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Those job offers flying left and right in the heat of the AI talent wars? They sometimes have a lit fuse attached.Prem Qu Nair, an early software engineer at Windsurf, said Google gave him an exploding job offer to join its DeepMind lab during its recent hiring blitz at the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jay Jung, 28, a software engineer from San Francisco, about landing jobs in Big Tech. The following has been edited for length and clarity.During college, I found it hard to get internships.Since then, I’ve built my career as a software…
When Steve Huynh was a principal engineer at Amazon, meetings began with a “study hall.”Amazon had a “reading culture” even among engineers, Huynh recently told the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, speaking of his time at the tech giant. Employees frequently drafted six-page memos, he said, which they shared with the company…
It’s just not enough to cold apply for tech jobs anymore, said Aashna Doshi, a two-time intern turned software engineer at Google. To land a spot at a tech giant, you need to be networking “intentionally.””Knowing who you want to meet, finding that common bridge between both of you, and…
Akshay Phadké knows what it takes to move up in the tech industry. The Seattle-based 31-year-old’s résumé includes positions at startups and behemoths alike, including Ericsson, Microsoft, Vareto, and his current company, Webflow, where he is a senior software engineer.He’s also secured final-round interviews at Meta, Amazon, Dropbox, and Yelp…
Janvi Kalra, an engineer at OpenAI, thinks students should diversify their experiences after college, with at least one internship at a Big Tech firm and another at a startup.That way, she said on an episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, you have a better idea of what career path you…