I landed a job at Snap after guessing the recruiter's email address. Here's my advice for other recent graduates looking for tech roles.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sreeja Apparaju, a 24-year-old machine learning engineer at Snap living in New York. Business Insider has verified Apparaju's employment history with documentation. The following has been edited for length and clarity. When I decided to pivot from finance to tech in the fall of 2022, a couple of things were working against me.I was less than a year from graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, with a double major in computer science and e ...