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Internship fell through? Hackathons, open source and shipped projects as experience that hiring managers accept
A rescinded offer or a visa snag does not have to leave a blank on the resume. How hiring managers weigh non-internship experience, how to pick open-source work that gets merged, what makes a hackathon project count, and how to write it up so a parser, a model and a person believe it.
8 min read · reviewed Oct 17