9 Project Management Time Wasters

Here is the link.

9 "Time waters" that kill time management and derail projects

Reminder:

Small
Inefficiencies
"Add" up
+
time


Solution:
1. Discipline
2. Priorities
3. Tools

Time wasters

- Internet, email,
- Distractions
- Calls
- Unplanned meetings
- Administration
- Travel

Solution:
1. Discipline
2. Priorities
3. Tools

How to Work Smarter Not Harder

Here is the link.

how?
. Abilities
. Boundaries
. Calendar
. Mentors/ mentees
. Processes
. Question

Why?

How to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence at Work - Project Management Training

Here is the link.

Domain and competencies

Self-awareness
Self-management
Social awareness
Relationship management

Why:

Leads to ___
1. Increase leadership ability & improve decision making

How to improve
1. Self
Improve emotional self-control
. Don't explode when things don't go your way
. Don't take credit for everything
. Don't brag about how good you are.

2. Others
Improve empathy
. Be aware of other's emotions
. Detect when someone is shutdown or upset
. Leverage when resolving team conflict.

Top 10 Terms Project Managers Use

Introduction

I need to learn the basics. I review all kinds of mistakes I made on Facebook onsite interviews. I did not send an email when I took the flight and notified the recruiter I just landed in San Francisco, checked in the hotel. I showed up rude to drink water when the interviewer introduced herself to me the first three minutes, left food on the table which are supposed to shared with the interviewer and interviewee. I need to learn and admit that first, I should start to learn things.

Project managers use 

Here is the link.

I like to take some notes from the video.

"Top 10"
1. WBS - deliverable oriented "Scope"
2. Milestones
3. Baselines
4. Triple constraint - time, cost, scope, triangle, quality
5. Project life cycle - Initiation, ...
6. Gontt chart
7. CCB - group of stakeholders
8. Stakeholder
9. Change management
10 Risk mitigation

Actionable Items

I am thinking hard what to work on next. I think that I should push myself hard to find area to work on. I start from coding blog, and then move on personal finance research, and now I think that it may be a good topic to work on called project management.

How To Manage Small Projects - Project Management Training

Here is the link.

Embracing behavioural finance

Here is the article.

I like to read the article and warm up my knowledge about behavioural finance.

recency bias
loss aversion - the pain associated with losses has twice the impact of the pleasure from gains.

confirmation bias (“Have you sought and considered contrary opinions?”); 
recency bias (“How important is recent price performance to your decision?”); 
availability bias (“Is recent news swaying your decision?”); 
and anchoring (“Do you have a previous high or an initial purchase price as an anchor?”), among other questions.

Canadian teen Bianca Andreescu reaches tennis final

Here is the link.

Bianca Andreescu vs. Elina Svitolina | Full Match | 2019 Indian Wells Semifinal | WTA Highlights

Here is the link.

It is more than two hours video, and I like to watch it from beginning to the end. I like to learn carefully through real matches.

8 Steps to Fiscal Fitness w Richard Rosso, CFP

Here is the link.

Fiscal fitness tips

1. Rebalance, restructure,
2. Winners -> profit,
tax harvest
3. Fire your B/M bank
4. ???  consumer-act.org
5. Open enrollment
6. Designated beneficiaries
7. Use the Right Credit Card
8. Emergency cash

Financial planner Richard Rosso shares tips for teens and finances

Here is the link.


1. Celebrate the 'rite of passage' from payout to paycheck
2. Fund a Custodial Roth IRA
3. Start a cash-flow discovery exercise

Richard Rosso Planting Seeds for Financial Harvest 8 9 18

Here is the link.

Feel what to do their paycheck.

New level:
Save, share, not spend -> Roth IRA

Teaching platform
How to celebrate this mile stone?

For example, his daughter saved 20 - 30% of pay check.

Bear Market Awareness Checklist

Here is the article I like to read.

