How to know when to do something... CSCareers!
The best way to group source information about the process
I’m often asked how do I know if it’s time to apply, time to cold email, so on. And I keep saying use CSCareers! But not a lot of people know what I mean.
So first.. what is CSCareers?
https://www.cscareers.dev/process-tracking
It’s a discord server you can join, by clicking the banner on the top that says “Join Discord”, where it has a large collection of CS people. It’s a bit of a “meme” server, but it is really helpful for one thing that is super amazing which is process tracking!
Basically by clicking on example 2025 intern summer, 2025 new grad, so on, you are able to see all the people running commands in the server to note that they are in the OA, Phone, Final Round, Offers.
And so what I mean is that when there is more consistent streams of offers for Google, Meta, Amazon, so on, when you see there is a good amount of people in the final round, then yes - it could be time to start cold emailing, expecting an OA, reaching out to people on the server to see if you could trade emails for other first-point-of-contact emails so on!
So please, utilize such an amazing resource + help contribute back to the community. No one likes a leach.