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How to Balance Hustling and Family

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Our guest blogger today is Carter Rabasa.  Carter is a husband, father of two beautiful daughters, part-time developer and full-time evangelist for @Twilio.  He lives in Seattle and you can follow up on Twitter @CarterRabasa.

TL;DR – My happiness with my job (the company I work for, the people I work with, the things I do) is so high that it makes me a happier person. This is something that my family can feel on a daily basis. It more than offsets some of the challenges with this non-traditional job. Read More

Transition from Being a Big Company Employee to Working at a Startup (Part 2 of 2)

Career Transition, Complete Index, Managing Your Job search, Networking, PreparationMei Lu, CEO, Jobfully.comLeave a comment

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a talk by Bryan Starbuck (on Twitter @BryanStarbuck), a serial tech startup entrepreneur and a former Microsoft Engineering Manager, about how to transition from a big company (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc.) employee to a career at startups.  Bryan provided great insights and practical advice for people interested in this process.  I’d like to share with you a summary of this talk and the main takeaways. Read More

Transition from Being a Big Company Employee to Working at a Startup (Part 1 of 2)

Career Transition, Complete Index, Managing Your Job search, Networking, PreparationMei Lu, CEO, Jobfully.comLeave a comment

Last week I attended a talk by Bryan Starbuck (on Twitter @BryanStarbuck), a serial tech startup entrepreneur and a former Microsoft Engineering Manager, about how to transition from a big company (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc.) employee to a career at startups.  Bryan provided great insights and practical advice for people interested in this process.  I’d like to share with you a summary of this talk and the main takeaways. Read More

What I Learned from 50+ Mock Interviews

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Today’s guest blog is by Bilal Aslam, who recently launched WiserProfile, giving you personalized feedback on your LinkedIn profile.  Bilal is a technical visionary with 5 years of experience at Microsoft, currently an engineer on Windows Azure. Recently, Bilal was the VP of Engineering at emptyspaceads, a seed-stage startup. His passions include data mining and distributed systems.

One of my friends Gayle runs an awesome company (CareerCup) which provides phone and in-person technical interview coaching for A-list companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon. I have been doing mock interviews for CareerCup for more than two years now. While I don’t remember the exact number of mock interviews I have done, it’s in the neighborhood of 50+. Candidates have run the gamut from hopeless to brilliant. Read More