Interview Prep
System Design
- ByteByteGo— Visual system design guides by Alex Xu
- System Design School Primer— Structured primer on system design concepts with examples
AI / ML
- 3Blue1Brown ML— Visual math intuitions for neural networks
YouTube
- Andrej Karpathy— Neural networks explained from scratch
- ALifeEngineered— Engineer career advice
- Dwarkesh Patel— AI podcast and deep-dive interviews
- Ryan Peterman— SWE career stories
- Missing Semester (MIT)— Practical dev tools: shell, git, vim, debugging
AI Safety
- BlueDot Impact— AI safety courses and community for aspiring researchers
- MATS— ML Alignment Theory Scholars fellowship
- Anthropic Fellows— Anthropic's AI safety research fellowship
- Astra Fellowship— Constellation's fellowship for AI safety research
Career
- CodePath— Free coding courses and career support for students
- 80,000 Hours— Research-driven guide to high-impact careers
- Good First Issue— Find beginner-friendly GitHub issues across popular projects
Resume
- Jobscan— Check if your resume is ATS-friendly
- Resumes.fyi— Collection of resumes from people who claim they got interviews at big-name companies
- Harvard College Engineering Resume Example— Harvard’s engineering resume template/example
- Jake’s Resume Template— Clean, proven resume template used by many candidates
Mass Application
- Job Application Tracker (Google Sheets)— Spreadsheet template to track job applications
- Simplify— Autofill job applications, track statuses, and discover roles
Fellowships & Programs
- MLH Fellowship— Open source fellowship for aspiring technologists
- Headstart Fellowship— Fellowship connecting students with startups
- Neo Scholars— Community and funding for ambitious builders
Startup Fellowships
- Y Combinator— Top startup accelerator and funding program
- Z Fellows— Fellowship for young founders
- Pear Fellowship— Dorm room fund fellowship for student founders
- Kleiner Perkins Fellows— Design and engineering fellowship at top startups
Job & Internship Search
- Summer 2026 Internships— Community-maintained list of summer 2026 tech internships
- New Grad Positions— Community-maintained list of new grad roles
- LinkedIn— Professional networking and job board
- Glassdoor— Job listings, salary data, and company reviews
- Levels.fyi— Tech salary data and compensation comparisons
- Simplify— One-click job applications and autofill for tech roles
Tools to Master
- Claude Code— Anthropic's CLI for agentic coding with Claude
- Cursor— AI-powered code editor
- Model Context Protocol— Open protocol for connecting AI to tools and data
Books
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces— Free online OS textbook, excellent for CS fundamentals
- Deep Learning (Goodfellow)— The definitive deep learning textbook, free online
- Build (Tony Fadell)— Advice on building products and teams from the iPod creator
Hackathons
- Stanford TreeHacks— Stanford's premier annual hackathon
- HackHarvard— Harvard's annual hackathon
- HackMIT— MIT's annual hackathon
Events & Networking
- Grace Hopper Celebration— World's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists
- Rewriting the Code— Community and programs supporting college and early-career women in tech
- AfroTech Conference— Conference and community celebrating Black technologists, startups, and culture
Tech Student Orgs. on Campus
- Google Developer Groups on Campus | College of Wooster— Student-led Google Developer Group chapter at Wooster
- Woo NSBE Chapter— National Society of Black Engineers chapter at Wooster