Ways to Save Money with financial planner and Richard Rosso

Here is the link.

Performing a Project Premortem

Here is the link.

A Bear Market Checklist To Thriving In A Downturn

Here is the article I like to read.

Now that we have a good idea of where we are in the economic cycle, it’s always good to prepare for something before it happens. This is called “pre-mortem” versus “post-mortem.” You want to have a pre-mortem checklist for things such as:

• What to do if you get into a car accident
• What to do if your baby or toddler is choking
• What to do if an intruder is breaking into your house
• What to do if you’re having a heart attack
• What to do if your spouse passes away suddenly

When disaster strikes, we often CANNOT think clearly. As a result, we tend to make suboptimal choices. With a pre-mortem checklist, we don’t have to think. Instead, we can follow instructions that were created when we were thinking clearly.

Thankfully, a downturn moves at a glacial pace in comparison to these above disasters. Therefore, we have plenty of time to take action. Unfortunately, because a downturn can take months to transpire, there’s often less of a sense of urgency.

Bear Markets Don’t Last Forever

Although going through a bear market is painful, the stock market has made money 95 percent of the time over rolling 10-year periods since 1926. Over a rolling 20-year period, it’s made money 100 percent of the time.

Unfortunately, we will all eventually run out of time. Running out of time is why I’ve put together a bull market and bear market checklist. Ideally, I want us to live our best lives possible all of the time.

Having to spend time to recoup losses is a terrible waste of time. As you get older and wealthier, you no longer want to worry about money anymore. All you want to do is spend time on what really matters.

This popular stock-market checklist from Citi says the bull is alive and well

Here is the article I like to read.

I like to learn basic ideas, how many things are on check list.

Global equity valuations
U.S. Yield Curve (10-yr minus 2-Yr)

Sentiment

Corporate Behavior

Profitability

Balance Sheets/ Credit markets

# of Sell Signals

Bianca Andreescu Walk and Talk

Here is the link.

Bianca Andreescu Tennis Interview with The Koz

Here is the link for 11 minutes interview.

[HD 1080p] Bianca Andreescu Practising at the Rogers Cup | August 3, 2019

Here is the link.

Bianca Andreescu 2019 BNP Paribas Indian Wells Practice Serve

I like to practice serves all the time. I always take a bucket of tennis balls with me when I walk on tennis court.

Here is the link.

Bianca Andreescu at the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar

Here is the link. Fitness training in clay season.

Who is Bianca Andreescu — Canada's rising tennis star

Here is the link.

Bianca Andreescu reflects on her incredible start to 2019

Here is the link.

Bianca Andreescu on court coaching that made her comeback from set and 5-1 down

Here is the link.

Coach> You are actually...

Bianca: I am not feeling anything out there..

Every time I tried to do something, it does not get my way.

You want to do

You are willing to mature ...

Bianca: I am getting so mad at myself. I am so irritated.

Coach: Just be in your bubble. One point is your ball. Not everything else. Do not get ahead yourself. Slowly, you do what you need to do.

A lot of games can be turned around. Stay positive, stay fighting.

Actionable Items

I also need to find some good coach to help me learn what to do next in terms of my career.

Bianca Andreescu | WTA Future Star

Here is 10 minutes video to watch.

Bianca Andreescu

Here is the link. 4 minutes workout inside gym.

Copper Branch et Bianca Andreescu - Extraordinaire | LES COULISSES

Here is the link.

Canadian tennis players inspired by Andreescu win

Here is 10 minutes video to watch.

Fed Chair Powell reiterates goal of continuing economic expansion

Here is the link.

Bianca Andreescu and my weight control

August 24, 2019

Introduction

I like to learn to be a fan for tennis player Bianca Andreescu. What I like to do is to spend hours to watch her play on youtube.com, and her interview. Most of important is for me to learn how to keep same weight as she does, 176 lb. Now I am 184 lb, I just lost 8 lb from 192 lb two months ago. I like to lose another 8 lbs so that my knee will feel better.

