Jason Voorhees
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Back in my second year of college. I was deep in my degenerate phase zero focus, zero discipline, just coasting through days with barely enough motivation to get out of bed but I started applying for internships mostly out of FOMO. My profile wasnโt strong a few average projects, ~1300 LeetCode rating, nothing special. I got rejected from most places which was fair.
Then I got an assignment through Wellfound from this founder of a seria a startup. His name Abhinav. It involved building a document parser with gRPC, real time SQL sync and user auth. things I had never even heard about let alone worked on before.
I spent weeks trying to figure it out, mostly through documentation, stackoverflow and other forums. This was back when AI tools were not useful for coding. Everything had to be done manually and it took me days to figure it out and debug things properly
I couldnโt complete everything by the deadline. I only passed about half the test cases, but submitted it anyway. To my surprise he still interviewed me and offered a paid internship.
During the internship. I made plenty of mistakes. Anyone else would have fired me but instead of reacting harshly he took time to explain things properly without shaming me, giving me chances after chances so I learned and helped me improve.
That experience taught me how to work on real systems and gave me that confidence that yes I could be finally be good at something.
Iโll forever be grateful to Abhinav for giving me that opportunity. Don't know what he saw in some half baked code and a lost under skilled kid but thank you for your being kind to me.
Then I got an assignment through Wellfound from this founder of a seria a startup. His name Abhinav. It involved building a document parser with gRPC, real time SQL sync and user auth. things I had never even heard about let alone worked on before.
I spent weeks trying to figure it out, mostly through documentation, stackoverflow and other forums. This was back when AI tools were not useful for coding. Everything had to be done manually and it took me days to figure it out and debug things properly
I couldnโt complete everything by the deadline. I only passed about half the test cases, but submitted it anyway. To my surprise he still interviewed me and offered a paid internship.
During the internship. I made plenty of mistakes. Anyone else would have fired me but instead of reacting harshly he took time to explain things properly without shaming me, giving me chances after chances so I learned and helped me improve.
That experience taught me how to work on real systems and gave me that confidence that yes I could be finally be good at something.
Iโll forever be grateful to Abhinav for giving me that opportunity. Don't know what he saw in some half baked code and a lost under skilled kid but thank you for your being kind to me.
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