Case study: How can you compete with young people?

July 14, 2019

Introduction

It is my personal finance research. Last year our Shanghai Jiaotong University 70141 classmates got together, and we met our mathematics professor in the city of Vancouver. I talked to my classmate,  she advised me not to apply Amazon again, or Facebook. I just shared my onsite interview in the city of Seattle in 2018. I wondered what I should do, should I do something else? She made comment, how you can compete with young people?

Case study

I like to write a small case study on this topic. I did not have answer at that time, in July 2018. How can I compete with young generation for those positions?

I started my personal finance research starting from Nov. 2018.  I decided to move on, since Amazon is the only company I got two onsite interviews from 2016 to 2018.

I have to learn to push myself, examine all things I can do. So I started the personal finance research, continue to learn US economy, watch a lot of CNBC fast track money show. I started to work on my retirement portfolio and Canada TFSA portfolio as well. My classmate purchases stock over years, she works for bank and also insurance company.

I come back to apply again for Amazon AWS job in 2019.

If I cannot compete with young people, then I will be the best friend or coach, or hitting partner to work together.

How to do a good job? 

I just keep learning. My ex-coworker left after working in same manufacturer company this May 2019. She coached me to reach out to people, say hello; I still remembered the last day we went out lunch with a lot of coworkers, after 20 to 30 minutes, she started to collect business cards from restaurant sitting next to us. She talks to strangers.

I invited others to join me Kevin O Leary's show in Canada, my coworker Jenny went with me. In less than 30 minutes, she pushed me to talk to the front, left and right. And she asked what brings you to show.

Young people are working so hard. They keep running and doing physical exercise, fit like a movie star, fashion like a model. 

Beauty of Seattle ( 1 of 10 series) | Amazon onsite | 2018 | Software engineer interview | Seattle - 2 day hotel stay

June 9, 2018

Introduction

It is the best of time of the year to travel, and I like to document 10 blogs about beauty of Seattle. I like the city, and this time I had so many good memories about the city, people and vibrant exciting things happening in the city.

As a blogger, I know that the algorithm is not too long the pain. I had some emotional up-and-down, my coach comforted me a little bit.

With three friends to discuss one algorithm with me, I suddenly know that my job is not beating the bushes, and try to make myself a super talent person on algorithm this weekend.

My job is to document the beauty of a programmer life. How do I enjoy the success of 3 day trip? That is most important for a programmer to stay satisfied and always stay positive, living one day a time. Stay in current, stay grounded.

Beauty of Seattle

I have been to the city of Seattle a few times before. But this time I like to experience a luxury trip. I took the airplane to travel, and I chose to take link light rail to my hotel, which only cost three US dollars.

Seattle skyline from interstate I-5

Visit Amazon headquarter in the city of Seattle on June 7, 2018. Most of important is to catch up some reading about doppler building. Here is the link.