Gwc recruiting deck
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The document discusses tips for becoming a software engineer. It recommends studying computer science but also pursuing other interests that can provide inspiration for technology. It suggests getting involved in the tech community through meetups, open source projects, conferences, student groups, and side projects to demonstrate passion beyond academics. Technical skills can be learned through data structures and algorithms classes, but interviews also evaluate other experiences like internships and personal projects.
Gwc recruiting deck
- 1. @TwitterAds | Confidential @cbogie August 14, 2013 So you want to become a software engineer o r a t l e a s t e v e n t u a l l y o n c e y o u ’ r e d o n e w i t h c o l l e g e
- 2. @TwitterAds | Confidential About me Presented by: Christian Bogeberg
- 3. @Twitter 3 UCLA ’07, BA Political Science Disney campus recruiting internship Google recruiting coordinator sourced for Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) Twitter! sourced for all sorts of engineers -SRE, front end, distributed systems, machine learning, hardware, mobile University Programs -go out to campuses and recruit intern and entry level engineers -also run lots of internship programs here at HQ Since then, a nice little career thus far
- 4. @Twitter 4 On campus No...well, sometimes Main events: Career Fairs Tech Talks Hackathons On Campus Interviews so do you like, just throw parties?
- 5. @Twitter 5 So what do I study? Assuming you are passionate about technology, show it! CS, math, physics, statistics humanities? social science? arts? these are where the inspiration for great technology come from Google - academic research Twitter - dispatch systems Snapchat - communications Vine - film Instagram - photography Spotify - music Just study computer science. JUST STUDY
- 6. @Twitter 6 Ways to learn, and show it Meetups Open Source -apache, become a committer Github Conferences -pycon, oscon, velocity, Grace Hopper Student groups -HKN, ACM, NSBE, SHPE, SWE, hacker groups Side projects -mobile/web apps Beyond the gpa, way beyond
- 7. @Twitter 7 Ok, some classes are important these are what the interviews are based on Google “Google engineering interview questions” hashtables, binary search tree, reverse lookup, etc. data structures algorithms operating systems programming languages
- 9. UCLA - poli sci ‘07 Disney - campus recruiting intern Google - recruiting coordinator/sourcer Twitter! - sourcer/campus recruiter/university programs I recruit software engineers out of colleges and universities when i go on campus: tech talks career fairs hackathons on campus interviews these are all ways that students can come and engage with employees at my company -you need the cs background to get through the interviews -BUT -there are other important things to show about yourself typically studying cs, but math, physics, and statistics are good too, because involves lots of coding -but if you have a passion for social sciences, the humanities, life sciences, the arts -this diversity of perspective is very valuable -you can still learn tons about coding and technology so I’m going to assume you want to be a software engineer -if you want to be a software engineer, you’re probably passionate about technology! -show what excites you -meetups -get together and talk about some cool technology -no meetups in what your interested in your region? plan it! -open source/apache -you can work on important software that many organizations and services leverage, like linux, hadoop -everyone loves to see that you were a ‘committer’ to a project, which means you committed code that is now in production -not just software - the hyperloop is open source! -github -the standard version control system that allows you to store your code for others to use.
- 10. many times an interviewer will glance at your github profile to see what you’ve been working on -recruiters are always on github looking for great profiles -conferences -so many out there! pycon, velocity, grace hopper, oscon -great place to meet other people interested in the technology you’re into -lots of companies recruit from here also! -student groups -HKN, ACM, NSBE, SHPE, SWE, hacker groups -side projects/apps -in this day and age, you can work on ready-to-go mobile/web apps and learn how to build production grade systems in your spare time. great to see what classes you’ve taken -typically you’ll have taken at least data structures/algorithms class -typically you’ll have worked on class/group projects but i’d like to see more! -interned at a startup in your college town? -any interesting labs doing bleeding edge work in cs field?