How I Landed my Software Engineering Internship in Aerospace
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- s o c i a l s ☕
----------------------------------------
Discord: / discord
Instagram: / chicken_marsella
Twitch: / marselluh
Twitter: / marselluhbot
business inquiries: michael@rainysun.day
s u p p o r t 👏
----------------------------------------
BuyMeACoffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/marselluh
programmer merch: nullref.co/
Join the club: rainysun.day/
my book list (affiliate): www.amazon.com/shop/marselluh...
g e a r (affiliates) 🖥️
----------------------------------------
Keyboard: amzn.to/3PQgQOB
Mouse: amzn.to/3AICXT5
Monitors: amzn.to/3PJZkvI
Chair: amzn.to/3AJ9oAQ
Desk: amzn.to/3pFJ8AX
Mic: amzn.to/3wq8Xc1
Camera: amzn.to/3QNZKT5
gear store: www.amazon.com/shop/marselluh...
d e s c r i p t i o n 🔥
----------------------------------------
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - How I got a software engineering internship
01:33 - Career fair
03:23 - First software engineering internship interview (Northrop Grumman)
04:14 - Second software engineering interview (Western Digital)
06:19 - Offers?
07:00 - Work as a software engineering intern
08:27 - Helpful advice
10:10 - Outro
Since it is around the time computer science students are looking for internships, I though it would be helpful to explain how I got a software engineering internship in aerospace going into my senior year at university.
Getting internships (and specifically software engineering internships) is notoriously difficult and competitive. Yet, internships are a massive resume booster, and extremely valuable when looking for full time software engineering positions at FAANG and Big N tech companies.
It always felt like I kept seeing all these people scoring these massive software engineering internships at Big N companies like Google and Microsoft, so I was starting to sweat. Fortunately, my university UCSD was hosting a winter career fair. Fortunately (again), many of the companies at this career fair were looking for software engineering interns or software development interns, so it was really a field day for computer science students.
Two companies seemed the most interested in my past software development experience; Western Digital and Northrop Grumman. I eventually moved onto the internship interview questions (after some routine emails and phone calls). I was extremely nervous and to prepare I had mostly been reading cracking the coding interview and doing a bunch of leetcode questions. The software engineering internship interview for Northrop Grumman was extremely lax (which was very comforting). Western Digital's software engineering internship interview did feature two 1-hour long technical interviews, combined with 2 1-hour long behavioral interviews.
Eventually I got the call that I would receive the offer to be a software engineering intern for Northrop Grumman for that upcoming summer (which made me ecstatic). But unfortunately, I found out that I did not receive the software engineering internship offer for Western Digital.
In terms of actual internship experience, working at Northrop Grumman was extremely valuable. I was assigned typical software engineering intern work, but was also tasked with work that may not be typical of a software engineer. Some work was definitely more program management oriented, which I thought was super valuable!
In the age of social media, it is easy to get down on yourself if you see all these Big N and FAANG internship posts on places like LinkedIn and cscareerquestions. Just remember, its all about framing and that is unlikely an accurate representation of the general internship market. I think most modern companies can use a software engineering intern, so sometimes you may just need to think slightly out of the box!
Comment down below where you are looking at getting a software engineering internship!
c r e d i t s 🎵
----------------------------------------
Field Of Fireflies by Purrple Cat | purrplecat.com
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Shout out to TechnoAXE for the new royalty free outro music, you can find it here: • Synthwave F - Royalty ...
and his channel: / @teknoaxe
Movie clips throughout are of The Internship (2013).
#softwareengineering
#internship
#northropgrumman
d i s c l a i m e r
----------------------------------------
I do not claim to own any or all of the pictures/footage that may be shown in this video.
All of my opinions are entirely my own and do not represent any company I work for or am affiliated with.
Any financial topics discussed are not financial advice.
Got an interview with NG. Super excited to see where it goes. Happy to hear no white board leetcode format for an internship . Cool video
Good luck I just applied recently too hopefully I hear back!
@Kenny Chhoeun likewise m8, hope you get an email back for an interview.
great video Michael! Gives some good insight on the oh so mysterious process of applying for internships and interviewing... Your editing is also on point this video :P
Thanks my man!
Hey Michael you are such an inspiration! Your hard work and tenacity are definitely something to be sought after!!
Aw thanks so much!
Finally the video I've been searching for.
Glad to hear it!
Just got my Northrop Grumman offer today!
Congrats!
This is interesting! I never considered applying for software dev jobs at the defense and/or aerospace companies...hmm..
Ya so many companies need software devs that you might not even think about!
Just got an offer from them! Can’t wait
Congrats man! That's awesome!
Thanks for the tips man. Just as a question from my situation as an incoming UCSD freshman, what would be your best advice for getting an internship during the school year. I'm planning on doing a fifth year for structural engineering so that I don't get overwhelmed with work as well as actually get the chance to experience the workforce as many of my summers will be occupied with summer events for NROTC, which would interfere with specific summer internship opportunities
Ya for sure! I know a ton of places are looking for interns during the school year but they are usually not as advertised. From my experience usually internships over the summer will ask if you want to continue it during the school year. So if one summer you were able to get an internship you could potentially continue it during the school year. Alternatively, I’d probably just ask whatever company you’re interested in if they do internships during the school year instead of during the summer! I think it may be more difficult for large companies (like I don’t think Microsoft offers internships during the whole year), but smaller companies may be a better bet!
@@ByteOfMichael neat! I'll let you know how it goes in the future man. Keep up the good videos m8!
How is it like being a software engineer in the aerospace industry? What does a workday usually consist of. Thanks for the video.
From my experience at least, I don't think there would be too much of a difference day-to-day compared to another type of company. You'll pretty much be coding for whatever product you are working on, in addition to any meetings you may have! Though depending on what you are working on, you might be working in labs more often and conducting simulations!
Hi Michael, Im an Aerospace Engineer student, I'm very interested to know in what areas or programs software engineers work; I've been at internships and I know they are needed, but in my areas where I've been there's no one of them, just mechanicals or materials focus, Hope you can open my mind
Specifically for Aerospace, from my knowledge, most software engineers will work on programs that directly involve software interactions. So potentially user interfaces, simulation and measurement environments, database management, internal software tooling and many others! For example, during my internship I primarily worked on operator interfaces and simulations!
Hi I'm Ariful Islam leeton im software engineer and Co Pilot Microsoft 365
It's really odd, NP tends to hire from community colleges/without prestige. I wonder why
Cause they don't pay as much as Apple/Google etc
Just curious but were you able to get a return offer from NG?
Yep!
@@ByteOfMichael Is there any specific reason why you didn't go back? I'm planning on applying to NG's SWE internship program this year so I'm just curious