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The #passion Myth | You don’t find passion, you create it.
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You don’t find passion, you create it.We are all looking for our passion but most of us got the concept all wrong.You are NOT born with passionsWe are NOT born with passions. We are born with talents.We do NOT find your passions. We find our talents which can give us a hint as to what might be worth trying out.We are NOT given passions by nature. We construct them, hatch them and nurture them.In search of your passion…Maybe you already have passions. If you are in search of those existing sources of passion asking yourself: “What am I passionate about?” won’t help much.Instead ask: “What thing do I feel immersed in when I do it?”, “What subject can I study and discuss about for hours?”.This doesn’t have to be related to your career by the way. Weightlifting?️‍♂️, bird watching?, pottery making?, (...)

#careers #career-advice #passion-myth #create-passion

Marissa Mayer Interview : How a Revenue Guarantee Almost Killed #google
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Interview by Harj TaggarI remember when we made a huge revenue guarantee to AOL to get the account. We did a best-case scenario projection, a middle of the road projection, and a worst-case scenario projection. Worst-case scenario and middle of the road had us going out of business with the contract. The best-case scenario had us breaking even.Marissa Mayer was one of the earliest employees at Google and helped to shape both Gmail and Google Maps. Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo in 2012, a position she held until 2017 when Yahoo was acquired by Verizon for $4.48 billion. In 2018, she co-founded Lumi Labs, a startup incubator in Palo Alto focusing on consumer media and AI. Marissa Mayer recently sat down with Triplebyte’s CEO, Harj Taggar, to discuss her career in #tech and the advice she (...)

#careers #marissa-mayer-interview #software-development

Choosing a #startup to Work For? Think Like an Investor.
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I believe that most advice on choosing a startup to work for is wrong. Early employees at wildly successful startups suggest you assume the value of your equity is zero and instead optimize for how much you can learn. In this post I’ll argue that evaluating how likely a startup is to succeed should actually be the most important factor in your decision to join one. As a former partner at Y Combinator, I know a lot about how #investors do this. Now, as a founder and CEO of Triplebyte, I see how much less rigor the average job seeker applies to their decision and what they miss that investors would notice.First you should be sure you really want to work at a startup. This is not the right choice for everyone. Paul Buchheit, an early engineer at Google, says,“If you’re happy working where you (...)

#software-development #programming #careers

Bootcamps vs. #college
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Data from a tech hiring companyProgramming bootcamps seem to make an impossible claim. Instead of spending four years in university, they say, you can learn how to be a software engineer in a three month program. On the face of it, this sounds more like an ad for Trump University than a plausible educational model.But this is not what we’ve found at Triplebyte. We do interviews with engineers, and match them with startups where they’ll be a good fit. Companies vary widely in what skills they look for, and by mapping these differences, we’re able to help engineers pass more interviews and find jobs they would not have found on their own. Over the last year, we’ve worked with about 100 #bootcamp grads, and many have gone on to get jobs at great companies. We do our interviews blind, without (...)

#software-development #careers #programming

Best tech company to work for in 2019 is — as always — illusive
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Best tech company to work for in 2019 is — as always — illusiveWorkplace By rawpixel on pixabayWhen you apply and nail the interview, you often ponder over whether this is the right opportunity. Sources like Glassdoor announce best tech companies to work for every year. The real answer is much more elusive than a developer might think.Over time, software companies have evolved at much faster rate than their other industry counterparts. This is for obvious reasons because they are often the first beneficiaries of IT infrastructure — Cloud + #internet. Inferring from trends, it is quite easy to classify your prospective software employer into 3 distinct generations. Are you working for a 3rd generation software company?What is 1st Generation software company?They often fail to make it to the list of (...)

#technology #software-development #workplace #careers

PM Career Tips w/ Nitin Julka, Group PM @ LinkedIn
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AWIP fireside chat with Nitin Julka, co-hosted by WeWork SFOn Thursday, April 26th, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) held a fireside chat with Nitin Julka, a Group PM at LinkedIn, leading LinkedIn’s Campaign Manager, where we discussed advice he had for aspiring PMs on the cusp of becoming PMs as well as concrete tips on how to climb the ladder to PM career success.For Aspiring PMsBe methodical — come up with a list of interested companiesMaking a list of companies (typically I separate companies by sector, funding stage, interest in the founders) with the criteria you want to satisfy is a great way to have a methodical way to proceed through interviews. This will help solve a lot of the early questions, such as, “What kind of startups do I like? Which industries?” And this will even come in (...)

