Google Intern Experiences, CourseHero obtains Unicorn status and Coronavirus
CoStart is a newsletter bringing to you tech news and trends, PM & SWE resources, jobs, and blogs to help you break into the tech industry.
Blog Post 📕
The Missing Semester of your CS Education
Learn advanced topics in computer science, from operating systems to machine learning, but most importantly - proficiency with tools. The Missing Semester of your CS Education is a course at MIT available online that is meant to teach skills that are often left out in the traditional CS curriculum. Lectures and notes are available here.
Tech News📈
WhatsApp has managed to up its metrics from 1.5 Billion two years ago to 2 billion this year which is a massive number for a messaging app of its scale.
Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Club
Course Hero, an online learning platform probably familiar to every college student ever, just raised $10 million in funding New View Capital. Course Hero is now at a $1.1 billion valuation.
Apple won’t meet revenue numbers as China’s return to work is slowing down due to the damage caused by coronavirus. Apple’s stock price falling may preempt other stocks from falling that investors identify as risky.
Larry Tesler, the engineer responsible for cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74
Larry Tesler worked at Apple as Chief Scientist and was the first to popularize the cut and copy-and-paste operations withThe Macintosh and Lisa. He later worked as a UX consultant for many companies, including Amazon and 23andme. Check out his CV here.
Podcast 🎙
Laura Wilson, Rebecca Parker and Samantha Sample talk about how they discovered computer science in college, what they like about the major, their struggles and how they spent their summer as software engineering interns at Google. Click the button below hear their stories:
Resources ✨
Pramp - Live Interview Practice with Peers
Pramp is a FREE, online platform for practicing technical interviews - anywhere from Data Structures, PM, Data Science, System Design, to even Behavioral interview types. Once you request an interview type, Pramp automatically matches you with other engineers based on your availability, practice needs, and programming language preferences. You’ll have the opportunity to practice interviews live (1-on-1 via video chat) and get feedback.
Jobs 💸
In an industry with many hustlers who know how to grab an opportunity even before it comes to them, cold calling plays a huge role in being able to find jobs and investors. This article does a great job of going into how to go about reaching sending those cold emails and tracking progress, check it out below:
Cold-calling works: how to get a job without a single online application by Michelle Lu.
Product Management 💥
Interested in studying how certain products work from a systems design perspective, check out Gaurav Sen’s Youtube tutorials. Products discussed include Netflix, Whatsapp, Instagram, and Tinder. Studying system design as an aspiring PM will help you gain perspective on how design interacts with engineering as a business scales.
Tech talks 💻
Have you ever wondered how Email works?
Let’s start with understanding Client-server architecture - the architecture of a computer network in which many clients (remote processors) request and receive service from a centralized server (host computer).
Image Credit: Wikipedia
Online applications such as Email follow this architecture, where the main components of an e-mail system that facilitate sending and receiving of e-mails on the Internet are:
An e-mail client
An e-mail server (SMTP server)
POP and IMAP servers.
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