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Getting a Job in CS

Micah Chasteen

IntroductionGetting StartedResumes Interviews

Phone In-Person <A_Lot_More_Stuff_Goes_Here>

Offers

Outline

Why Set Goals Give Confidence Demystify The Process Provide Career Options Because People Asked Me To

Introduction

Disclaimer May Be Too Intense For Some

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Introduction

If you have time… Projects Internships Research Papers Conferences Contests

Getting Started

Start Studying/RefreshingApply Everywhere

Even Google (When?) Experience and Future

Opportunities

Use Job SitesNetwork

LinkedIn and Alumni

Getting Started

If you have time… Start Your Resume Add Details As They Happens Always Keep It Up To Date

Resumes

Tailor For The PositionResume Paper1 Page (B.S.) || 2 Page (M.S.)Clean, Organized StylePromote Yourself ReasonablyMultiple Formats (PDF, DOC, TXT)

4 Second Rule

Resumes

Layout Name Contact Objective Experience Skills Education (GPA) Projects

Clubs/Activities Interests Reference

Requests QRC/Link To

Personal Site

Resumes

Must Haves C++ or Java

Hot Skills Mobile Development Cloud Computing

Resumes

Electronic ResumeMore DetailsEasy, Professional NameReliable, AccessibleElegant, Properly Codedhttp://resume.csgradbox.com

Personal Website

Actively Review Social MediaReduce Your Social TimeYou Get Out What You Put InDon’t Take The First JobAim For Concurrent OffersThis Can Be A Long ProcessRecruiters Want Money (Not You)

Reminders/Suggestions

HR QuestionsProject Questions (Excel)Be Polite And PersonableBe Confident and Don’t Give UpHave Questions For ThemDo At Least One Mock Interview (One For Each Kind)

Interviewing

Find Secluded AreaUse Landline w/Hands FreeNo Noises or DistractionsKeep Resume In SightNo Visual Contact

Phone

Be EarlyDress Nice But AppropriateBe Rested and RelaxedTurn Cell Phone OFFDon’t FidgetTake Extra Resumes

In Person

Why Are Manhole Covers Round?How Many Golf Balls Can Fit On A School Bus?

How Many Piano Tuners Are There In Nashville?

How Do They Make M&Ms?

Riddles

This a game for two playersYou have a flat, rectangular tableEach player lays a quarter on the table somewhere that touches no other quarter

The loser is the first person who cannot place a quarter

What is your strategy if you go first?

Question

StressConfidenceKnowledgeQuick ThinkingExplainingProblem Solving

Coding Interviews

Space ComplexityGrowth Complexity

Asymptotic Notation Best, Average, And Worst Case

Coding Interviews

Practice On A WhiteboardDo Not Look Anything UpTalk Out LoudTime Yourself

Coding Interviews

Programming Contests Top Coder ACM ICPC Code Sprint

Interview Sites Glass Door Career Cup

Coding Interviews

RecursionEncryptionEncodingParallel Processing

Deadlock, Livelock Monitors, Semaphors, Locks Process VS. Thread Distributive Computing

Concepts

Traveling SalespersonKnapsack (0/1)Shortest Path

Must-Know Problems

C++ Size of Data Types IEEE Format Abstract Classes Overloaded Operators Multiple Inheritance ST Library

Language Specific

Java Final, Finalize, Finally Inheritance and Interface Pass-By-Value or Pass-By-Reference Synchronization Garbage Collection

Language Specific

Sorting Heap Sort Quick Sort Merge Sort

Searching Min, Max Kth Least

Basic Algorithms

Design Patterns What Are These?

Test Cases Practice Testing Programs

S.E. Questions

You have an array with 999 locations, and each location contains a unique integer with a value from 1 to 1000 (inclusive)

How do you find the missing number?

Question

Strings Reverse (Words) Remove Characters Matching Substrings

Linked Lists Reverse (Singly-Linked) Swap Pairs (Singly-Linked) Delete (Circular)

Data Structures/ADT

Write a program to find the Mth-to-last element in a singly linked list given only the head of the list.

Question

Write a program to determine if a singly linked list is cyclic.

If it is then return the node that begins the new cycle.

Question

Queue Make From Stacks

Heap Priority Queue

Hash Table Ordered Hash Table

Data Structures/ADT

Trees Binary Tree Binary Search Tree 2-3 Tree and 2-3-4 Tree Red-Black Tree or AVL Tree

Pre/In/Post Order Traversal

Data Structures/ADT

Graphs Breadth First Search Depth First Search Dijkstra’s Shortest Path A* Search Minimal Spanning Tree

Data Structures/ADT

Amazon Streaming ServiceAmazon Recommendation Service

Design Questions

Create a class-based weapon schema

Question

Self-Testing Furniture Class

Question

Pivot of Rotated ArrayConway’s Game of LifeScrabble TilesBoggle SolverSearch Continuous Floating Point F(X)

Fibonacci Sequence (Memoized)Sum of Array Pairs

Coding Questions

Write a program that prints out all the valid words on a Boggle board.

Question

Write a program to determine if an array has a pair of numbers that equal a given sum.

Question

Read EverythingLook At The BenefitsConsider PerksTravel PercentageRelocationResearch Location (CoL)

Comparing Offers

Work EnvironmentAbility To AdvanceExperience Gained Is It What You Want To Do?

Comparing Offers

Call ThemBe As Polite As PossibleKeep Contact Information

Declining Offers

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Getting a Job in CS

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