data-driven approach to launching your career

Talk Specially Designed for Ohio State University Students

Sept 2015

Viral KadakiaSam Reid

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Data Driven Approach to Launching your Career

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



VP of Engineering

2013

Software Engineer2000

Engineering Lead2008

University of Texas, Austin

Class of 2000

Marissa MayerYahoo!



VP of Engineering2012

Engineer2005

Software Engineer

2004

Carnegie Mellon University

Class of 2004


VP, Search & UX2005

CEO2012

Software Engineer1999

Stanford UniversityClass of 1999



Marissa MayerYahoo!



Career✔Job

Didn’t get a jobFound a career launching

employer

I-Missed-The-Boat Syndrome

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)

How do you discover these career launching companies?

1. Discover

How do you tell if it is a career launching company?

2. Evaluate

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

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

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Trivia

Lets talk technology

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?

Logical architecture

Collect user dataData ingestion User analytics

Insights generation Recommendation engine

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

IBMInternational Business Machines

IBM CorpIBM Corporation

IBM inc.…

Entity De-duplication

OSUOhio State Univ

Ohio State University

IBM

Ohio State University

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

Company Data

Machine learning challenges

Example

Jobs

Connections

User behaviors

User preferences

Skills

Recommendations

Recommendations

– Square, Dropbox (high-growth)– Facebook, Google (Brands)– …

Company Data

Personalized recommendations

User preference

sUser

analytics

Example

So, is this still the best way to find the right employer that will launch your

career?

Our members come from over 445 campuses

Bootstrap

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

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

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

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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Questions?