Waterloo Women in Computer Science
MC 3013 Waterloo, ON, Canada

Have an important interview coming up? Want the inside scoop on how companies recruit? Want informal feedback on how you interview? Attend Friday’s WiCS Technical Interview Prep session with Oracle/Netsuite, Facebook, and Splunk, including presentations on interview processes (from the viewpoint of companies), interview tips, and practice with mock interviews!

hEDGE 2021 Applications Now Open! hEDGE Financial Services Conference 2021 is an exclusive 2-day recruitment event for University of Waterloo students with a passion for financial services. Look forward to exclusive workshops, mock interviews, guest speakers and networking. Take advantage of this opportunity to network with an amazing line-up of financial services sponsors and discover co-op and full-time job opportunities. Stay tuned on our Facebook and Instagram pages for m...ore information on our conference sponsors and event details! Please see below for the conference and application details. Date: Thursday, April 29th and Friday, April 30th 2021 Location: Virtual Applications close on Sunday, February 21st at 11:59 PM ET. Apply by January 31st to get early bird pricing! Please visit our website to apply: https://www.hedgeconference.ca/apply-2021 Acceptances will be sent out on a rolling basis.

Each term we host weekly office hours for female-identifying undergraduate students to study, hang out, and chat with the members of the WiCS executive committee and peers about academics, student-life, career advice and more. Starting tomorrow, you can visit us at http://bit.ly/wicsofficehours

With the help of our friends at Terminal, we have put together a panel of exceptional women to share their stories of how they became leaders. This event was designed specifically with students (like you) in mind! The event will take place on January 28th from 7 8pm EST. Joining us will beHonourable Bardish Chagger, Canada’s Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth,Andrea Curry, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Axonify, andNeha Khera, investor and Part...ner at 2048 Ventures. And yours truly will be moderating! There will be a Q&A period at the end. This will be a fantastic opportunity to hear from three women who have worked hard and taken unique paths to get to where they are! The leadership and teamwork skills you learn in school and programs like Technovation Girls can really help you go the distance. Register today (put student or your school’s name where it asks for company), link in bio See more

Are you getting ready for your co-op interviews? Come to our event to learn from upper-year students with experience in software engineering and product management! Join us for tips to ace your behavioural, SWE, and PM interviews! We’ll also be answering your most FAQ! ... A Zoom link for the event will be sent to you by e-mail the day before the panel. Don’t miss out! See you there! Register and get the chance to WIN A GIFT CARD: http://bit.ly/wicsinterviews101

Just a quick reminder that Alt-Tab is tomorrow! Join us on Zoom tomorrow evening from 5-7pm EST to hear talks from UW students, old and new Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85836317055

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Come out to our de-stress game night! Be entered into win a free Windows PC version of Among Us!

Come join the UW Computer Science Club (CSC) and Women in Computer Science (WiCS) on Thursday, November 19th from 5-7PM EST for Alt-Tab! Alt-Tab is a lightning tech talk series presented by students and alumni. This term’s Alt-Tab event will comprise of 4 different speakers who will be talking about topics including Ethereum NFT gaming, proof assistants and vanity Tor URLS. There will also be a raffle to win $20 gift cards! This event will be hosted on Zoom, link will be ...shared on our FB event page (link in bio!) More details to come! Keep your eyes peeled

Meet our fourth and final speaker for our Women in the Tech Workplace speaker panel (happening tomorrow !) and a UW CS/combinatorics grad Bonnie is a software engineer at Google NYC working on Google Assistant's dialog framework. In her spare time, she loves to dance, listen to hip hop, and eat chocolate. Bonnie graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2016 with a joint major in Computer Science and Combinatorics. One day left! Our Women in the Tech Workplace speake...r panel is happening tomorrow, Thursday, November 12th from 5-6pm EST. Please register at: https://forms.gle/RrTuimWg6Lzs9Jcb9 in order to get the Zoom link and further event details.