Reduce stress and have more fun

One thing I can do is to educate myself, how many nutrition I need for a daily basis. Also I have to learn how to keep myself active in terms of sports activity, daily work, and other interest as well.

2 minutes video is here.

PRESS CONFERENCE: Bianca Andreescu - Semi-finals Toronto 2019 is here. 

'I'm the F'ing champion of Indian Wells!' - Bianca Andreescu, here is the link. 

GOTO 2016 • Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency • Martin Kleppmann

Here is 50 minutes video.

I like to build some interest to learn more about distributed system from Martin kleppmann.

My 10 years career in Canada

August 24, 2019

Introduction

It is the first time I can hold a software programmer job lasting 10 years from 2010 to 2019. I like to write a short blog and look into what I should work on.

10 years career

I started to learn how to work on myself in terms of problem solving skills after 2015. I learn that there is need and wants. What I like to do is to focus on needs, not wants. I like to really enhance myself as a problem solver, algorithm and data structure practice really is a good choice for me to be employable as a software engineer.

I went to Amazon onsite in the city of Seattle on June 8, 2018. After that, I was thinking about how to find a medium size company so that I can learn more and get challenged. To find a job in Amazon or in USA is too challenging for me.

I went back to my daily work, and continued to work on algorithm and data structure practice. This August 2019, I went to Facebook onsite interview in MPK campus in California.

One thing I can control is to work on more algorithm and data structure practice. I can really push hard on this and make myself competitive on this area. I also like to share my experience, write on more topics on Leetcode.com.

I went to Amazon onsite on August 15, 2019, I was asked how you find time to solve so many algorithms. I solved 420 algorithm. It took me four years to practice from January 2015 to August 2019.

I went to Facebook onsite on August 20, I was told that since you work on Leetcode and solve a lot of algorithms. Have you solved the problem before? Should I change another algorithm.

Personal finance

Another thing I can work on is to learn how to manage my personal finance. I have to take consideration of how good I can manage money, living expenses and investment. It is very important for me to evaluate how big risk I can take and my asset I have.

Weight control

Another thing I have to learn and work on is to control my weight. I like to keep my weight under 180 lb. Always try to keep same weight as Canada top tennis player Bianca Andreescu same weight, 176 lb.

Coaches Corner: Interview with Coach Jim Madrigal

I like to read the article about Key Stephen's new coach. Here is the link.

Jermaine Jenkins: from college champ to Osaka's new coach

Here is the article I like to read.

In July of 2015, Jenkins joined Venus Williams's team as a hitting partner. During her time with Jenkins, Williams climbed back into the Top 5 and reached the finals of the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the WTA Finals in 2017.

Jenkins also communicated with Serena Williams about his brother during her search for a post-motherhood hitting partner, which eventually led to the 23-time Grand Slam champion hiring Jarmere for her own team.

Behavior interview - guideline

I like to learn how to understand behavior interview, so I can go back to my daily work, and then try to apply those things at work. 

This is a behavioral interview to gauge how well you will adapt in our environment. The questions will revolve around your past work and some of the challenging situations you’ve encountered. This interview is evaluating you on your leadership, maturity, and overall scope/technical depth of work.

1. Motivations:

Aside from what your motives are, be ready to explain why. How have your motivations impacted your work?  

2. Conflict Resolution:

This is where you may be asked to discuss a disagreement. We want to understand your philosophy on tackling conflicts, thought process, and approach. Be clear on what the disagreement was, who was involved, how it was handled on your end, and what the end decision was.

3. Empathy 

The ability to understand your peers (especially in situations of disagreements) and work with them including people with more authority. How do you encounter 1-on-1’s with peers

4. Growth:

Understanding how and what has contributed to your career growth. You may be asked to explain major mistakes you’ve learned from, or project failures, or risks you’ve taken that resulted in little to no impact. 

