I just graduated in May. I paid some guy $800 to teach me how to get into FAANG. He showed me how to copy and paste generic messages online for referrals and told me to make up stuff, linked me to some YouTube videos for technical videos then ghosted me. Another guy set me up with a week by week tutoring session. He was late all the time. Paid him $100 per session and it helped me for a little while but then he bailed on me because he had other commitments. Ok fair enough. It's difficult to find a mentor. I'm down to my last couple of dollars before I have to go work at Albertsons as a cashier. Oh well. Where can I go to actually find professionals who will mentor me on breaking into the tech field? Are any of you guys interested ? I'm pretty broke at this point though lol, but I wouldn't mind giving you a significant bonus when I get a job.
I hope this is a troll post- otherwise would say this is what’s wrong with instagram / YouTube gurus
No, I'm getting handled out here my dude. I guess I'll omit the last part of my post where I ask for help.
Work at Albertson's and internal transfer to their software dept
Would be a dream come true.
Uhh typically you shouldn’t have to pay a mentor. Just call it a career coach or something
Yeah that's what they called themselves. Career coaches. But in reality they were just telling me what to do and say to fit the part. Which I guess is alright. But at this point I might make more money being a career coach myself since I've basically learned the entire grift from my experiences.
Career coach can help you with résumé and teach you how to articulate problems and solutions when answering interview questions but yes you must have the inherent curiosity and drive to get into the field. Like someone else said 90% of which you need is already on the company websites or other places like blinds or Quora. When I interviewed successfully at saying I knew more about their hiring process and the company than any of the people I interviewed with. Do you think you could say the same ?
First, I would do udacity. They have professional education programs. Second, don’t think about get into FAANG for your first job.
Not even Amazon?
- top school - good at LC - good internship experience - good personal projects I’d say you need at least 3 of the 4 to have a shot (or some other good reason they should hire you). If not, there are plenty of random software companies desperate for anyone who can write a for loop. Get some experience and work on your resume for a couple years.
Go and learn Python and then leetcode. Then make up some stuff on resume and apply to a million companies. Get your foot in the door and then seek a mentor.
I know python and SQL. I just don't have any projects. Not sure what kind of project to pursue.
Think what projects your peers/friends did and discuss their methodology and working and results and add it to resume. No one checks - you just need to know. Or copy some projects from internet and think in detail about what questions will you ask if you wanted to know more about it, prepare answers for that and that should be ok. Reach to your alum network on linkedin
Why do you need a mentor at all? There is so so much useful info on Blind and outside on how to prep for tech interviews and grow. And again, you have to be a self-starter at least to a certain extent to get into FAANG and, most importantly, stay there, so gotta develop skills.
I think it would be nice for someone to give me direction. That's kind of what I lack, big time..mostly in terms of projects and career choices.
Agree but also disagree. You get what you pay for (usually). Find a good resume/interview coach and it will definitely make a difference. Not to say that you can’t find good advice or help here or on Quora. I did from both but interview coach put me over the top.
Just coming out of school you better have an amazing GPA and or school and or life experiences (preferably all 3) if you want to have a good chance. Otherwise you’ll need to break into another company or field. Build your resume there and the switch to tech.
I have 3 years retail management experience and a 3.7GPA but no projects.
First of all these people you seek out are not your “mentors”. A mentor is someone you build a relationship with organically. Not by paying them for the hour. You have just purchased a person’s time for money so that they can teach you something - that’s not a mentor. A mentor is someone who is a more holistic professional (and overall) guide. You’re insulting the term “mentor” by calling these people mentors. You’ve just paid for a service. A bad service. That’s all. If you don’t want it get scammed, reach out to people you already know who work in tech. Have an informal conversation with them. They’ll have better advice to offer to you. Also paid career coaching is a scam for the most part. Others can give you basic guidance. You need to design your own path.
Not if you find the right one.
Sorry. There’s no such thing as right one when it comes to online “gurus”. They can help you achieve short term shallow goals like “getting into a FAANG”. They won’t help you with long term career planning. They can’t even if they want to. For that, one needs to know the person - as a whole. Not as a paying client. What people don’t understand these days is the value of building relationships with people who can truly guide you. And people can truly guide you only if they truly know you as a professional and as a person. Otherwise you’ll get some advice which may be somewhat useful - and tons of advice which is not useful at all.
I wouldn’t trust anyone claiming to “teach you how to get into FAANG”. All the information needed to get into any tech company is available in public domain free of cost. All it requires is discipline and a bit of hard work. Blind is an excellent resource as well (if you can filter out the noise). PS: Everything I typed is assuming this is a non-troll post.
What do you guys typically look up to learn to get into this? I'm relatively new.
You do know there is life outside FAANG right ???
Me. My prices are $1,000.
Sent ;)