I TOOK MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS SERIOUSLY

Hello! Welcome to my first blog. After my recent post on LinkedIn, I have received thousands of messages from people asking me for help or tips regarding cracking coding interviews, polishing their resume, getting internships and jobs from the big tech giants, and moving to the United States for higher education. Since I cannot personally answer every single person, I have decided to start blogging instead :).

Here are a few things about me:

• I recently got internship offers from Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple on my first try, and I would love to share my coding strategies in another post :)

• I am doing a bachelor’s in computer science with a minor in technology entrepreneurship and cyber security, at the University of Maryland, USA. I’m currently in my third year.

• I was born and raised in India and managed to top the Gujarat State Board in my 12th grade. Like every Indian, I dreamt of doing my bachelor’s either from an IIT, or MIT or Stanford. Though I managed to crack JEE Advanced, I couldn’t get my desired branch and I can positively confirm I was rejected by all three, which made me feel like a total failure :)

• I joined Nirma University in Ahmedabad for a bachelor’s in CS, and after finishing 1 year in Nirma, I shifted to the US and continued my bachelor’s here. NO, I’m not on a student exchange program, and YES it is possible to transfer amongst colleges, this is something a lot of people always ask me about. I’ll post another article on this if you guys want me to.

• I knew EXACTLY what I wanted for a long time, and with my eyes on the prize, I worked consistently for 1 year and managed to get these internships. One year is all it takes, you JUST have to be consistent.

I’m planning on writing about curating your resume, polishing your coding skills, getting offers from your dream companies, transferring to the USA for higher education, dealing with failure, competitive coding, participating in hackathons and conferences, getting experience and anything that you guys would like to know.

I want to help as many people as I can, because I know what it feels like to be rejected by hundreds of companies, I was that person a year ago :)Let me know in the comments if you would like me to write about anything specific, or contact me on Instagram @anjali.gama, I am very active there :) You can also send a dm on my LinkedIn. Cheers!