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
From the above, Nicolas Favre-Félix
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
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:
What's the time mr wolf?
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Attachments:
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