☀️ Build Dream Side Projects, Virtual Communities, Intern Season is here
Summer with Costart building side projects to beat quarantine boredom and intern season virtual events
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Hi Costarters,
Summer is officially here and it is the time for summer projects, intern season, and longer days.
Hopefully, everyone is coping well with quarantine and is safe. Many of you are finishing finals week in school or are working those long work hours at your new wfh job reality. The last few weeks were rough for tech after the many layoffs that happened in major companies such as Lyft, Airbnb, and Uber, and with that many new grad and intern offers were rescinded. It was a sad few weeks and our heart is with every one of you who had to leave their jobs or had your offers rescinded.
We also wanted to thank you for being a part of our community, especially during times like this. If you know anyone else who would benefit from this community and these resources please share this community with them!
Summer with Costart ☀️
BUILD YOUR DREAM SIDE PROJECT WITH COSTART
Ideally, tech summers would be filled with events sponsored by big companies like intern happy hours, and a lot of exciting team offsites. However, since this year is different, we at Costart wanted to help you guys get through this quarantine summer by making it more exciting.
We are excited to launch SUMMER WITH COSTART to help you work on your dream side projects. You will be working in small groups throughout the summer with other passionate Costarters in a virtual community. There will also be virtual events, hangouts, and work sessions for you to network with each other and tech industry leaders. Fill this out if you’re interested!
Make sure to join our Slack to be part of our virtual community ad stay updated on our events and the program.
Virtual Event 🎥
If you missed our last event, breaking into software engineering and product management, here is a recorded version. There will be more such events throughout this summer.
Blog Post 📕
My college went remote. How do I get anything done now?
A lot of you guys are in school during this time of the year and getting things done while sitting at home the whole day without much interaction with teachers and TA’s can be hard. We wanted to share this article by Masha L. Read here.
Costart Podcast Radio🎙
This week we spoke to Varsha Nagele, an up and rising Digital Marketer evolving brands with innovative marketing campaigns while building creative tech-driven digital dialogues. She has worked across marketing functions for various tech giants like KPMG, ThoughtWorks, and Google. She shares her aspirations of creating her own future digital marketing agency and an Iron Man-like future for the world.
Resources ✨
Intern.Community is back
A group of designers, developers, product managers, data engineers, digital marketers—interns. They nourish a Slack community and usually organize events, meetups, and Q&As for interns but this time, it’s different, rather than planning events to go to, students are fumbling to even secure an internship. Here is the link to join.
Data for COVID Data Science Projects
Are you bored in the house, in the house bored? Consider creating some data science projects that could potentially help understand the COVID-19 situation better-using datasets that can be found here.
Other Resources
Bored at home and want to find virtual events and raves? Quanrantine.io can help you get through this loneliness epidemic. Here is the link, check it out.
Udacity is offering free courses and discounts during this time. Here is the link to redeem an offer for their courses.
Propgate is also offering free courses and a free coding Bootcamp. Here is the link to that.
Jobs 💸
💪The Ultimate COVID Job Resource Stack
Due to Covid-19, unfortunately, many layoffs occurred last week at companies such as Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and it was really sad to see many who had to leave their positions and places that they loved to work at :(
To help you guys out we wanted to share this resource that has been compiled to help those still looking for a job/internship. Find it here.
TALENTBOARD.IO
Internship Cancelled or Job Offer Rescinded Due to COVID-19? Talentboard.io is helping students. Add your name to the student talent board and they get your profile DIRECTLY in front of our community of recruiters. Your profile will remain on the board for 60 days. Here is the link. Good luck!
Companies and hiring freezes
Here is a list of companies that have frozen their hiring. This can help some of you avoid applying to these places and instead spend time reaching out and applying to places that are still accepting applications.
Startups and Fundraising 🎈
Fundraise From Home
Working on something and want to pitch to investors from your home in pajamas? The Weekend Fund has made it possible to pitch from anywhere through a 30-second video. Here is the link.
Dinnercombinator
Sign up to be matched to have dinner with an investor! Here is the link to sign-up.
Tech talks 💻
Let’s be real, starting as a software engineer as a new grad can be daunting. You just graduated from doing projects for classes to being handed database management scripts on dockerized containers at your new job. Even the jump from a software engineering intern to a full-time engineer can feel really daunting. The tips and tricks mentioned in this article can help you feel more confident in your first week as a new grad full-time software engineer.
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