LinkedIn Content Strategy & Writing Style
SWE Intern @ Vercel | Incoming @ Databricks | Prev @ AWS, HubSpot | CS + Comp Bio @ UofT
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Grace Liu positions herself as a high-achieving technical strategist and peer mentor who has mastered the art of the "non-linear" pivot from biology to elite software engineering. Her content strategy centers on radical transparency and "ungatekeeping" the tactical logistics of the internship grind, moving beyond generic advice to share specific GitHub repositories, hourly-updated job boards, and negotiation hacks. She is notable for her "training arc" philosophy, where she frames a gap year not as a break, but as a high-leverage period to stack prestige logos like Vercel, Databricks, and AWS. By intersecting career-pivot vulnerability with hyper-organized recruiting systems, she provides a roadmap for students to bridge the gap between academic theory and industry-leading engineering roles.
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My ๐ฆ๐๐บ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ stats. Exactly one year ago, I had ๐ฌ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐. Today, Iโm incredibly grateful to have received ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ from companiesโฆ
Iโm excited to share that Iโll be interning at Vercel this spring in San Francisco and Databricks this summer in Mountain View! ๐ Grateful for these opportunities and excited to power AI advancemenโฆ
Call me Amazon because I'm in my Prime ๐๐ค๐ฎโ๐จ Iโm excited to share that Iโve started my internship at Amazon Web Services (AWS)! Iโm joining the Amazon DynamoDB team on Global Secondary Indexes, wโฆ
Iโm ungatekeeping how I lined up ๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐. ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ญ: ๐จ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ-๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ๐. Fall and winter internships are often calledโฆ
Your ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ is the hardest to get. I landed big-tech internship offers ๐๐ถ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ prior software engineering internships. Hereโs what I did have to bridge the gap. 1๏ธโฃ Rโฆ
Women make up only ~20% of software engineers. Imagine how much we're missing out on when half the population is underrepresented in the rooms where technology is built. Diverse perspectives don't juโฆ
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Writing style breakdown
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Iโm ungatekeeping the exact ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ that helped me land ๐ฒ+ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ this cycle.
When I first switched from biology to CS, my resume was empty. I had no big-name companies and no prior SWE experience. I felt like I was shouting into a void every time I hit "apply."
๐ญ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ "๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐-๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐" ๐๐๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐
Instead of saying "built a website," say "built a full-stack application using React/Node.js that reduced data latency by ๐ฎ๐ฌ%." Numbers provide the signal recruiters are looking for.
๐ฎ. ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐ฑ๐ท๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ
If you don't have an internship, use research or hackathons.
Treat research like a job
List specific technologies used
Mention if you presented to a lab or professor
๐ฏ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฐ-๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฅ๐๐น๐ฒ
Apply to roles within 24 hours of them being posted. The earlier you are, the higher the chance a human actually sees your resume before the headcount fills up.
It took me a long time to realize that recruiting is a game of ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐, not just skills. Once I changed my approach, everything shifted.
I want to help as many of you as possible break in this year.
๐ If you want my ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐๐บ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฒ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ "๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐บ๐ฒ" and Iโll send it over!
โป๏ธ Repost this to help someone else who is struggling with their search.
#internship #swe #tech #career
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