Internship Lingo
Data Structures
Tech Companies
Tech Memes
100

A quick daily meeting where team members share updates on what they’re working on, any blockers, and their next steps.

What is stand-up?

100

This data structure stores elements in a key-value pair, allowing for fast lookups by key.

What is a hash table?

100

This company, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, is known for its Windows operating system and Office suite.

What is Microsoft?

100

This tech CEO is secretly a lizard? 

Who is Mark Zuckerberg?

200

A casual one-on-one conversation with a coworker or mentor, often used for networking.

What is a coffee chat?

200

This data structure follows the LIFO (Last In, First Out) principle, where the last element added is the first one removed.

What is a stack?

200

This company, founded by Jeff Bezos, started as an online bookstore and has since expanded into a global e-commerce giant.

What is Amazon?

300

A meeting held at the end of a sprint where the team reflects on what went well, what could be improved, and action items for the next sprint.

What is sprint retro?

300

This type of tree is a binary tree where the left child node contains a smaller value and the right child node contains a larger value.

What is a binary search tree (BST)?

300

In 2014, this tech company purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion, its largest acquisition to date, as part of its strategy to diversify beyond its original social media platform.

What is Meta?

400

A process where developers examine each other's code to ensure quality, catch bugs, and suggest improvements before merging changes.

What is a code review?

400

This data structure organizes data in a way that allows for efficient searching, insertion, and deletion, using a combination of an array and a tree.

What is a heap?

400

This semiconductor company, founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce in 1968, played a critical role in the development of the microprocessor and is often credited with advancing Moore’s Law.

What is Intel?

500

When you’re feeling overwhelmed with a project, your go-to action is probably to google this to help you make sense of the confusing error message you’ve just encountered.

What is Stack Overflow?

500

This self-balancing tree structure ensures that the height of the tree remains logarithmic by performing rotations when nodes are added or removed.

What is an AVL tree?

500

This Silicon Valley company, founded by Reid Hoffman in 2002, started as a professional networking site and has since become a subsidiary of Microsoft

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