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Hiring timeline

Palantir

Date

T-delta

T-accumulated

Event

2018-10-29

-

-

Applied

2018-11-08

10 days

10 days

Zack reached out

2018-11-10

2 days

2 weeks

First phone call with Zack

2018-11-14

4 days

2.5 weeks

Sinclaire schedules a chat with an SRE

2018-11-20

6 days

3 weeks

Missed call on Palantir's end

2018-11-28

1 week

1 month

Video interview with Chase, positive feedback to schedule on-site interview

2018-12-06

1 week

5.5 weeks

On-site interview

2018-12-12

1 week

6.5 weeks

Feedback from on-site interviews via Zack

2018-12-13

1 day

6.5 weeks

Call with Zack, can't do Palo Alto interviews for about a month due to Christmas shutdown

2018-12-22

10 days

8 weeks

Confirmed that Palantir wants to proceed

2019-01-08

2.5 weeks

10 weeks

Start planning travel and interviews

2019-01-16

1 week

11 weeks

Locked in interview date

2019-02-06

3 weeks

14.5 wks / 3mon+1wk

(Scheduled) Interview date in Palo Alto

Resume stuff

  • LaTeX is a nice way to do it.
  • Google?
    • Interview advice: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/my-job-interview-at-google/

    • What they want: http://www.google.com/jobs/joininggoogle/resume/index.html

  • Yale has some US-style resume examples, they're apparently always a single page: http://ucs.yalecollege.yale.edu/sites/default/files/AlumniSampleResumes.pdf

  • Some templates
    • http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/

    • http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/latexres/

    • http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2008/10/latex-resume-examples/

    • http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/resume-writing-example-latex-template-linux-curriculum-vitae-professional-cv-layout-format-text-p54/

    • From the above, Nicolas Favre-FĂ©lix

      • Hm, this one was nicer for some reason, not the same: http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/files/p54-resume/examples/cv-nicolas-favre-felix.en.pdf

    • http://www.davidgrant.ca/latex_resume_template

  • Some LaTeX resources: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/latex.html

  • Draft it up in txt, worry about latex later: http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/resume.ascii

And some more links:

  • http://tkcs-collins.com/truman/latex/list_examp.shtml

  • http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/latex/list_examples.pdf

  • http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#tweaklist

What's the time mr wolf?

california      07:16
here            24:16


17hrs behind

1800 here == 0100 there
2600 here == 0900 there
0900 here == 
3300 here == 1600 there

9to5 here == 1600to2400 there

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Scribbling about self

Generic stuff

  • Sysadmin experience
  • Linux skillz
  • Scripting automation skillz
  • Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
  • Teamwork
  • Communication skills

Senior Linux Systems Engineer role

* Building a server fleet across regions * AWS and cloud, KVM, Docker, etc * CI/CD and DevOps * Networking * Automation (Puppet) * Bash Scripting * Python/Ruby * git/svn * Analysis for evaluation of projects and products * Windows a little bit * Low-latency infrastructure

Nice to have

* Root cause analysis * Dealing with different depts * Teamwork * Communication skills * Support and research for complex problems * Critical thinking under pressure * Like learning new things

Optiver

General job descriptions: http://www.optiver.com/sydney/careersoptiver/experts/

Linux Performance Engineer: http://alescoprod.talent2payroll.com/pls/aparbtpp/WK8127$APP.draw_attachments?P_VACANCY_REF_NO=175&P_CALLER_URL=WK8127ZZDOLLARZZAPP.QueryListZZQMARKZZZ_VACANCY_CAT=ITZZAMPZZZ_ORDER_BY=1

  • Tuning
  • Open source
  • Ideas -> Real concepts

  • Tweaking and testing

Responsibilities

  • Optimise stuff
  • Get hardware
  • Run scientific tests and benchmarks

Need

  • Coding
  • Analytic approach to collect data, process, make conclusions
  • Unix systems
  • Communications
  • Experience in high-performance environment
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