minhaz23

How much is required on a resume to get past a screener and land an interview?

I have some follow up questions if you don't mind:

>have built up a pretty good "reading recommender" system of Twitter users, subreddits, aggregators, blogs, etc;

How can I do this? I follow a bunch of influential people in tech and VC last I logged into Twitter, is this what you're talking about? One of my favorite Twitter users is @patrickc, he always has book recommendations.

Any other tips or advice to better optimize my twitter feed?

>And not just technical books - books on business strategy, behavioral economics and psych, industry-specific blogs and journals - if you can't explain what you're doing in terms of risk, dollars, or time, you're doing it wrong.

Any suggestions? Book suggestions for business strategy, behavioral economics, and psych? I'm into these books too but sometimes it's hard to see the concrete connection it might have to my day to day dealings.

>(Also a good life pro tip: download every interesting thing you read into a single repo and put a crawler on top of them. Even if you don't know the answer, you know you've read it somewhere and can retrieve it.)

Sorry, I'm not THAT technically savvy, is there a tutorial or video i can gleam to learn this? It sounds super helpful because I do have a habit of referring back to something I learned online because its in one of many bookmark folders in my browser.

>These days I spent probably 15-20 hours a week just reading, learning, doing, in prep for the 20-30 hours a week I spend educating, communicating, and (hopefully) selling.

What are you selling exactly?

>One thing to add: I usually am focusing on 2 things at a time, no more, no less. If you can combine them, even better - learn Kafka for streaming and Grafana to visualize it; learn Azure SQL DW or Redshift for distributed DW and Spark for processing; etc.

This is good advice, I think. I'm attempting it right now. By focusing on learning java and selenium. Do you ever feel FOMO about what you're not learning or reading though? Any way to combat that?

How does one move into technical leadership?

this is it? any reason for the toxicity? poor moderation?

Are there any non tech management level positions at FAANG that net these types of salaries as well?

I have this mental hurdle I cant seem to get over, I keep reading about how there are engineers at FAANGs purely self taught but then im also reading about people with degrees, bootcamps, internships under their belts having a hard time getting hired.

What advice do you have for me? If im self taught how do i even get my foot in the door with amazon? How do I have them even consider me for an interview? Anecdotally speaking how did you and your self taught peers do it? Was it projects? Or work experience at less exclusive companies?

Are you saying some of the people here with 400-800k salaries are top 5% at a FAANG?

How did you display coding knowledge without a degree in it?

How did you get hired at a FAANG what did they like about you?

Being self taught, will I ever get to be as fortunate as you working at FAANG and seeing salaries and stocks like that?

This is your business or you're just someone that got in at the beginning? Like a startup or a division of the company, you were originally at?

Any advice for others? Isn't it notoriously difficult getting hired at Google?

Do other non tech positions at Google pay as much?

What about positions like QA?

Do you think your degree helped?

Is $240k a lot or a little as a senior SWE at a FAANG? Don't freshers hired out of school get offered tht much?

Any advice for others?

Is the amount of money typical for developers?

Any advice? Like how others can reach that point, faster?

What would you have done differently to reach that point quicker/

Do you think being a phd student helped? Contributing to libraries?

Is it typical for senior SWE to make 1.2 million?

How can one reach that point faster?

It's hard to realize what problems a business faces without being involved intimately in the industry.

How can one seek out these problems and begin to work on solutions?

Would you mind sharing those posts?