5. Are tech jobs on decline?
Impact of automation on tech?
Has tech industry saturated?
Why many engineers are not getting jobs?
Why companies are not finding right engineers?
6. Change is the only constant thing in the world!
Innovation feeds innovation
Rate of innovation is growing exponentially
7. I strongly recommend watching this Ted Talk and reading this book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BltRufe5kkI
Abundance is our future | Peter Diamandis
10. Top and high paying tech job
• Data Scientists
• Data Engineer
• Mobile app developers
• Front end developers
• Full stack developers
• Services - Java, C#, Node.js
• Cyber security
• DevOps engineer
• Designers
• Product managers or program managers
11. Roles in tech
• Developer – apps, full stack, database, services
• Program Manager/ Product manager
• Design User experience
• DevOps engineer
• QA / Tester
• Data engineer
• Analysts , Data scientist
• Operations
• Sales and marketing
• Localization
• Technical documentation
15. Soft skill
• Team player
• Communication & collaboration
• Group discussion skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Presentation skills
• Writing skills
• Leadership skills
• EQ – Emotional quotient
• Sense of humor
16. Developing soft skills
• Organize events
• Create clubs – ex Toast master
• Play team sports
• Develop hobbies
• Learn to control temperament – yoga/meditation
• Learnread about human behavior and psychology
• Group discussions
• Debates
• Write papers articles
• Give presentations
• Teach your juniors or in a near by school
• Sharing and receiving critical feedback
• Handling crucial conversation
20. World has lot of challenges to solve!
For many of these challenges there are at least a
few startups working to solve them
But there are still plenty more no one is working
on
21. • You will learn a lot!
• Don’t worry about failure, it is a badge of honor
• Very good support and ecosystem for startups
• If you can afford it, go for it!
• If you are searching for a job, try to build something in parallel
• Freelancing
Entrepreneurship gives you unmatched experience
23. 7 Stages
1. Get the basics right
2. Practice problem solving
3. Practice programming – on paper & online
4. Build something on GitHub or contribute to OSS
5. Mock interviews
6. Prepare good resume
7. Start applying, reach out for help
24. #1 Getting the basics right!
• Data structures
• Algorithms
• Operating system
• Memory management
• Multi-threading, multi-processing
• IPC – Inter process communication
• System Design
• Networking
• Expert in one programming language
25. Can you name the university which is open
24/7? Charges no fees, you can lean as many
times as you want, learn whenever you want
and from any place?
26. Tushar Roy - Coding Made Simple
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZLJf_R2sWyUtXSKiKlyvAw
Mycodeschool
https://www.youtube.com/user/mycodeschool/videos
HackerRank
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOf7UPMHBjAavgD0Qw5q5ww
MIT OpenCourseWare
https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT/videos
Stanford
https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity/videos
Studio IIT Bombay
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3lp1Pk33sziERUwvmiNBqQ/videos
Khan Academy Computing
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCye0TMXdb_zdfvVgXA0XtkA/videos
33. Also practice coding on paper and board
• Clean code
• Modular code
• Comments
• Block diagrams
• In less than 3 mins, most people should understand it
• Time complexity - Big O
34. #4. Build something, Companies hire creators!
• Build something of your own
• Contribute to OSS
• Build mobile apps for your college
• Apps for community
35. #5. Mock interviews
• Learn and conduct in college
• Seek help from alumni
• Watch on YouTube
#6. Good resume
• One page
• Clear objective – what and what kind of job you want
• Write your contributions to projects
• Don’t put anything that you can’t explain
• Links to GitHub, apps or websites you have built
• Online Programming competition scores
36. #7. Reaching out
• Start applying through job sites
• Reach out for referrals
• Walk-ins
• If you have low score/grades, start with small company
• Once you gain experience, your grades doesn’t matter