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2013 CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop
M.S. Career OpportunitiesDilma Da Silva (Qualcomm Research)Prasanna Pilla (VMware)Fernanda Viégas (Google)
Agenda
• Introductions• Career Options• Evaluate yourself• How to present yourself• Interviewing • Negotiating a job offer• Career growth
• Member of Technical Staff, VMware• Masters in Computer Science• Thesis: Sentiment Analysis of Political Documents• Journey
• Skiing, biking, hiking, rock climbing, ski diving, cooking and travelling
Prasanna Pilla
Dilma Da Silva
Fernanda Viégas
• Staff Research Scientist at Google
• M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT Media Lab
• Research interests: data visualization, crowdsourcing, social web
• Married with two little girls
Fernanda Viégas
Agenda
• Introductions• Career Options• Evaluate yourself• How to present yourself• Interviewing • Negotiating a job offer• Career growth
Career Options
Career Options – What?
DeveloperTester
Support
Tech Ops
Business Analyst
Deployment
DBA
Project Manager
Define scope
Manager
managesmanages
manages
manages
Career Options – Where?
ResearchResearch IndustryIndustry
Established CompaniesEstablished Companies StartupsStartups
GovernmentGovernment UniversitiesUniversities
Career Options – How & Whom?–LinkedIn–University Career services and career fairs–Networking groups like ‘MassTLC’–Clubs and meet-up groups like ‘Bar Camp Boston’–Solving puzzles –Company websites–Professors –Friends
It’s a lot about networking
Career Options – When?
Evaluate yourself
Agenda
• Introductions• Career Options• Evaluate yourself• How to present yourself• Interviewing • Negotiating a job offer• Career growth
How do I present myself?
• Be the best version of yourself– Resume– LinkedIn– Personal webpage
• Be proactive: target skills for your dream job(s) and assess gaps
– internships: real-world experience is valued– network
• Know your resume inside-out – What did you do?– Why was it important?– Technical challenges?
• Why are you interested in this particular company?
– What is its story?– Where is it going?
Interview – job search
Interview – get ready• Review fundamentals: algorithms, data structures• Practice coding on a whiteboard; it is not easy or intuitive! • Use a collaborative editor • Find sample questions online • Get tips from books, blogs, your peers • Do mock interviews • Question might be vague: ask!• Talk through your solutions
– show your thought process– solution doesn't have to be "the" answer– highlight trade-offs and issues with performance, security, robustness, usability,
portability, scalability, libraries, etc
• For each one: people, project, current news
You are the interviewer too!
• Evaluate the organization as much as they are evaluating you– Guage culture through lunches and any informal conversations– Can you see yourself working there? – Get information you need to make a decision if you get an offer
• Think through timelines and be flexible
• Prepare to negotiate
Agenda
• Introductions• Career Options• Evaluate yourself• How to present yourself• Interviewing • Negotiating a job offer• Career growth
Negotiating a job offer
• By not negotiating a first salary, an individual stands to lose more than $500,000 by age 60.
– Men are more than four times as likely as women to – negotiate a first salary.
• You can negotiate for things other than salary– Stock grants, vacation time, job description, etc.
• Know what you are worth– Don't discount experience– Research online– Talk to peers and mentors
• Know how much you are willing to compromise
• Use other job offers as leverage
Career Growth• Define clear goals and set expectations of performance
• Document your joint understanding of goals/metrics to move to the next level
• Proactively meet regularly and make team and manager aware of progress and performance
• Participate well at meetings (and sit at the table)
• Balance between being nice and making a point
• Be visible to your manager’s manager
• Meet other people in the company over lunch/coffee
Career Growth: promotion
• Be pro-active
• Ask for feedback (from manager, peers)
• Tell others (potential reviewers) that you’re aiming at a promotion before your case goes up
• Talk to folks at the next level about what is expected and how you can narrow the gap
Questions