5. Dealing with Ambiguity 

The ability to run with an initiative with limited information/resources. We’re looking to see how you’ve navigated your team through challenging situations and whether you could adapt in our unstructured (no red tape) environment

Key Evaluation areas - system design

your design must be scalable in a large environment like Facebook

Key Evaluation areas:

1. Problem Exploration

1. Ask questions! Ex: What is the underlying motivation of building “X”
2. Gather requirements and clarify any uncertainties: Target users; # of users; amount of data to be handled; requests per second; etc.
3. Attempt to define the problem and how “X” will be built (this will give you a roadmap to follow for remaining of interview)

2. Design Approach

1. High level discussion in regard to covering the main components (*providing reasons/logic behind why they are relevant)
2. What are the different options to get to a solution
3. HOW this product/system will impact other areas of the business

3. Data Management

There’s a high likelihood the question you’re going to be given will have some facet of data management. Some areas to mention during the discussion:

1. How will data be stored
2. (If any) Define data entities
3. Which technology is best to use; or, suggest which data storage solution is best and why

4. Tradeoffs

1. After discussing the pros/cons of each option; choose 1-2 methods to design up a solution.
2. Explain why your making this choice and how it is right for the domain/service
3. Make your tradeoff clear

5. Deep Dive

Do a deep dive on some facet of the problem you feel comfortable with. This is where you can highlight your expertise in any one area. You will be assessed on your depth in “X” area. Discuss any additional concerns; how to prevent them; and your approach. (Its ok to go back and forth with your tradeoff if later you realize there is a more efficient method)

6. Quantitative Analysis

This can be done towards the end or in between the discussions. Try to think quantitatively about how your design will work in reality - make some approximate calculations

**Helpful links:

System design primer

Approaching a Systems Design Question

Introduction to distributed systems design 

Key components for coding interviews

August 24, 2019

Introduction

It is so important for me to learn lessons since I wrote bugs in my own code. Rotated sorted array, I practiced over 10 times, and I wrote various solutions. I was told to test the code, but I did not pay attention to the detail onsite. I documented my experience here. 

Key components for coding interviews

KEY COMPONENTS for coding interviews:

1. Communication 

a.      Ask clarifying questions

b.      Gather requirements (if necessary)

c.       Show the interviewer you understand the problem

2. A. Critical Thinking

1. Be vocal, discuss your solution or method before coding (this will help you identify any gaps in the process)
2. (If applicable) Discuss multiple solutions and alternative methods to solve

B. Problem Solving

1. Use of appropriate data structures
2. Optimize and speak about space and time complexity 

3. Coding 

1. Cleanliness of code; and is it executable
2. Organization of code and capturing right logical structure

4. Verification 

1. Go back and test your code!
2. Consider test cases to prove your code is correct
3. If you have bugs, step through your own logic to identify them and explain what the code is doing

Harold Solomon Tennis Institute

Here is the link.

Naomi Osaka Tennis Biography

Here is the link.

I need to learn to be humble again

August 24, 2019

Introduction

It is my personal finance research. I chose to start personal finance research last November, and then learned that frugality should be my best choice, cut off all relative's emotional connections, focus on my own business. I do not want those depressed stuff and try to find ways to cut off. I do not want anything in my life, no material things, I can live happy and healthy and smart.

My email

I wrote an email to reflect on my thought process. I know that it is tough business world. No one will pay attention to my writing, since I like to write and express myself.

HI, xxx, 

I read your email. It is such great to hear from you about the result about onsite interview. I definitely like the whole experience of interview, including final result. I am just hunger for success, and so happy to meet those hard working engineers in Facebook. 

I wish that I could have impressed them with my curiosity, and quick-to-learn, sports-style problem solving and coding approach. It is very challenging job to work on big project like Instagram, ads team, work for Facebook in general. I am looking for the best opportunity, and also Facebook works so hard to identify who has potential. We all take calculated risk to figure out best for us. 

