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My younger brother is in his second year of comp sci. I was wondering if has enough skills to be considered. If not, what do you guys recommend for him to work on?

This is a copy of his CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1shLwzU4egTm-DSt9eBRfhun87_r...

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Your brother should remove 12 Rules For Life from the list of books read. It cannot possibly help and will plausibly hurt with HR. Don’t signal political views or cultural affiliation unless you’re going to signal you’re of the left.

He could easily get an internship at Facebook (non-YC) or maybe Airbnb (YC). He definitely has enough skills to get a good internship.

I would say he has enough skills to get an interview at those companies. Solving coding interview questions is a skill that has very loose correlation with any side project/real work experience IMO.

It's hard to get the attention of the recruiters at those companies in my experience.

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