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= Hiring timeline =

== Palantir ==

||<rowbgcolor="lightblue" rowstyle="font-weight: bold"> 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, [[http://n.favrefelix.free.fr/site/| 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
  * 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?
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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