This recruiting season is in full swing, so here is the mindset to be successful. Don’t wait to be perfect, don’t try to polish everything single flaw you see in the mirror. Because there will always be some. Instead start interviewing with confidence. We are never fully learn math. We are never fully prepared to leave home for college. We are never fully prepared for our first jobs. Why then is the goal to be fully prepared for every interview? There’s no need to fix every weakness before...

Updated September 2026. Bookmark this page. We update it as programs open and close. Most freshmen think internships start junior year. They don't. Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, Citadel, Jane Street, LinkedIn and dozens of other companies run programs built for first and second-year students. Many of them open in September and October. Some close in 2 weeks. I spent years as an engineer at Amazon. Now I teach intro CS at Morgan State and support CodePath workshops there. And I see the same...

I joined a Swift team at Amazon with 0 experience in Swift. My last role was Prime Video, on the team that owned playback. Before that I had never shipped a line of Swift. I wasn't even an Apple fan. I was team Android all the way. ChatGPT was new then. And we weren't allowed to use it. The AI wars were starting and the rules were strict. So I learned the hard way. Here is what was on the list: SwiftUI and UIKit — the 2 UI frameworks every Apple app is built on, and Apple's own tutorial track...