From ce021ba9409e21d3aa61fa6c543925b6a0574f6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yangshun Tay Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:23:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- preparing/README.md | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/preparing/README.md b/preparing/README.md index 22c297ef..ad3ab95d 100644 --- a/preparing/README.md +++ b/preparing/README.md @@ -49,25 +49,25 @@ Use earphones and make sure you are in a quiet environment. You definitely do no **Self Introduction** -Prepare a self introduction that follows the following outline. +Prepare a self introduction that follows the following outline (inspired by "Cracking the Coding Interview" by Gayle McDowell): -1. A sentence about your current or most recent role -2. A few sentences about your (academic) background. What did you focus on? -3. Some sentences about your professional experience after school/university. Where did you work? What projects did you deal with? What where typical challenges and tasks? Which technologies did you use? -4. Mention one to two sentences about what you do outside of work, if it is relevant for the role. -5. Finish with a statement saying why you are seeking a new job opportunity and why you are interested in the role you applied for +1. A sentence about your current or most recent role. +1. A few sentences about your (academic) background. What did you focus on? +1. Some sentences about your professional experience after school/university. Where did you work? What projects did you deal with? What where typical challenges and tasks? Which technologies did you use? +1. Mention one to two sentences about what you do outside of work, if it is relevant for the role. +1. Finish with a statement saying why you are seeking a new job opportunity and why you are interested in the role you applied for. An example of the above could be: -I'm Peter Griffin and currently a software engineer at Google. - -My background is in computer science, where I have received my bachelor's degree at MIT and my master's degree at Standford. I mainly did research on how to decrease complexity of search algorithms. - -After university, I started to work at Microsoft as a software engineer. It was a great experience as I was working in the Office team contributing to MS Word and MS Powerpoint. I learned a lot about C# and .NET back then. After about two years, I got an offer from Google where I have been working since then. I'm now leading the search team and have gained a lot of knowlegde in scalability. My daily tasks consist of optimizing search queries. - -Outside of work I develp a lot of open source projects written in Crystal. - -I'm now seeking new job oppurtunities in the Boston area since I'm relocating for personal reasons. In particular I think Boston Dynamics is a perfect fit for my interests as well as my skill set. +> I'm John Doe and currently a Software Engineer at Google. +> +> My background is in Computer Science, where I received my bachelor's degree at MIT and my Master's degree at Stanford. I mainly did research on how to decrease complexity of search algorithms. +> +> After university, I started to work at Microsoft as a Software Engineer. It was a great experience as I was working in the Office team contributing to MS Word and MS Powerpoint. I learned a lot about C# and .NET back then. After about two years, I got an offer from Google where I have been working since then. I'm now leading the Search Optimization team and have gained a lot of knowledge in scalability and domain knowledge. My daily tasks consist of optimizing search queries and mentoring junior engineers. +> +> Outside of work I develop a on open source projects written in Python. Examples of some open source projects I created are . +> +> I'm now seeking new job oppurtunities in the Boston area since I'm relocating for personal reasons. In particular I think Boston Dynamics is a perfect fit for my interests as well as my skill set. **Upon Getting the Question**