Roadmap for landing a role at a Tech Startup

1. ROADMAP FOR LANDING A ROLE
AT A TECH-STARTUP

2. Panji Gautama
ilkom UGM 2006 & 2012
Game x Mobile App Developer
employee #0 @ Kudo
github.com/rhapsodixx

3. Grab R&D Centre
provide marketplace access and payment points with access to
600K+
AGENTS
800K+
DRIVERS
3Mn+
RIDERS
500+
TOWNS

4. WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK AT
A STARTUP ?

6. VALUES

7. #1
PASSION FOR IMPACT

8. #2
MOVE FAST

9. #3
INTEGRITY AND RESPECT

10. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME
SOFTWARE ENGINEER

11. Are you up for learning new things for most of your career?
Are you able to cope with pressure and frustration?
Do you enjoy problem-solving or you find it a burden?
Are you willing to be disciplined about your work and ways of working?
Are you a creator and in general passionate about building things?

12. CULTIVATING A PROBLEM-SOLVING MINDSET
beyond the gpa
classes are important
google “google engineering interview questions”
Big O, binary search tree, reverse lookup, etc

15. SET YOUR CAREER GOALS
https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

16. https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

17. https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

18. 📚 Study guide and introduction to the modern front end stack

19. TECHNOLOGY STACK

20. MONITORING, DATA & ANALYTICS

21. LEARN THE TRICKS BEHIND THE MAGIC
public Sequence<Integer> magic(Sequence<Integer> numbers)
{
return numbers.map(λ(i, i + 1));
}
public List<Integer> magic(List<Integer> numbers)
{
List<Integer> result = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (Integer number : numbers) {
result.add(number + 1);
}
return result;
}

24. TRY TO BE THE RIGHT KIND OF SMART
testing & security
how to deploy & monitor
improve writing skills

25. being a software engineer is so much more
than just ‘coding’

26. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
community meetup, tech talk, coding class, retrospective,
post mortem, coding review, 1:1 … and many, many more

27. EXCITEMENT !

28. THANK YOU !
and .. we are hiring ;)
https://kudo.co.id/karir