data driven approach to launching your career
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Talk Specially Designed for Michigan Students
Sept 2015
Viral KadakiaSam Reid
by
Data Driven Approach to Launching your Career
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1. Candidates from 500+ universities are using 500 Miles. Get the free app : http://ios.500miles.io : http://android.500miles.io
2. Invite your friends & colleagues to download the app. They will thank you for it
3. Employers are looking for interns and full-time graduates. Apply to roles from “NOW HIRING on 500 Miles” stack. Candidates from MIT, Ohio State, Georgia Tech & UIUC are already in interviews
4. Join the conversation on facebook by joining the “Tech Jobs & Internships” group
Launch your Career!
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Mohak ShroffLinkedIn
What do these industry leaders have in common?
Marissa MayerYahoo!
Aditya AgarwalDropbox
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Mohak ShroffLinkedIn
What do these industry leaders have in common?
VP of Engineering
2013
Software Engineer2000
Engineering Lead2008
University of Texas, Austin
Class of 2000
Marissa MayerYahoo!
Aditya AgarwalDropbox
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What do these industry leaders have in common?
VP of Engineering2012
Engineer2005
Software Engineer
2004
Carnegie Mellon University
Class of 2004
Aditya AgarwalDropbox
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VP, Search & UX2005
CEO2012
Software Engineer1999
Stanford UniversityClass of 1999
What do these industry leaders have in common?
Mohak ShroffLinkedIn
Marissa MayerYahoo!
Aditya AgarwalDropbox
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What do these industry leaders have in common?
Career✔Job
Didn’t get a jobFound a career launching
employer
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I-Missed-The-Boat Syndrome
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What does Computer Science teach us about picking the right career? (Hint: Hill Climbing
Algorithm)
You could start here
…or here“People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new parts of the terrain, and when you find the highest hill, don’t waste any
more time on the current hill no matter how much better the next step up might appear.”- Chris Dixon (General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz)
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How do you discover these career launching companies?
1. Discover
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How do you tell if it is a career launching company?
2. Evaluate
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Before we put machines to work, lets first ask us humanoids this question? ☺
Is it a company that is:• Solving a critical problem in a huge market with an
innovative solution• Has hired a top-notch team from well known companies• ..and great universities• Team that is growing fast and one that is paid well• Hypothesis that investors believe in are willing to fund• Business with a lot of customer traction already• ……
2. Evaluate
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1. Which tech company with hired the most talent in the past year?2. Which employer did Airbnb hire the most from?
3. Alums of which university has Spotify hired the most?
4. How much more does Square pay to its engineers as compared to others?5. Which tech company sponsored the most H-1B visas last year?
Sept 2015
http://ios.500miles.iohttp://android.500miles.io
Trivia
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Lets talk technology
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How do we learn more about users?
What powers the app?
How do we optimize our users’ experience?
How do we get all the data needed?
How should this information be presented?
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Logical architecture
Collect user dataData ingestion User analytics
Insights generation Recommendation engine
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Big Data ingestion
Collect user dataNews feed
Proprietary data
Public data / API
Social network
Entity extraction
Entity de-duplication
Relationship mappers
Big DB
Processing engine
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IBMInternational Business Machines
IBM CorpIBM Corporation
IBM inc.…
Entity De-duplication
MichiganUniv of Michigan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM
University of Michigan
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GoogleFacebookMicrosoftAppleLinkedIn, etc
SquareDropboxSprinklr, etc
ClouderaDropboxUberSurveyMonkey, etc
TwitterTableauBox, etc
Brands - Large cap
Brands - High growth
Heavily funded
Recent IPOs
ClouderaSalesforceBoxAmazon, etc
UberLyft, etc
Enterprise, Cloud Consumer500 Miles, etc
Early stage
Classification
23
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Company Data
Machine learning challenges
Example
Jobs
Connections
User behaviors
User preferences
Skills
Recommendations
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Recommendations
– Square, Dropbox (high-growth)– Facebook, Google (Brands)– …
Company Data
Personalized recommendations
User preference
sUser
analytics
Example
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So, is this still the best way to find the right employer that will launch your
career?
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Our members come from over 500 campuses
Bootstrap
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Egnyte at a glance• Pre-IPO company with $62M in funding• 200+ employees in Mountain View, CA (heart of Silicon Valley) & Poland• Looking for interns and full-time graduates• Winning over Dropbox & Box in the enterprise space• Millions of paid users and thousands of customers including IKEA, Home
Depot, AppDynamics, Aerohive Networks, Red Bull and others
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ThoughtSpot at a glance• ThoughtSpot’s vision to become Google for Business Knowledge• Team of top industry veterans including co-founder of Nutanix (Pre-IPO),
technical leaders from Google, Amazon, Microsoft (Research) and Oracle• Scale-out architecture supports searching 10+ billion records in a matter of
ms• Series B funded company ($40M) and 95+ employees in Palo Alto, CA • Looking for interns and full-time graduates
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Chartcube at a glance• Chartcube’s product offers compelling data visualizations and collaboration
experiences from a complex excel spreadsheet in a mobile app• Team of industry veterans from eBay, Apple, McKinsey and Sun. • Backed by investors of Nest, Lithium and Zuora• Looking for interns and full-time graduates
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500 Miles Coding Challenge
Email your answers to [email protected]
1. Write a function to return top-K elements in an array. Ordering is not needed. Assume large data sets. (Extra credit: What is the time complexity and space complexity of your
solution?)
2. Write a function to find the minimum number of coins to make change. Input is the actual amount to make change for, and the denomination set itself.Example: function(77, {1, 5, 10, 25, 50}) = 4
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Responsibilities• Evangelist & Marketing champion for the campus• Speak at university forums on this topic• Support students and answer questions• Channel feedback & suggest product improvements
Requirements• CS/ECE background• Well spoken & committed (3-5 hours/week)• Leadership experience (preferred)• Interested in data mining & machine learning (preferred)
Campus Lead
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Perks• Early access to 500 Miles products• Access to 500 Miles dataset for university projects• First dibs at internship and full-time openings• Interact with team and ambassadors from other colleges• Referrals & recommendations for positions at other Tech employers• Recognition from the company
Process• Come talk to us today or drop us an email [email protected]• In a few sentences, explain how you would support students and get the
word out
Campus Lead
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Questions?