u/-_sometimes

I work part time in a warehouse on the weekends, and I'm really tired of being treated like a robot, so I applied to several SWE roles through LinkedIn.

I'd rather work full time in the industry I'm passionate about then continue losing my weekends to mind-numbing boredom.

Now I have an interview invitation from a co-founder, but I don't know if they realize I'm a first year? I've built two production-grade mobile apps for android, one with 100 MAU, 2k downloads, an ETL pipeline for data processing, experience with react native frontend, fastapi python backend, but I have basically no leetcode experience, in fact I'm only just doing the DSA module right now at my uni.

This is my CV I used to apply for the role. I know my depth of skill is not up to par, and I know that if I'm grilled that will quickly show. What should I do \(”˚☐˚)/

My plan had been to spend this summer solidifying my fundamentals with AI from first principles implementation for my projects, neetcode, system design and go through CS:APP. Is it better to wait till the end of the summer to actually consider roles seriously, when I have this experience?

https://preview.redd.it/yzzpgu64731h1.png?width=583&format=png&auto=webp&s=c88a08bdb515b2559fb2390294a20c1ad35117a1

You search for any product and it shows you the price across all the major UK supermarkets side by side — Aldi, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Iceland, Ocado, Co-op and M&S. Clubcard and Nectar prices are included. It also normalises by unit (price per 100g etc.) so comparison actually make sense.

Vector search helps with search relevance, along with a custom categorisation pipeline which means you actually get relevant results based on your search term, which I think even grocery website struggle with. Still needs some work and I think direct user flagging will help best with that.

Things I'm working on next (over the summer break):

- Basket mode - add your weekly shop and it'll tell you which store or combination of stores is cheapest overall. It sort of works right now but needs a lot of refinement so it's not public

- Crowdsourced prices so smaller and local shops get covered too (Lidl)

- Barcode scanning for instance price comparison in store or at home

- Better local store filtering based on what's actually near you

Would genuinely love feedback. Currently only on the playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wistfulcreations.GroceryCompare&hl=en_GB

I have an interview for a full-time SWE role as a first year CS student. I'm scared to even accept the interview