Tweet I have lived through Silicon Valley’s 1999 bubble and its recovery in 2005-2008. Now it’s 2011 and for the third time, I can see the sign that Silicon Valley is booming again. And when I say “sign”, I mean it literally. This is what Silicon Valley looks like at the moment:   Those signs [...]

Tweet My post on how to land a job at Google hit a nerve: 10,000 people read it in a day. I posted it on Hacker News, where it got reasonably popular, got picked up by Reddit, and for some reason became the most controversial item of the day — although it wasn’t meant to [...]

Tweet It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job, not talk about it. It’s 2010 and that idea has not graduated to mainstream yet. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on [...]

Tweet As a CS student, why do you write a program? To learn data structures, good coding practices and algorithms. Great. Now try this: write an iPhone app and put it on the App Store. What will you learn? Marketing, customer support, economics, PR. By the time you graduate with your CS degree, that little [...]

Tweet I was representing our company at an event at the Berkeley campus last month and I got to interact with a lot of students about to graduate. In reality, the hot topic was finding jobs in this economy. I always happily give resume advice and generally try to help answer the many questions about [...]