#careers #women-in-tech #product-management

The daily #life of a person working in #blockchain, #crypto and DLT
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The Daily Life of a Person Working in Blockchain, Crypto and DLT8 am — Wake up — Check CoinMarketCap — Everything in red — “I should buy today”9 am — Start writing technical document for a client’s groundbreaking, earth-shattering, never-before, highly centralized crypto-exchange9:15 am — Complete one paragraph — People around start talking about Ripple and XRP — Join conversation — Argue until victory is achieved.10:30 am — Get back to writing — EOS price starts crashing — Time to buy — Open Binance app — Everything in red — “Not yet” — Close Binance app — Start writing again.11:00 am — Finished writing one page — Boss calls in for a meeting — Requirement changed! — Client wants decentralized fish token marketplace — Throws away all the work.11:15 am — Need to research about fish tokens — Search on Google — Open CoinDesk article (...)

#careers #bitcoin

How Mika Reyes got her job at LinkedIn as a Product Manager? Part 1
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Are you interested in being a PM?! Learn Mika’s story with Flora.▻https://medium.com/media/36fe911f98e684892498bb97fc804bd9/hrefMika won the competition among many senior PMs and got her jobs at LinkedIn as a Product Manager when she only had one year of experience. She shared with me how she did it.How she talk about herself.How and where she practice her interviewsCreative ways to get a hold of hiring managersHow to tell your story in a compelling way and in a consistent manner.How Mika Reyes got her job at LinkedIn as a Product Manager? Part 1 was originally published in Hacker Noon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this (...)

#careers #tech-jobs-san-francisco #job-interview #product-management #job-hunting

The Rise of the #greypreneur
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Over 50 and Winning the Gig EconomyToday, 60% of workers aged 45+ have experienced prejudice and unfairness in the workplace based on their age, sometimes even going far enough to reach termination and replacement. Yet, by the time we reach 2024, around 25% of the US workforce will be aged 55 and over — here’s how older professionals are succeeding.Of all the self-employed individuals in the US, 49% are Baby Boomers. But the freedom and independence of self-employment and entrepreneurship didn’t happen overnight; it’s the sum of experience. “Many baby boomers are not interested in retirement. They’re always interested in building something,” says Sylvia DeWitt, administrator of the Iowa Entrepreneurs Coalition. For older corporate professionals faced with the risks of being replaced with (...)

#sharing-economy #gig-economy #baby-boomers #careers

Bootstrapping A Career Via Developer Camp
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Developer CampWhile there’s hundreds of #hackathons held world-wide, there’s only one Developer Camp.Square, Getaround, Temple Run, OAuth, TestFlight, push.io, and Zūm — each of these have foundations at Developer Camp over the past twelve years. In fact, major compaines including Apple, Oracle, Google, Amazon, Disney, and Facebook have purchased companies from the winning teams at Developer Camp.What makes Developer Camp so unique and special? Three words.Inclusion, Diversity and Empowerment.Developer Camp is a concept that fused from several distinct, previously-existing event models. The first was BarCamp, a participant-driven “unconference” in which the content of presentations is decided by the attendees, presented by them, and organized entirely on the spot. Our camp incorporates this (...)

#developer-camp #women-in-tech #developer-bootcamp #careers

Want to turn a role model into a mentor? Just be cool
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Want to turn a role model into a mentor? Just be cool.This is the second part of my series on #mentorship, which I started a few months ago here with the post, “Want a mentor? Stop asking for one.”A few months ago, I wrote about how the kiss of death when it comes to seeking out adult mentorship in your life is often the very act of asking for a mentor. Furthermore, I pointed out (and still really believe) that this misconception around mentorship is all a bit over-played. At the end of the day, most of us don’t need someone to meet with us every couple of weeks and guide our every action in our #careers. Chances are, you’re just looking for some good advice now — and maybe again in a few months.There are a lot of tactics I shared about how you can go about securing an initial coffee meeting or (...)

#team #lifehacks #role-model-into-mentor

6 Tips to Land the Tech Internship That Will Lead to Your Software Engineer Career
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Source: Pexels.comYou have completed most of your coursework in college and are looking forward to starting your career as a software engineer. One thing that will help you gain your dream job is to have an internship while you are still in school. Here are six tips to land the tech internship that will lead to your software engineer career.1. Start earlyWhen you are looking for a tech internship you want to start early. Some schools will offer assistance finding #internships but it is up to you to apply for them. Sometimes you have to do your own research and find your own tech internship. If this is the case you need to start even earlier. Either way, you will need to apply for your tech internship at least a year in advance, sometimes even longer. If you wait until the last minute, (...)

