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 **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
+1. A sentence about your current or most recent role.
-2. A few sentences about your (academic) background. What did you focus on?
+1. 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?
+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?
-4. Mention one to two sentences about what you do outside of work, if it is relevant for the role.
+1. 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. 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.
+> I'm John Doe and currently a Software Engineer at Google.
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+> 
-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.
+> 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.
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+> 
-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.
+> 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.
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+> 
-Outside of work I develp a lot of open source projects written in Crystal.
+> Outside of work I develop a on open source projects written in Python. Examples of some open source projects I created are <insert examples>.
-
+> 
-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 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**