Rants and Ruminations From A Job Applicant After 💯 CS Job Interviews in Silicon Valley | Talks
What is it like to interview at 1 technology company? Stressful and tiring. What is it like to interview at 100 technology companies? I have done that. In late August 2016, I quit an uninspiring full-time software job and talked to 100 employers in the San Francisco Bay Area to find the best fit. The hiring process reflects the company culture and its values. Listen to my rants and ruminations of interviewing at tiny seed-stage startups to large technology companies in Silicon Valley. Learn how to reform your own hiring process to be more considerate and thoughtful. Learn how to prepare for interviews efficiently.
Susan Tan
Susan is a software engineer in San Francisco. She was a web applications engineer at Cisco via the acquisition of Piston, a cloud computing startup located in San Francisco. Prior to Piston, she was a web applications engineer at Rotten Tomatoes the movie review website. She likes to use Python-based web frameworks. She’s a core committer of a Django-based web application project at www.openhatch.org. Susan loves to drink warm cups of oolong tea while coding.
Portland Ballroom 254-255
Friday, 19th May, 14:35 - 15:05
