is full of highs and lows. Wishing you the best of luck at the new job! You earned that shit for real.
haha I love the course descriptions. can't wait to psych analysis my interviewers !
Something about hearing others struggle is cathartic to my own failures. The mental game needs to be strong. Just remember the Ls are the road to the dub!
Nicholas I have strong 5 years in the industry and you have been a joy to watch. If you ever need help with branding/resume writing I'm here to help absolutely free
Enjoy the victory man, I'm one year since I started my first role. I love an underdog story.
That's rough bro. Glad you finally got through it :)
Ayo looking absolutely massive! Congrats!
Man I am happy for you, keep up the work!
You are the one who inspired me to embark on my first serious journey with software development. I'm not legal age yet so I can't really apply for a job, but I'm building some fun semi-portfolio projects rn in hope of landing it someday in the future
that's awesome, keep up the great work :)
bros inspiring
Laughing at the part on Operating Systems course. This is like a whole different world when coming from the software engineering courses. But in hindsight, this is really useful stuff to understand how to write better algorithms. And it could be a fundamental if you decide to go into drivers or writing your own OS one day.
Yay, I got my first ever internship a year ago at tech startup, and now I am SWE 2 :)
Keep it up.
Good job brother randomly got you on my feed
Enjoyed the sit down video, hoping to see more videos in the future.
Glad to have you back Nick...!
Great to see you back. Saw like 2 of your videos randomly a while back and your content is fire. Looking forward for what’s to come on your channel.
P.S hope you can land a NY engineering gig at some point. Lots of great places to work in the software space you won’t be disappointed.
thanks pedro, hopefully i'll be in nyc next year 🤞
So insecure, only posting whenever life is good haha. Could've posted that blog of when you failed, could've posted about your struggles of finding a job. Nope! Only post after you get the internship, love it. True role model, only want to be transparent whenever something goes your way again. Frying pan is infinitely better.
Yo frying pan is goated
YOOOO LET'S GO NIC THIS IS HUGEEEEE (not as huge as your biceps though)
Not as huge as your brain though :)
omg the nic himself replied to me i'm so honored :D
Oh mehm
Getting internship and entry level jobs are hard😪
first time viewer, love ur humour and applaud ur hard work, subscribing right away
thanks sarah, appreciate it :)
Congrats! Welcome to the madness!
Congrats 😊🎉
Wait your 3rd year? You’re a Juinor ?! I’m in my 4th year ( Senior) in Computer Science too.
Dang man, time flies wth.
i feel old
@@nicholast bro, you’re telling me.
Love you man, keep it up
Hey Nicholas, congrats! Looking big man!
nah it's just an optical illusion
Congratulations man!
Congrats, you got muscles now buddy.
same 3rd year but good shit! i still am applying. Its rough out here in Cali.
Happy you got through it!
Graduated with no internships because they got cancelled due to COVID. Now here I am 10 months after graduation with 0 work experience, at least 300 rejections, and still haven't been able to find a job. Feel at my lowest right now.
update?
congratulations!
data infrastructure team, you know infrastructure for the data 😂 u killed me
Great video! Saw you once last term on campus actually
Congratulations :DD
Nice to see you again
I knew the most stats I'll ever know right at the end of the stats101 exam and the least 10 minutes later.
dropping prod data is WILD boi💀
Congrats man.
holy shit that gym transformation is insane
bruh we missed you, post more
With all honesty, I spent 6 years studying CS. Half way through I realized I wasn’t passionate about programming but I was too deep in to quit. I was chasing the field purely because I thought it would bring me financial gain without any consideration as to whether or not it would make me happy.
Now I work doing administrative work so that I can earn enough to pursue my true passion which is baking.
I had to find ways to still implement my programming skills so that it wouldn’t have been a waste of time, so I solo develop Android apps on the side.
Really happy for you but I have watched other developers go through this and it makes me so upset that if smart devs like yourself can get rejected so many times then I can never find an internship/ job 😢
Congratulations, Nicholas 🎉😂. Wishing you the best in Waterloo.
Mark Yeung
so you are telling me im only about 80 rejections away so hyped
Nicholas bro, I got into Waterloo CS 2023. I was hoping that you may guide me during my high school to uni transition. I just wanna know about the electives available for me, the clubs and any other general info. See ya this fall!
Ah yes, loved the fact that we got CS341 grades after a month when they were due 🤣. Also same took 231 last term...5 fricking terms after 230 and didn't remember shit lmfao.
You worked on frontend tech how much time it took you to learn React? What is your process of learning
Valentine's code party, three words that should not go together 💀
Nick, I am currently a sophmore at a pretty highly ranked school for computer science and I have applied for 200+ internships. I have only gotten 4 first round interviews nothing more. You seem to be having success I can not find. I have done done some projects to make my resume more appealing, but this did not help. Could you make a video on what steps you took to get the internships you did land? Thanks.
damn, it's been a while , since Nicholas posted
almost 5 months oops
welcome back 😎
thanks 😎
Whats the chance of landing an internship in 2023 with no college degree in CS and just doing bootcamp and learning on your own? I cant imagine still being motivated after getting rejected so many times.
Damn bro, same here in EU, took me 6 months of job seeking to land my first internship.
Your story feels like a blue lock protagonist.
😱the goat
5:16 what! why would you do this??? what were the vals?? pls respond; VC and would love to case study this
LMAO I love ur reasoning for Health 100 💀
Now i dont need tech advice, i need gym advice
Would you be able today share what your full body work out routine was?
I didn't know eddy can code...
It is very hard to find a job since last year.
Holy shit I never knew how jacked you were 💪let's hit up PAC sometime. Congrats with the job BTW!
i'm tryna get like you bro
where can I apply the CV for apply the Software engineering job?
Why do you guys get an insane amount of internships? (Frying pan, you, Alex the song guy) surely it’d be easier to just apply for full time jobs instead
Waterloo makes us do 5-6 internships to graduate 👍
@@nicholast oh wow