Computer Engineering related resources for school, co-op, internships, etc. tailored for University of Alberta students.
- General
- School
- Internships
- Interviews
- Resumes
- Cool Reads
- Hackathons
- Programming
- Portfolio
- Career Branding & Networking
- Student Perks
- Entrepreneurship
- Community
Starting your career in tech can be daunting but rewarding. The resources in the Resource Vault are specifically designed to help you discover, prepare for, and successfully launch your career. A few of the things you will find in the Resource Vault include:
- Tips and strategies to help you plan your career and conduct an effective job search
- Discipline-specific information for career exploration — including sample job titles and companies
- A list of over 150 resources/services to help you in your career planning, networking, and job search, or with your entrepreneurial journey
- Resources to help you improve your resume
- Advice and a template for writing an effective cover letter
- Best practices and sample questions to help you prepare for upcoming interviews
- Suggestions to help you build a network and develop your career brand
- Computer Engineering Specific Resources
- CompE Club Welcome to CompE Slides
- General CS/SWE Resources
- CS vs SWE / CompE c/o uWaterloo students
- uWaterloo Resources
- Pre-reqs for Classes
- Schedule Assistant
- Coursera
- UAlberta students get free access to UAlberta Coursera content
- CMPUT 404
- Web Applications
- CMPUT 466
- Machine Learning
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Techintern.io | Platform that matches students with startups. NOTE: There is a preference for students that have worked in FAANG-esque companies (based on conversations with the founder) |
| Example Repo | Search [Fall / Summer / Winter] [Target Year] software engineering internship github in google and there will usually be a github repo that shares companies that are actively recruiting for the target season. For instance, if you want an internship for Winter 2022, search Winter 2022 software engineering internship github. |
| Canvas | Job board |
| Y Combinator | Startups |
| startups.jobs | Startups |
| intern.plus | UWaterloo student made company review site to gain insight on big companies |
| Levels.fyi | Salaries |
| simplify.jobs | Platform with great job board + chrome extension using AI copilot to auto-fill your job applications |
- Leetcode
- Interview Cheat Sheet
- Coding Interview University
- Interview Cake
- Cracking the Coding Interview
- Algo-en
- Intro to Algo's and Data Structures
- Good for the eager 2nd years and for 3rd+ years needing a refresher
- 14 Technical Interview Techniques
- 10 DP Problems
- Algorithms for Interviews: Monotonic Stack
- Look at this authors other posts for more resources here
- Preparing for Programming interview with Python
- Practice Problems For Hardware Engineers
- Technical Interview Rubric
- Data Structures and Algorithms - JS Implementations
- Practice Interviews
- Resume Maker
- Sample Resumes c/o uWaterloo students
- SWE Resume Tips c/o uWaterloo students
- ATS Parser
- Resume Builder
- Hacker News
- Dev.to
- Get that Google Job
- Crafting Interpretters
- Developer Roadmap
- Network Programming
- Operating Systems
- List of free programming books
- HackEd
- HackEd Beta
- NatHacks
- DevEdmonton hackathons e.g. DevelopEd
- Hack the North
- Git Tutorial
- Highly recommended for 2nd years to learn git / github as soon as possible
- React Guide
- Note: article written in 2020, may be outdated at the time of reading
- Intro to React Workshop
- Web-Dev-For-Beginners
resources coming soon!
resources coming soon!
- ICE Engineering Incubator
- Entrepreneurial Co-op
- Edmonton Unlimited
- Platform Calgary
- Alberta Catalyzer
- CDL-Rockies
- Alberta Accelerator by 500
- imYEG
- Technology Alberta - Community, Newsletter, Funding for first job in tech, etc.
- Dev Edmonton Society (See their Events page for more possible Community - https://devedmonton.com/#community-events)
- Amii
resources/links coming soon!