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How to upskill your interviews with a super senior engineer (from Microsoft & Google)
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Software architect, above-senior engineer, formerly of Microsoft and Google, Dima Korolev dives deep into the differences between mid-level, senior, and above-senior level candidates. He's interviewed close to 1000+ engineers, and he shares advice on how to be seen at the level we desire. Dima shines a light on his background in ML, his thoughts on GPT being all hype (This is coming from a guy who wrote NLP patents for Google), and how candidates can set themselves ahead and become better engineers. This is the first episode of Offer Town, a show by Kevin Landucci about practical,...
info_outlineSoftware architect, above-senior engineer, formerly of Microsoft and Google, Dima Korolev dives deep into the differences between mid-level, senior, and above-senior level candidates. He's interviewed close to 1000+ engineers, and he shares advice on how to be seen at the level we desire.
Dima shines a light on his background in ML, his thoughts on GPT being all hype (This is coming from a guy who wrote NLP patents for Google), and how candidates can set themselves ahead and become better engineers.
This is the first episode of Offer Town, a show by Kevin Landucci about practical, playful, & unconventional tactics for engineers to get offers, promotions, and paid what we're worth.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Getting to know Dima and AI is hype
2:20 What do you think of Chat GPT?
3:13 Are people getting laid off at Google because of advances in AI?
7:05 How important is coding for mid, senior, and above-senior level?
8:40 Pass coding interviews at mid-level, you may not need to improve for the rest of your life
9:56 People think they failed because of coding, they're not always right
11:06 Above the senior level, you have to break the rules
13:02 "Say more with less"
14:26 What Dima looks for in Staff and Principle Engineers
15:38 The different archetypes of Staff Engineers
16:35 Common reasons in behavioral interviews to get downlevels / rejections
17:56 Don't say "API"
20:02 Different types of system design interviewers
21:34 Trivia and games
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