Lauren Tan - React Data Team Engineer at Facebook

Junior to Senior with David Guttman

Talking Points:

• Assessing Goals
• Thinking Beyond Code
• Interviewing Processes
• Core Skills & Technical Skills
• Find Right People For A Team
• Searching For A Job
• Exciting Tech Developments

Quotable Quotes:

• “Think more than just about code.” - LT
• “Your seniority is often correlated to the effect you have outside of just yourself.” -DG
• “There are different approaches to interviewing and evaluating people.” - LT
• “I don’t like calling certain skills ‘soft’ skills. I like calling them ‘core’ skills.” - LT
• “The technical interview is a very artificial process.” - LT
• “Every manager has a different process to which questions they ask.” - LT
• “Core skills don’t need to be acquired from having 10 years experience, but rather can be exhibited by junior engineers.” - LT
• “Technical and Core skills are kind of like left and right shoes. You need both of them.” - DG
• "Don't copy FANG's interview practices but rather think about the person that your company needs to be successful." - LT

Notes:
Lauren’s Blog:
https://www.no.lol
Lauren’s Twitter:
https://twitter.com/sugarpirate_
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