VEO Updates 4/28
Happy Finals Season! We had a great semester with you all and just wanted to remind you of some of the events we held and give you all some great new resources!
Semester Recap!
Thank you all so much for an amazing semester! Here is a quick recap of the events we held!
2/8- Build Session!
On February 8th, we held our first event of the semester, a Build Sesh! We had so much fun chatting with you all!
2/16- Speaker Event with Benjamin Virga!
On February 16th, we had a Massachusetts-based entrepreneur, Benjamin Virga (Founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Bud & Mary’s, Principal at Bridgestone Properties), talk to us via Zoom! We had a blast hearing from him and having questions answered!
2/29- Lego Social!
On February 29th (Leap Day 😎), we held a super fun and cool social! We had so much fun and cannot wait to hold more of these!
3/22- Speaker Panel with Zak Slayback and Alex Zorychta!
On Friday, March 22, we hosted Zak Slayback (1517 Fund) and Alex Zorychta (Not Yet Ventures, former UVA McIntire Professor) for a speaker panel and open networking event! We are so grateful for them coming to speak for us and for all of you who showed up!
4/5- Imprint Speaker Event!
On Friday, April 5th, we hosted Alex Becker (SWE @ Imprint, Former PM Intern at Microsoft, former VEO President) on behalf of Imprint for a speaker event! We are so grateful he came out to speak to us and answer questions! Thank you all so much for coming!
4/18- Build Session!
On April 18th, we held our last event of the semester, a Build Sesh! We were so happy we got to say goodbye to all of our favorite builders ❤️.
Chatty: an AI-powered platform to interactively prep for technical interviews.
Look out for this new platform made by a UVA Student!
Every year, 10M+ students struggle to break into CS, finance, consulting, and quant roles. Current interactive prep options are asking your smart CS friend (inefficient) or paying for a mock interview online (very expensive). As students who have landed 33+ top interviews at companies like Battery Ventures, Uber, and Workday, we’ve had to overcome this problem ourselves time and time again. We know the feeling of failing interviews when it matters most and feeling like we could have done more mocks to prep.
We want to give every student a way to get more reps in before real interviews where it matters most, so we built Chatty: an AI-powered platform to interactively prep for technical interviews. Users can practice industry-standard problems in an integrated coding environment and ask our AI for feedback, clarifying questions, or guidance to practice the very dynamic and collaborative nature of a real technical interview. They can also practice finance-related technical questions. We’re now integrating into the UVA ecosystem alongside Darden, McIntire, and the School of Engineering, having seen users land coding roles at top companies like Google, Uber, and Workday!
Please feel free to reach out with any questions or thoughts @ (703) 371-7361 or mhe6jv@virginia.edu!
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Happy Monday!
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