UW Wave

Cruise through recruiting season with this powerful WaterlooWorks companion app
What is UW Wave?
UW Wave is a Chrome extension that scrapes data directly from WaterlooWorks to power your job search. It offers a dense job list, fast search and filter, custom shortlists, salary estimation, skills match percentage, AI generated keywords, and student community sourced information.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 5.00 (4)
Version: 1.3.3 (Last updated: 2024-04-05)
Creation date: 2023-09-02
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Host permissions:
  • *://waterlooworks.uwaterloo.ca/*
Size: 3.48M

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Extension summary

Our extension scrapes information directly from WaterlooWorks. We then build features around this data which you can use at https://uwwave.ca. You can also export this data for your own use.

  • A dense job list that has just the information you care about
  • Fast search and filter that updates the job list instantly on the page
  • More filtering options (e.g. 4/8 month, SWPP, external application required)
  • Search and filters encoded in the url for easy saving and sharing
  • Custom shortlists
  • Permalinks to WaterlooWorks jobs

Power your job search with new information:

  • Parsed and estimated salary from the job posting
  • Skills match percentage to your resume
  • AI generated keywords
  • Student community sourced information (e.g. compensation and reviews)
  • Salaries and reviews from InternCompass and r/uwaterloo megathread
  • Public information on companies from the web

User reviews

by Joshua Lee, 2024-03-07

by Janakitti Ratana, 2024-01-09

by William Qin, 2024-01-09
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Extension safety

Risk impact

UW Wave requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

UW Wave is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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