CTI Accelerate: Fireside Chat with Shivana Anand
June 24, 2025

hosted by Anika Kinoshita
Shivana Anand is a software engineer at Google. She was raised in Southern California and attended UC Berkeley, studying electrical engineering and computer science.
third-year SWE internship company is in your "back pocket"
engagement with the company's recruitment efforts
responding to their emails
talk to recruiter to expedite interviews
Interviews are less about technical experience. They're about telling a story about yourself.
SWE is collaborative; design aspect; what are different ways to accomplish a goal?
engineers will use AI as a tool
there are things engineers have to do that aren't AI
AI can't justify taking an approach - research usage, reliability, other dependencies, etc.
in an interview, "just be a person"