My boss - owner of company XX xxxxxing sent the email once a few years ago with all kinds of paper piling on the table to the office, remind us to clean up, throw away things when we moved the office. He told me a few times how to work better with young people in the office. 

I enjoy my current job, and also I enjoy to work on more algorithm and data structure practice, 

Feel free to reach me any time if I have chance to be interviewed. I will be very happy to apply again. 

Also if you can share me more about feedback, it will be great help for me as well. 


Sincerely, 

jianmin chen 

Actionable Items

August 25, 2019 - 12:05 AM

It is so important for me to review my own thought process. I just reviewed the onsite interview, and then I noticed that I was so rude, in my thinking process; I did not send an email in Sunday August 18 or August 19 to notify the recruiter that I came to San Francisco as planned. I did not think for others, specially a big company to work together closely. 

I decided to change the blog title from "Look for fair chance" to "I need to learn to be humble again". 

I also decide to start to learn how to be a project manager through youtube.com. I like to be a person who knows how and what to communicate, and be able to allow people smart and successful people in Facebook feel comfortable to work closely with me. 

I like to continue to advance my algorithm and data structure practice, and really make it my hobby and good topics for me to learn how to write as a writer. 

My onsite short highlights - August 20, 2019

August 24, 2019

One of tasks is to write down the review, short highlights of my onsite interview with Facebook.

Short review 

I learned that I wrote buggy code for rotated sorted array, index-out-of-range error in my last interview; I did ok with the scientist, PH.D., on graph search algorithm, serialization extended algorithm, the third interview; and then I did ok with the second system design, since I showed up prepared on system design interview, with notes of structure system design written down a piece of paper. I talked about functional requirement, non-function requirement, requirement not discussed.

Executable code is the goal. I thought about culture fit, my background, and one way is to make the algorithm and data structure problems harder. This will be last chance I can compete the job since all others will go for domain knowledge, not problem solving skills interview.

Email notification

August 24, 2019

Introduction

It is my favorite part of waiting for result. I never have got any offer last 9 years. I know that it takes time for me to learn how business world works. Wednesday is day off for summer MPK campus. Thursday morning I just got an email early in the morning.

Email notification

I was able to connect with the interviewer team and unfortunately, I was not able to get approval to move forward with an offer.  The volume of interviews we’ve been conducting combined with the quality of candidates that we’ve been talking to often forces us to make difficult decisions.  I'm sorry – I wish I had better news!! ☹

20190809 WTA Toronto QF Karolina Pliskova 1-2 Bianca Andreescu - Last 4 Games

Here is the link.

Coach explained to Karolina first two minutes, what the coach thought about ..., nice one!

Ultimate Dropshot Intelligence | Bianca Andreescu

Here is five minutes for me to study drop shot.

How to compete the senior software engineer position from Facebook?

August 23, 2019

Introduction

It is my personal finance research. I like to challenge myself to find best way to grow rich and build wealth. One of ways is to apply the senior software engineer position from Facebook this year.

How to compete the position?

First of all, it is tough to be selected as a candidate. I met a few managers in San Francisco, and they all told me that they like to be invited. I told them that you have to work hard, write a few show cases. They quickly asked me what I did, and how many of them.

I like to be a writer to work on this topic. I do think that I learn something from my two weeks preparation for system design.

Also it is most important to get connected to friends as well in Florida from 1999 to 2001. I like to learn from my friends' experience. Over 18 years time range, all of my friends are grown up with two kids to raise, worry about how to get their children best education in top universities.

What I did is to ask help from my old friend Tracy. She works for Google now, and she shared her tip on August 18, 2019. She told me that she went to a lot of interviews in Hong Kong, and then she had to practice again and again interview. She likes to draw the diagram about system design, I know her personality by hanging out back from 1999 to 2001. I should get myself more chance to practice as well.

