Expedia came to Campus back in November and I had missed them completely. While they were here they hired 2 friends of mine for the summer and I was worried I missed the boat. I applied online to Bellevue and Chicago in November and they sent me back two rejections both before even doing rounds of interviews. I applied again anyways to Bellevue and even though that was my third time applying online, this time they sent me back a hacker rank coding challenge. They were 2 simple coding challenges that both used specific data structures (Queue, Stack, and unordered set). I got 19/20 of the test cases passed. Later that day I got an email for a behavioral interview, I just had to talk about myself and things I liked from school and past coding experiences. After that I had another email for a live interview over a skype like platform. During my live interview I was asked to do a BFS, I struggled a lot but I kept talking through it and with the help of my interviewer managed to complete it, then they had me adjust the code to do a similar operation and I really couldn't do it but I kept talking through it with my interviewer and he walked me through it and I coded it as we talked. 2 Weeks later I got my offer of hire! MAIN THING IS COMMUNICATION. These companies want people who can communicate and who understand that only 11% of companies believe students learn enough in school to be a software engineer. If you're a student please for the love of everything beautiful, do personal projects every day and build full scale stuff. None of this "I dont have time stuff." I have 18 credits this semester, 20 hour work weeks, I am president of a school club, and I still find 2 hours every other day for personal coding. If you are too busy you just don't want to be successful bad enough.