After having worked for a year at Twitter, I decided to start interviewing again. This time around I interviewed with multiple startups and large companies. I joined Amazon London after my interviewing spree and in this blog post, I will be sharing my interview experience and some Amazon-specific hiring tips. Application …

Twitter has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. My first job out of university was at Twitter, and I left just before the turmoil started. I usually blog about major career changes/experiences, and as 2022 is coming to an end, I was reflecting on this year…

My key takeaways from college life. — I graduate college in 30 days, and I can not believe that 5 years have gone by. My college has given me a lot of things apart from my degree including but not limited to lifelong friends, a career I love and life experiences. …

Interview experience for new grad software engineer role at Twitter, India — Hello World, I’m Atibhi Agrawal, I’ll be graduating with an Integrated Master’s in Engineering from IIIT-Bangalore in July 2021. After that, I will be joining Twitter India as a software engineer. I will be based in Bangalore. In this blog post, I am going to tell you about the application…

Making a resume, hunting for opportunities and making your application stand out — Namaste Folks 🙏 I’m Atibhi, a final semester student from India. I’ve done 7 internships in 5 years. A few months ago, I gave a talk on SWE internships. This blog post is based on my talk. I share whatever I’ve learnt over the past few years and a few…

Templates that I can’t live without. — According to Wikipedia, Notion is an application that provides components such as notes, databases, kanban boards, wikis, calendars and reminders. Users can connect these components to create their own systems for knowledge management, note-taking, data management, project management, among others. My friend introduced me to Notion a couple of years…

My preparation strategy for system design interviews with Silicon Valley companies — In software engineering, system design defines the components, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to meet specified requirements. Most companies do not ask system design to freshers. However, when I was interviewing for a Full-Time Software Engineer role, a few companies had system design interview rounds.

Acknowledging and Dealing With It — During my college years, I was driven, hard-working and ambitious. If you looked at my LinkedIn you would think I had it all — great internships, open source contributions, volunteer work etc. However, I was never truly happy, I always felt that I did not deserve any of the good…

Why do people take selfies and post them on social media ? How does it enable curation of self? How do selfies affect family life and mental health? How does it relate to the concept of Digital Embodiment ? — This article was originally written for the Technology And Society Course at IIIT-B under Professor Bidisha. The recent trend of promoting oneself through the use of online social networking sites has contributed to the emergence of a new and apparently self-presenting and self-promoting phenomenon: posting “selfies” to various sites, such…