With the summer wrapping up (no! say it ain't so!), I'm starting to put together my Fall speaking schedule. And I've got a few last summer talks coming up too. Don't see your university or city here? Sign up here to be notified when I'm coming to your city.
Want to book me? Or help me coordinate a talk in your city? Or host one of my talks at your company (it's a perfect recruiting opportunity)? Email me at gayle <at> careercup.com. The blurb / bio for my Cracking the Coding Interview talk is below.
Seattle -- Monday Aug 13th - Wednesday 15th
Cracking the Coding Interview: Advice and Strategies for Software Engineers and PMs
My Tuesday, Aug 14th talk at TheEasy sold out in just two hours (140 tickets), so then I opened up a Monday, Aug 13th talk (140 tickets). That took another 22 hours to sell out. So now I have a third one (Wed Aug 15th at Amazon). As of a few hours into sales, half of the tickets are already gone. Get 'em while you can.
If the last event sells out (which is looking very likely), that'll be over 440 people attending total.
San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley Code Camp) -- Oct 6, 2012
This is an awesome event featuring a bunch of great speakers (and 1000+ attendees). Come for my talk, or several talks. Register for Silicon Valley Code Camp first, and then select "interested" here.
UC Irvine -- Wed Oct 24, 2012
I will be speaking for the second time at UC Irvine around 12pm on Wed Oct 24th. If you're a CS student, you should get the notification a week or two before the talk. But for now, you can add that to your calendar.
Book Me!
Don't see your university or city here? Sign up here to be notified when I'm coming to your city.
Want to book me? Or help me coordinate a talk in your city? Or host one of my talks at your company (it's a perfect recruiting opportunity)? Email me at gayle <at> careercup.com. The blurb / bio for my Cracking the Coding Interview talk is below.
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How to Crack the Coding Interview: Skills and Strategies for Software Engineers and PMs
Speaker: Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Founder / CEO of CareerCup.com and Author of Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume.
CS interviews are a different breed from other interviews and, as such, require specialized skills and techniques. This talk will teach you how to prepare for coding and PM interviews, what top companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft really look for, and how to tackle the toughest programming and algorithm problems. This is not a fluffy be-your-best talk; it is deeply technical and will discuss specific algorithm and data structure topics.
Signed copies of McDowell's Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume will be on sale after the talk. Cracking the Coding Interview is the #1 interview prep book for software engineers and the 5th edition, just released in Aug 2011, is nearly double the size of the previous edition (see changes). The Google Resume is a broader book to teach people what they need to do to position themselves for a tech job, starting from early in college up through the offer and job performance itself. The books are rated as 5 and 4.5 stars respectively on Amazon.
Bio
Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder and CEO of CareerCup.com and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume. CareerCup is the leading source of technical interview preparation and provides a free forum with 3000+ technical interview questions, a book, a video, and mock interviews.
Gayle has worked as a Software Engineer for Google, Microsoft and Apple and has extensive interviewing experience on both sides of the table. She has interviewed and received offers from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, IBM, Goldman Sachs and a variety of other firms, and she has interviewed over 120 candidates at Google and served on its hiring committee.
Gayle holds a BSE and MSE from UPenn in Computer Science, and an MBA from the Wharton School.