Her tip definitely helped me to prepare system design interview for my August 20, 2019 onsite interview.

One thing I can think about is to find more role models for me to learn from. I think that it is also important for me to learn how to identify really good business opportunities in long run.

I need to watch out what I work on. Do not waste the time. Measure the risk and return on projects I choose to work on.

Actionable Items

I like to examine all areas I should work on to improve. One thing I can do is to work on more algorithm and data structure practice.

Adrienne Arsenault

Here is the wiki page.

How to study a top engineer Linkedin profile?

August 23, 2019

Introduction

One thing I like to do is to train myself to read a lot of people's linkedin profile, and then quickly figure out what is new and what makes so special. I do not know too much what I should work on to improve my curiosity and how to learn to improve my own profile.

Helder Dias

Here is the linkedin profile I like to study. I had 45 minutes interview on August 20, 2019 from Helder.

Follow up

Oct. 21, 2022

Helder Dias

Engineering, Founding Team at Stealth Startup | ex-Facebook

Bianca Andreescu on victory over Serena Williams, what's next

Here is the link.

I showed no mercy.

One year later, a wildly different story for Bianca Andreescu at U.S. Open

I like to read the article, what I look into is how she finds herself a good coach and financially support herself and her team.

Here is the article.

How I study a tennis player? - Bianca Andreescu

August 23, 2019

Introduction

It is my assignment to study new face - Bianca Andreescu. I also like to look into how I study a new player, how they succeed and advance their career.

Case study

I like to show case how I study a new player. I like to enhance my reading and also learn how to be a fun person myself. One way I choose is to study those professional tennis players. They are trained how to take interviews.

I choose to read wiki page first. Here is the page for me to ready.

Bianca Andreescu at US Open Media Day

Here is the interview I like to watch. I also need to spend time to learn from a new star of professional WTA player. Her name is Bianca Andreescu.

How do I spend time to surf internet and relax?

I like to learn from those top seed tennis players WTA and learn how they take interviews. Here is the video I watch. Meanwhile I also spend time to read those interviewer's linkedin profile on my Facebook onsite interview.

Can tennis players use 90s tech?

Here is 10 minutes to entertain myself while I am working on ideas to create blogs. I met a lot of them in the city of Beijing China open.

I like to learn from those tennis professional players.

Best team I met and things I learned on August 20, 2019

August 23, 2019

Introduction

It is the first time I learn how to work with so many engineers in one day from 10:20 AM to 3:45 PM. I had good time to meet so many talents in the world, and was so amazed to learn a few things in those interviews.

How to share?

I may sign confidential agreement. I just learned those interviewer names from survey after the interview. Facebook is such great company and also they work hard to advance management of human resource of recruiting. Young engineers work hard to make the experience super helpful as well.

Ken Ayers 
Helder Dias 
Lu Yu 
Cary Chen 
Siqi Nie 
Oksana Zvarych 
Miorel Palii 

I plan to study those interviewer's linkedin profiles and I should spend at least 30 minutes to read carefully.

What to share?

Actionable Items

I just do not believe that it may be the case that interviewer may select those algorithms I recently worked on, and asked me in the onsite interviews.

Day two in Pullman hotel redwood city

August 23, 2019

Introduction

It is best vacation time in the year to travel and my destination is best place and interview is most exciting company and technology I like - Facebook headquarter.

Day two 

I like to share some nice picture around the hotel as well.

Day one in Pullman hotel in Redwood city

August 23, 2019

Introduction

It is so nice to have chance to live in Pullman hotel to prepare for Facebook onsite interview on Feb. 20, 2019. I am very frugal starting this March, since I work on my personal finance research and predict my future earnings and my assets. I actual had best vacation in the world for onsite interview.

Day one

I like to document my life to live in Pullman hotel. I checked in around 9:30 PM after more than two hours dinner with my friends on August 18, 2019, and then I spent over one hour to swim in the swimming pool.

Here is the folder.

