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#7: Jamie Rollison: From Linguistics to Android Dev, Internships at Intuit & Stripe, and College Life @ UIUC

23 Oct 2024

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In this episode, we sit down with Jamie Rollison, a senior at UIUC studying Computer Science, to discuss her unique journey from linguistics to Android development and how she landed internships at Intuit (fun story here!) and Stripe. Jamie shares insights on following her passions, building web and mobile apps at Hack4Impact, balancing college life, the cheating/grind culture, and navigating the competitive tech landscape. Whether you're a CS student, recent grad, or tech enthusiast, this episode has valuable takeaways about landing your first internships in tech! Ellie is today's host. ✨ Recorded IRL in our Dumbo office. And congrats on the returning offer, Jamie! See you in NYC next August. Want to see more Boba Talk? Follow us ⁠⁠@boba_talk⁠ on Twitter! If you like this episode, please leave a review! Show Notes: (0:00) Intro + Bobas (1:10) Building Apps at Hack4Impact (5:08) The 1st internship at Intuit (Mountain View) (7:43) The 2nd internship at Stripe (Seattle) (12:21) Recruitment Season: Google, Palantir, trading cos (15:57) Online Assessment (OA) (18:13) College grind at UIUC (20:11) Follow your passion in CS (22:20) Cheating culture & assignments on GitHub (28:24) Ellie's recap (30:05) Personal projects & hackathons (31:37) Outro (we are SO back!) Episode links: 🧡 ⁠⁠UIUC 🌍 Hack4Impact 📘 Intuit 🏦 Stripe Back 2 School Bash: ⁠YouTube Vlog Luma Keep up with Jamie: Instagram: ⁠@jamie.rollison LinkedIn: ⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/jamierollison Boba Talk: Host: Ellie Popoca Videographer: Naomi Lee Producer: Jay Yow Happy coding!

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