There's tonnes of fantastic resources on youtube. Personally I recommend a channel called Renaissance Periodisation. They have a number of videos of people demonstrating various machines, and then more in depth videos on how to fix common technique problems. For routines, there's a website called boostcamp.app which has tonnes of routines put together by the community for beginners and up. Source: about 1 year ago

I suggest downloading the Boostcamp app which does this all for you automatically: https://boostcamp.app/. Source: over 1 year ago

Referrals, especially among large tech companies with thousands of employees handing them out, hold less and less weight these days. Everyone and their dog has referrals these days and if you so choose you can even buy them on https://rooftopslushie.com from people with positions that carry much more weight than a step intern. Source: over 2 years ago

4th-year CPEN (Computer Engineering) student, 84% average in last 2 years, 10 months of the internship experience, and yet nothing (got only 2-3 interviews and got rejected at HR rounds because they found another candidate). I am applying to almost 3 jobs/day and getting crickets. Got my resume reviewed by the coop office, senior SWEs at Faang companies, paid rooftopslushie.com to get it reviewed by HR, checked on... Source: about 3 years ago