r/csMajors

Hi everyone
I have a Robinhood SWE Intern 2027 coding interview coming up and would really appreciate advice from anyone who has gone through it recently.

What was the format like: one or multiple coding questions, difficulty level, follow-ups, debugging, or any practical/system-design discussion? Were the questions mostly standard LeetCode patterns, or more implementation-heavy / finance-style problems?

I’m currently practicing arrays, hash maps, heaps, intervals, sorting, graphs, and writing clean code while explaining my approach. If you have any prep tips or can share your experience, I’d be very grateful.

Thanks

Genuinely ~30% of the people I talked to had trouble in one of the following categories:

1.) Basic Hygiene (breath or BO smell)
2.) Basic Presentation (wearing dirty clothes/not trying to dress to impress at all)
3.) Basic Communication (eye contact, telling me basic info about themselves, being rude, acting obviously only interested in trying to get a leg up in the hiring process vs acting like a normal human)

I have to think these are the people on here complaining about being unable to find work.

EDIT: not trying to be mean and some of them may have had bad days. But genuinely I don’t know how some of these people expect to work on software at a corporation. You HAVE to be able to work with people in a team/group.

I graduated in 2025 and recently got laid off from my first SWE job in a mass layoff. I have about 9 months of full time experience now, and I feel like I’m in this weird in-between stage of my career where I’m not really a traditional new grad anymore, but I also don’t have the 2-3+ YOE that mid-level postings want.

For anyone who has been in a similar position, how did you find jobs that were actually meant for people with 0-1 YOE FT? Are there certain companies or job boards I should be looking at? Any general advice would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

So me and my best friend are both from California, but I currently live in like a neighborhood (commute to SF) and he lives right in the middle of SF with an international roommate.

The stories he tells of his roommate have me actually concerned. This dude went to CMU (wasnt CS, some adjacent degree…) and has over 300k in student loans, and is currently barely paying rent with 2 contracting gigs on a freelance website.

I recently met up with them at a restaurant this week, and the dude says he plans on getting a masters here as well??? WTF?

How does he plan on funding it, and with all the giant cutdowns on international hiring, how is he going to get a job here?

I’m saying this from a perspective filled with confusion.

Does anyone know people in these sort of situations and wth they end up doing? Do they just escape back to their home country with the degrees and never come back?

Did my interviews for the Google SWE intern (summer 2027, US). I wanted to share how they went and get some opinions.

The first round went really well. The interviewer was also super friendly and receptive to conversation. the initial problem took about 25 min for clarifying questions, talking through my approach and complexity, coding, and a dry run. The interviewer confirmed I had the optimal solution. With time left, I got two follow-ups: the complexity of a brute-force approach and an extension of the original problem, which I talked through with edge cases without coding it. For both, the interviewer accepted my explanations and said they were good.

The second round was weaker. The interviewer was more reserved and serious. My first approach had a flaw they caught with a counterexample, but I was able to quickly switch to a different linear-time approach that they approved before I coded it. During the dry run they expected a different result and I agreed in the moment, but I realized afterward we'd interpreted one of the rules differently, likely a misunderstanding on my part from clarifications. The follow-up (about 35 minutes in) was a harder generalization. I identified the right overall technique, which they agreed with, and wrote out my full algorithm and complexity before time ran out. They raised a concern I couldn't fully address in time, since my solution was correct under my interpretation of the rules but not theirs.

Do I still have a chance for team matching or a third round or am I cooked? And how much does a misunderstanding like that hurt if the reasoning itself was sound?

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I recently received a Software Engineering internship offer from Microsoft, but I’m more interested in eventually moving toward Product Management.

Before accepting the SWE offer, I applied to a Product Manager internship that recently opened at Microsoft. I also had a Microsoft employee submit an internal referral for the PM position.

My SWE offer has an acceptance deadline coming up, and I don’t want to risk losing it. At the same time, I’d really like to be considered for the PM internship.

Does anyone know how Microsoft handles this?

If I accept the SWE internship offer, can a recruiter for the PM internship still reach out and interview me? Or does accepting one internship offer automatically close/withdraw my other active Microsoft applications?

Has anyone personally been in a situation where they accepted a Microsoft internship offer and then interviewed for a different role (SWE → PM, PM → SWE, etc.) afterward?

I’m completely happy returning as a SWE if PM doesn’t work out. I mainly don’t want to accidentally shut down the PM opportunity by accepting my current offer.

Would especially appreciate answers from former Microsoft interns, return interns, or anyone familiar with University Recruiting.