Guerrila guide for propelling your career

Career advice given to Computer Science students at University of California at Irvine (UCI)

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3. INTRODUCTION My name is César López-Natarén Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineer @ MindTouch, Inc I work on high performance web services and APIs for our product help application Contributor to Free/Open Source Software
5. AGENDA 1. PHONE SCREENING PROCESS 2. ROUND OF ON-SITE INTERVIEWS
6. RECURRING THEMES ATTITUDE/PERSONALITY TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
8. PURPOSE OF THE PHONE SCREENING PROCESS Explore candidate's personality type Determine the existence of a minimum of technical capabilities Getting to know what kind of problems the candidate gets excited about solving In general the interviewer is trying to determine that it is worthwhile for the team to meet the candidate in person
10. SHOW HOW GENUINELY PASSIONATE YOU ARE ABOUT THINGS THAT INTEREST YOU
11. SHOW GENUINE INTEREST IN WHAT THE COMPANY DOES & ITS CULTURE
12. BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT HAS TO BE A MUTUAL FIT
14. BE PREPARED AND EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING THAT IS ON YOUR RESUME
16. PURPOSE OF THE ON-SITE INTERVIEWS 1. To make crystal clear that the candidate has the creativity and intellectual power for tackling the kind of problems that the company is trying to solve 2. Ditto 3. Ditto, again :-) 4. To determine that there is a culture fit between the company and the candidate
17. BE COMPETENT AT COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY
18. MEANING ... HAVE YOUR DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS DOWN
19. BE PROFICIENT AT PROGRAMMING
20. IN PARTICULAR BE PROFICIENT AT PROGRAMMING WITH THE LANGUAGE OF THE ADVERTISED OPENING
21. If you are a computer scientist, never stop hacking, never ever -- Erik Meijer
22. BE PREPARED TO ARTICULATE YOUR IDEAS CLEARLY AND SUCCINTLY
23. BE PREPARED TO SHOW YOUR "CREDENTIALS"
25. BUILD A PORTFOLIO OF THINGS YOU HAVE MADE
27. CONTRIBUTE TO OPEN SOURCE So many projects: On Github Bitbucket GNU/Savannah Apache projects Linux Kernel etc
28. CHOOSE THE PROJECT THAT INTERESTS YOU THE MOST, AND HACK ON IT
29. IT SHOWS THAT YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR CRAFT
30. IT SHOWS THAT YOU GET THINGS DONE
31. IF YOU PASSED THE TECH INTERVIEWS THEN THE CULTURE FIT PROCESS WILL BEGIN
32. MAKE SURE TO ASK GREAT QUESTIONS