#tech-internship #technology-internship #careers #software-engineering

#product Management Skills NO ONE talks about ;)
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Product Management skills NO ONE talks about ;)Let me tell you a secret that the product management industry is hiding from you, or maybe not saying it out loud — we don’t care ‘too’ much about the hard skills. And what hard skills? Writing a PRD? Doing user interviews? Understanding UX? Knowing business and tech?There’s more than what meets the eye here. And more than UX, Business, and Tech, that’s required to become a better Product Manager.Few years ago, when I started my Product Management career, almost every Google search on, “What do PMs do?” or “What skills are required to be a good PM?” landed me on a Venn! This Venn:Source: What, exactly, is a Product Manager?The Venn diagram tells you Product Managers sit at the intersection of tech, design, and business. This Venn was a good insight into (...)

#careers #product-management #product-design #career-advice

Hedge Your #work Against “Career Cliffs”
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My hypothetical career nightmare is easy: Wake up one morning without any usable skills to carry with me through the next transition. I call this end-of-the-world scenario for my job the “career cliff.”In this future state of loss, I’m left with nothing. None of the right tools, none of the right experiences, none of the right connections. I’m stuck without a job and without options. As a result, I can’t pivot, and I’m forced to watch the rest of the world pass by and continue to grow and learn and advance while I…don’t.This paranoia cuts deep for me. As a child of Baby Boomers, I’ve watched more than my fair share of adults around me hit a wall in their #careers and then get stuck, wedged like rocks in a waterfall. Whether casualties of the 2008 recession, of the DotCom boom (and bust), or some (...)

#hedge-your-career #career-cliff #hedge-your-work

How I freelance through the holiday season
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unsplash.comTis the season to spend money.Booking vacations to relax or travel time to see family.Buying more than usual due to all the tempting sales from Black Friday and Cyber Monday.Starting your gift gathering.Money just burns through our pockets this time of year.I know it may sound crazy sound crazy but, the holiday season is the best time to make money.While most people are thinking about Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and overall holiday shopping. I like to shift my focus to earning more this time of year opposed to spending more.I’m a regular guy, and my pockets are burning just as much as yours but… I’m looking to offset all the spending. This happens by switching my freelance model up a bit.3 things are likely to happen this time of year which makes a perfect storm for some holiday (...)

#freelancing #careers #holidays #freelance-holiday #tech-freelance

The Art of Extending Freelance Projects
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unsplash.comLanding clients can be a challenge, but once you get over the hill know as pre-freelancing and land your first client, you begin to see the light.You land a client, then land another, followed by another. Your portfolio is starting to expand. More clients are reaching out to you in hopes of bringing you aboard.Life is good.Then you begin to realize that jumping from project to project so frequent can be a little exhausting.At this point, you should start to question the duration of your projects.Short term is great when starting out. It helps you get your foot in the door of the vast freelance world. It also beefs up your portfolio enough to attract new projects.Longer terms projects begin to get more and more appealing for some obvious reasons.Manage your availability (...)

#freelancing #tech-freelancing #careers #freelance-projects #client-relationship

Want a Career in Fiber Optics? Here’s Where to Start!
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Source: ▻https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-telephone-booth-257736/Fiber optics play a big part in the infrastructure that runs a lot of the world’s connectivity. We all need the #internet, and fiber optics is one of the fastest modes of transport for information and telecommunications. Therefore, fiber optic technicians and engineers are in high demand right now and #careers in all kinds of industries are just waiting for you.If you have been dreaming of a career in fiber optics, now is the time to get your foot in the door. Right now, fiber optics offers many rewarding opportunities with different types of companies from internet providers serving broadband communications, to medical device manufacturers and military operations. Fiber optic cable is used in hundreds of industries (...)

#technology-trends #fiber-optics #technology

The Rejection-proof Freelance #portfolio Formula
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Let’s rewind a bit. You woke up this morning and decided you want to be among the many remarkable individuals who freelance. You proceed to take a look at the fluff-free guide to pre-freelancing. Start to follow it and are now sending out proposals. Life is good. You’re waiting for responses to roll in. You’re amazing at what you do so people should be blowing your inbox up by now.Hours turn into days, days into weeks, and you went from wanting to freelance to filling out job applications. You didn’t realize how much work it was to land a single client. Good news! You’re not alone. Most freelancers hit this brick wall when seeking their first client.I get asked the same question more often than not, “why isn’t anyone biting?” Then I ask them to send me the link to their portfolio or Upwork (...)

#careers #freelancing #tech-freelance #development

How to land your dream job in #tech
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Looking for a new opportunity? Are you considering switching to a different tech company? Maybe a different team inside your current company? The following tips will help you decide whether a certain position or offer is right for you.Interviewing in the tech industry is emotionally exhausting and stressful. You can read some good advice on how to cope with tech interviews from someone who has done it more than ten times. But is the decision-making process done after you pass the interviews? No. Choosing the right team can also be stressful and, arguably, it’s the decision that has the highest impact on your long-term happiness and career goals.As I mentioned on the post about my top learnings after nine years working at Microsoft, there are 3 big pillars on anyone’s happiness at (...)

