Coding Projects That Got Me Interviews At Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Palantir, and More

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These are the software engineer side projects that I worked on as a computer science student that helped me land software engineer interviews at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Palantir, and many other companies.

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The best way to learn computer science and learning how to code is by working on a project because it teaches you how to build websites and other important applications.

My very first side project as a computer science student was redoing a startup’s landing page. I did this beginner computer science side project after my first quarter of learning how to program in college, and I self-taught myself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to do this website redesign as my side project as a computer science (CS) student. This software engineer project was important because it was the first time that I self-taught myself a new programming language.

The second side project I coded as a computer science student was a project called AutoCal, a smarter calendar application. I built this during a hackathon with a few of my friends, and I would consider it a very beginner friendly full-stack web application that I built. It definitely did not work perfectly, but that isn’t the point for most software engineer side projects, and especially not for beginner software engineer side projects. The point of a side project is not to write production grade code, but rather to show that you have initiative and technical skills to build something.

The third side project that I worked on was a better class scheduling website for my school called SCHDLR. This is a side project for developers, particularly a side project for web developers as this was a full-stack, end-to-end web-application that I built by myself. I did this during a self-imposed hackathon where I basically spent an entire weekend dedicated to building this project out.

The fourth side project that I worked on was something called Left On Read, an iMessage text analyzer. You can find the link to the project at leftonread.me. The project is also open-source on github at https://github.com/Left-on-Read/lefto.... This was a web developer side project that I worked on with a team of 5 of my friends, and this was probably one of the more in-depth and technically complicated coding projects that I worked on. Users uploaded their iMessage database file and we parsed through it all and returned metrics about how they texted their friends — they’re most frequently message friends, most frequently used words, most frequently used emojis, etc. This is a great side project for your resume as it really showed a lot of technical complexity to build out this platform.

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