I like the good design and comfortable space inside the hotel. I will train myself with good taste of lighting design and meeting place set up inside hotel.

I like to take some selfie and learn that good lighting design inside the hotel. Also I think that it is so important for me to appreciate the chance to experience best hotel in the world. I cut my hair by myself last months. I like to cut all my living cost as minimum as possible. This was my first flight last 16 months. I never dye my hair, and like to see how my hair will turn gray through the next few years.

Pullman Hotels and Resorts

I like to spend 20 minutes to read the wiki article about the hotel. I took pictures inside hotel, and I really like to learn the design from the hotel.

Here is the wiki article.

I took some pictures in the swimming pool, and I found out the lighting is very well designed as well.

Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards

Here is the wiki article to read.

List of Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award winners[edit]

Year	Innovation	Leadership	Social Impact
2005	Radia Perlman	Janie Tsao	Pamela Samuelson
2007	Deborah Estrin	Duy-Loan Le	Leah Jamieson
2008	Helen Greiner	Susan Landau	Justine Cassell
2009	Yuqing Gao	Jan Cuny	Mitchell Baker
2010	Kathleen McKeown	Kristina Johnson	Lila Ibrahim
2011	Mary Lou Jepsen	Chieko Asakawa	Karen Panetta
2012	Sarita Adve	Jennifer Chayes	Sarah Revi Sterling
2013	Maja Matarić	Genevieve Bell	Vicki Hanson
2014	Tal Rabin	Maria Klawe	Kathrin Winkler

In 2015, the awards were updated to include the Student of Vision Award. "This award honors young women dedicated to creating a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies for which they build it." ^[6] The award for technology entrepreneurship was also added.

Year	Student of Vision	Leadership	Technology Entrepreneurship
2015	Camila Fernandez Achutti	Julie Larson-Green	Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan
2016	Alyssia Jovellanos	Michele Guel	Pooja Sankar

Jennifer Chayes, 2012 Winner of the ABIE Award for Leadership, Acceptance Speech

Here is the link.

10:00/ 13:57
1. Find yourself surround smart and nice people;
2.
3. Do not hold on too tight your past; Do not miss the magic. Opportunity presents themselves.
4. Hold on your passion.
5. I want to be research leader, and also do your research
6. Never ever let it go.
7. Stay in the race, lean in, stay in the game.

Jennifer Chayes: Women need to stay in the game

Here is the link.

Beautiful Math - Jennifer Chayes

Here is the link.

Jennifer Chayes - Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England, New York City and Montreal

I watched the interview hosted by Jennifer Chayes. I just learned the first name, so I google search "Jennifer Microsoft theory group math professor".

Here is the link.

I like to choose her to be my role model.

Try to push myself to lose another 10 lbs

August 23, 2019

Introduction

It is one of my health research topic. I should lose another 10 lbs, since I like to be healthy, and also I like to solve another 200 to 300 Leetcode algorithms while I have a full time job next 12 months. Today I weigh 184 lb, and I lost 8 lbs last 2 months.

Be ambitious

I learn that it is very important experience in my life, discipline myself, take some risk, experience hunger every day. I like to push myself to control my weight below 175 lb. Make sure that I can stay healthy for another 10 years.

I like to create a github folder to share my experience to control my weight, keep myself fit. I like to have very good life as a software engineer, stay single, and grow rich and build wealth.

Ideas to celebrate my first Facebook onsite interview at California MPK campus

August 23, 2019

Introduction

I just came back from Tuesday Facebook onsite interview from California MPK campus. I met over 8 interviewers and experience biggest social platform Facebook, and experienced excitement to work on the campus.

Schedule

My first email from Facebook in 2019, May 2019. Here is the blog.
My phone screen       July 22, 2019. Here is the blog.
My onsite interview   August 20, 2019

Ideas

One of ideas is to celebrate my first Facebook onsite interview. I just could not believe that I do have to work hard to celebrate the onsite interview.