#job-hunting #dream-job-in-tech #careers #interview

You’re not a junior developer any more
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I’m all grown up!!??!Virtually everyone in technology suffers from imposter syndrome. The feeling of not quite being good enough, smart enough, able enough. It sucks.But you don’t need to feel that way! I’ve created a handy checklist. If you can do all (or even most) of the things on this list, you shouldn’t see yourself as a junior developer.Yes yes, you still have a lot to learn.But guess what? That’s ALWAYS true. Forever and ever. You’ll never run out of things to learn, because every night when you go to sleep somebody is busy inventing new things. So don’t sweat it.The listYou’ve programmed in more than one language and have some opinions about why you like one vs the other.You’ve had to maintain your code and someone else’s on a live project for over 6 months.You’ve worked on a project you (...)

#psychology #software #imposter-syndrome #software-development #careers

The Signal
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50+ High Growth Companies to Launch Your Career WithOne of the most challenging aspects of growing up is figuring out how and where to spend your time. The world of “career advice” is incredibly noisy. Professors, friends, parents, irrelevant medium authors — everyone is telling you what you should and should not be doing with your life.The good news → it is your #life! You get to decide how and where to spend your time. The other goods news is that the world is increasingly massive…and there are so many exciting things you could do…infinite places you could go and learn…But why do we graduate from college and settle for conventional #jobs that do not unlock our real potential? — Kevin Hartzbody[data-twttr-rendered="true"] background-color: transparent;.twitter-tweet margin: auto !important;there are (...)

#career-advice #careers #startup

What It Takes to Become an Intern at #tesla
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Photo courtesy of TeslaWhat could be more uplifting and exciting than watching rising souls pursue their dream career?!Tesla, the famous electric car company headquartered in Fremont, CA, may be an example of where this is taking place. They currently hire interns from universities all around the country throughout the year. But they do have high standards!In order to find out more about what they are looking for in a new intern, I was able to speak directly with three current interns about their college experiences and what they think allowed them to become an intern at Tesla. These three interns are Jennifer, Chad, and Dillon.JenniferJennifer is a mechanical engineering student at the University of North Dakota, who currently interns in the manufacturing side at Tesla. This is already (...)

#internships #intern-at-tesla #tech-intern #careers

The best 19 proven steps how to get a job
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how to get a tech job in 19 proven stepsBe ready to climb your next mountainTL;DR; Find the job, get obsessed, get an offer, begin the journey.Before you consider a job in any company, big or small, you need to make clear for yourself what you really want in your personal and professional life. Understand what you are valuing and what expectations you’ve got from your future employee. I need to be true to yourself on why you are changing the job and why not to try and improve the existing one. Please have all “Whys” answered.It may be even one of those prominent ones like Amazon, Google, Netflix, Facebook or Microsoft (including GitHub and LinkedIn). It does not really matter for me. The only assumptions I am making are that it is extremely hard to get into a company and the bar is pretty (...)

#job-hunting #programming #interview #how-to-get-a-tech-job #careers

The Problem with a Comfortable Career
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A framework for assesssing and re-evaluating things when your work life is just a little too easy.Have you ever found yourself worrying that your life or career was a little too comfortable? And then maybe immediately felt guilty because of how privileged a problem that is to be able to have?This post is for anyone who — like me — has ever asked themselves the question: is everything just a little too easy?I drafted this piece from the 13th floor of a Bangkok condo looking out over a beautiful, modern and foreign city. I had spent the previous week in Chiang Mai hiking mountains, exploring temples, and eating some of the most delicious — and cheapest — food I could imagine.The view from where I drafted this post. Bangkok, Thailand.From Thailand I flew back to Cape Town — arguably one of the best (...)

#entrepreneurship #careers #work-life-balance #life-lessons #personal-development

These Skills Separate the Best Back-End Developers from the Rest
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Behind every great website or application stands a great #development team. Unfortunately, the laurels and applause are so often directed at just one-half of such teams — the developers behind the customer-facing front-end. But like a car without an engine or a painting without a canvas, a solution can’t be delivered to a client without everything being perfect on the interior.And on what some might see as the less glamorous (although traditionally better paid) side of the development equation sits the humble back-end developer.Back-end developer basicsBack-end developers control the parts of a website that a normal user will never see. They look after the ‘server side’ of the equation, leaving the ‘client side’ — the bit that the user actually experiences — to the front-end developers. The key (...)

#backend #careers #tech #web-development