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I recently interviewed for L7 EM at Google and had 4 great interviews and one not so great system design. I submitted external referrals all of which gave great feedback. The recruiter said the next step is team match/interviews and then the HC. Anyone in a similar situation? What was the result? Google
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Follow your passion, be good at what you do, practice and pay attention to soft skills and you will do well.
Do it just for the money and best case you will be well off and miserable, worst case you will not even have the money.
Find the area of stem that speaks to you the most and go there. Personally- I think a degree and the right connections are the key ingredients for success. I learned everything on the job, but my degree got me in the door. And they professional connections and personal integrity is what has carried me thru my career.
Agreed! This is a sensible perspective. Ensuring that you’re fairly compensated and have good quality of life and work life balance is key
It varies widely based on industry, skillset and location.
What are you trying to accomplish?
There is always a trade off between risk and reward. The highly successful entrepreneurs are very intelligent but also very lucky. For each one who succeeds, there are probably 1,000 equally intelligent ones who only achieve mediocre success. It truly is often winner takes all. Probably closer to a lottery than those who succeed will admit. Only you can decide how much risk you can take.
You can take less risk and work for someone. You will still earn in the top 1% of US workers doing something critical but kind of boring, like being an SAP ERP consultant. You can make more, but there are fewer jobs, doing something like machine learning/AI data scientist or crypto smart contract developer.
Also, in terms of entrepreneurial opportunity, there's still a lot of land to grab in crypto. I would advise working for the good guys in defi because the CBDCs are 1984ish, but that's just me.
Create a successful tech startup company
When I graduated I created a company in my own name (slightly changed up and modified) and was successful for a couple years! Then changed over to the industry side