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Regarding what you should put on a resume, check out this checklist we put together:

https://breakoutlist.com/engineer-resume-checklist

Regarding examples of a great resume, see the one in the photo above.

Also see the following template regarding this and your question about the best tools for making one.

Example resume on ShareLaTeX: https://www.sharelatex.com/project/55db6ac384d1be370a7d4b9a

> Can you share some advice that would help me increase my chances of finding a good job?

Treat it like an engineering problem. Analyze your funnel - what companies/opportunities are you starting with? What's your conversion rate between funnel steps? How can you increase that?

And, vitally, how can you put yourself in the shoes of the person on the other side? How can you simulate their perspective? At every point of interaction with you, if you were them, what would you think? And given that knowledge, how can you improve what you're doing?

Other things: check out @sehurlburt on Twitter, Stephanie gives great advice on this topic. Also search around and read threads like the following: https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/23e4df/entry_l...

> Key points

> Quant trading pays very well, plateauing at between $300,000 and $10m a year after five to ten years, depending on performance. This of course allows for very large annual donations.

> The job is highly intellectually challenging, and most staff are very satisfied with their work. Turnover in the firms is very low. The culture is quite geeky – nothing like the aggressive and showy stereotype of some parts of finance. The work is highly collaborative and good teamwork skills are vital.

> There are arguments both that quant trading is socially useful, and that it is socially harmful. Having investigated these, Alex thinks that it is highly likely to be beneficial for the world. Rob is less confident, but still leans towards thinking it is net positive. Both explain their perspectives and consider some potential downsides.

> The most common majors to study to get into the industry are maths, computer science and physics, but people with the necessary abilities can apply from many other fields too. The key trait they look for is “evidence of general problem solving, or puzzle solving, or analytical thinking”. Coding isn’t necessary as it is taught to you.

> While very competitive, the application process is quite straightforward, so it’s worth a shot for many people.

For anyone seeking alternatives, $0 up-front cost software engineering bootcamps that I'm aware of:

Learner’s Guild https://www.fastcoexist.com/3068200/when-this-entrepreneurs-...

42 (completely free) https://www.42.us.org/

Holberton School https://www.holbertonschool.com/

Lambda Academy https://lambdaschool.com/computer-science

> “We’re now an independent company within the Alphabet umbrella,” Waymo CEO Jon Krafcik told an audience at a press event in California today. Krafcik also noted that they had the first fully driverless ride on public roads in Austin last year, using a car with no steering wheels and no pedals in “everyday traffic” on real city streets.

Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Thank you for sharing. How did you first come across this?

The one linked here:

https://quip.com/MFS9AXtq5fk8

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Heh. I don't want to solve it myself. I want someone to solve it. I will pay $50 for a bug-free version of the previous version of Mailbox.app, today.

Edit: Looks like Mailbox has fixed the app. Nice.

Glad to see this happen.

Looks pretty barren currently (and prices are high!), but I've long been waiting for a much higher quality version of wrapbootstrap/envato marketplaces.

Hopefully they won't be accepting any low quality themes -- parallax, anyone?!

Though also that price is really high.

Edit: Ironically, my favorite theme is the one they are using on the marketing site for this themes website! Hope they put it up for sale. And that admin theme is pretty gorgeous too. I'm excited about this!

Was answering the question above and came across this so figured I'd share -- though maybe Patrick/Stripe has changed his/their mind since then :-)

> We'd rather not disclose the amount, but it was less than you might think.

http://www.quora.com/How-much-did-Stripe-com-spend-on-their-...

> After sending a bunch of these emails by hand, I wrote a Bash script for the process in my old Harvard Computer Society shell account (sending from a .edu address would make us seem reputable while not flush with cash). I tested it out, but having forgotten both “set -u” and to provide any inputs, it sent an email with all variables blank. The to: address defaulted to mailer-daemon@, an administrative list that all of my former HCS colleagues were on. They were pretty confused to see my email asking if I could buy “.com” from them, and I was suitably embarrassed. I figured the cost of further similar embarrassment would be higher than the manual time I'd save, so I kept sending emails manually.

> In total, I sent several hundred emails that day. Of the plausible responses I received, stripe.com was the clear winner. (Incidentally, I also got a reply from the parse.com owner; months later I sent my accumulated domain name list to Tikhon Bernstam, which is how Parse got its name.)

http://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name/an...

Cost:

> We'd rather not disclose the amount, but it was less than you might think.

http://www.quora.com/How-much-did-Stripe-com-spend-on-their-...

Summary: They sent emails from a student email address to the domain contacts as listed in the Whois details. Cost was perhaps in the range of $2-20k (which I realize is a big range).

I think that's definitely true if you're on a team like Glass v2 or self driving cars.

Sometimes people are better at giving advice than they are at following it :-)

Yes. Though part of the crux of this advice is to choose a company that is already growing revenue at a solid rate, from a solid base. This is not as risky as you might think.

Also, generally, if you are a good engineer (as long as you learned things and improved, if you worked at a company that didn't become a big success), Google et al will welcome you back with open arms.

Yes. And often the best way to enrich someone else is to enrich yourself (i.e. people are happy when they are skilled, good at their work, liked by their coworkers, etc; turns out employers also like this).

Good point. This advice is definitely aimed at a specific group of people with a specific set of ambitions.

Great point. Though some of the general concepts still apply, for example, on identifying who you want to be working with, what you care about, etc.

I'm curious to hear -- why is the optimal career for most people to be a lifer at Google?