1. First, I like to use a Leetcode discuss post to celebrate my onsite interview. My failure opens door to my curiosity, and make every idea work. Even though it is not so rewarding if I try a new idea on onsite interview, and I should have acknowledged that the code will have index-out-of-range error, wrong answer.

Here is the link. Here is the idea I made it work, and I like to encourage myself to be a good engineer, test my own code.

Ideas to celebrate my third Amazon onsite interview in the city of Vancouver

August 23, 2019

Introduction

It was so exciting for me to attend my onsite interview from Amazon in the city of Vancouver on August 15, 2019. I like to come out the ideas to celebrate my onsite interview.

My schedule of application process

Online code screen  May , 2019, here is the blog
Phone screen           June , 2019, here is the blog
Onsite interview     August 15, 2019

Ideas

One of ideas is to share some good and quality video talking about research, science and innovation of technology. I like to put together a few things I chose to celebrate my career success.

Panel Discussion: How to do good research and have a successful career in Research

Here is 45 minutes video.

Best sharing I found out and like to share from Jennifer

26:00 - 32:00/ 43:00

“What qualities does a good researcher possess?”

Here is the link.

How to Be a Good Scientist

Here is the link.

1. Understanding the Qualities of a Good Scientist
Love science and scientific exploration
Experiment with new ideas
Be patient and detail oriented
Be open-minded but consider all the facts and hypotheses
Be open to failure


2. Developing Your Scientific Skills

Take charge of your ideas
Set goals
Collaborate and build strong partnerships
Practice your writing and reading skills
Develop your presentation skills
Maintain a balance between hard work and rest

"Most PhD students don't love to write" Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty

Here is the link.

"Start to write early" - Advice from Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate

Here is the link.

Peter C. Doherty

Here is the wiki page.

What makes a good scientist?

Here is the link.

Science is supported by tax dollars.

On the Process of Becoming a Great Scientist

Here is the article.

1. Don't worry about age, worry about being exposed to new ideas.

2. Tinker.

3. Take risks.

4. Enjoy your work!

5. Learn to say “No!”

6. Learn to enjoy the process of writing and presenting.

7. See the big picture and keep it in mind.

10 Commandments of Being A Successful Scientist | Professor Darren Griffin | Think Kent

Here is the link.

How are we judged by the people who have an influence on our careers?

33. Search in Rotated Sorted Array

Here is the link.

I had practice on binary search algorithm Rotated sorted array on pramp.com more than 10 times back in 2017. But I still could not clear the interview on 2019 August on this algorithm. I wrote the code with bugs, and then I did not pay attention to possible bugs like TLE, index-out-range, wrong answer.

What I like to do is to work on various ideas as possible this time, remove bias; Give every idea a chance to live, try to code it and make it work.

Time Line: 2019 August 20
Onsite interview, whiteboard version with bugs on August 20, 2019, California, MPK, here is the link.

Time Line: 2019 August 22
Optimal solution, avoid middle - 1 or middle + 1, practice on August 22, 2019. Here is the link.

Time Line: 2019 August 23
Work on idea to define left half [start, middle - 1], practice on August 23, 2019. here is the link.
Time Line: 2017
My practice in 2017. Here is the link.

Time Line: 2017
Common mistakes in binary search is my favorite research topic in 2017. Here is the blog.

My mock interview practice in 2017, here is the blog with source code link in the blog as well.

pramp.com 10 rounds of mock interview
https://github.com/jianminchen/Mock-interviews
Algorithm is called shifted array search, here is the folder to contain all practice for mock interviews.

2017 07 1st round June - July, here is the link.

2017 2nd round July - Sept, here is the link.

2017 3rd round Nov - Dec, here is the link.

2018 Jan - Feb, here is the link.

2018 Feb 7 - Feb 25, here is the link.

2018 March 30 - May 4, here is the link.

2018 June 16, here is the link.