All My Job Offers In Tech

let's look at all the offers that I've ever had in my life we'll just go through the offers in tech because um you guys probably don't care about the fact that I worked at McDonald's even though that McDonald was a pretty fine job I don't want to brag but what was a top performing employee actually that's not true I was the worst and why because I didn't care I don't really care about my job I mean McDonald that's like a low tier company you know a high chair company would be like in and out if I didn't get an offer from them so you know it's the reason why I like wearing hats so much because it reminds me of the good old times the humble beginnings of Joma Tech now let's go through the tech offers now I want to explain that I went to University of Waterloo the best school in Canada it's basically like MIT but for Canada in Waterloo we usually have to do five to six internships one semester at school one semester you do an internship one semester at school one semester you're at internship blah blah blah so the system in which we apply to jobs is called job mine apparently now it's called Waterloo works or something like that but so in job mine they record all of your job application actually they only remember of the ones that you had an interview for and then you could either have three things either you're not ranked it means the company does not want you at all or you are ranked because some companies they only hire maybe one intern for the season and then because they only hire one intern what they do is that they rank the interviewees okay so this is my first co-op job I think I was a I was a freshman right right after freshmen usually your first co-op term your first internship it's pretty bad it's pretty bad everyone in Canada or in Waterloo wants to go to Cali we have something called Cali or bust it means you either go to California to get a job or you bust meaning you just get nothing which is kind of a risky move it means you just apply to all California jobs because that's you know Silicon Valley and then if you don't get any job you're pretty [ __ ] all right so let's check it out so this was my first ever coop and here you go I had one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven I had eleven interviews note that I applied to 50 jobs because 50 was the maximum so I applied to 50 jobs and then I had one two three four five six six ranked or offer one two three four I had four offer and two ranked now let's look at the unranked one real quick look at this talent here I got Palantir interview for my first term which is pretty crazy now usually they only hire seniors which is true cuz they didn't hire me but then again I was extremely unqualified for it you know I just started coding I didn't know anything about software engineering but I got pretty damn far because I think what I did was um they came to to our school to talk about Palantir and stuff like that and then I started talking or chatting with one of the person he was a Ford deploying engineer and apparently he was from Montreal - I said oh I'm from Montreal - blah blah blah blah blah blah and then we bonded over that and then he was able to get me an interview which is very rare but yeah and then I passed the phone interview and they were quite impressed but then once I got to be on-site it's not really an on-site they actually come to Waterloo to data interview they asked me a systems question I'll say yeah there's no [ __ ] way I know anything like I didn't know anything about computers back then I didn't know anything about software engineering so yeah I felt it easy-peasy yeah so like the first jobs you usually get like QA positions or you know shibi positions and that's exactly what I got as you see QA for Bank of America and then I did not get quantitative research while that must be a really hardcore job quantitative research macro mode Shaw didn't get that desire to learn oh that's actually a good first company to be at in Waterloo but didn't get that oh but I got the QA version the QA developer for it but I did not take that Indiana I Scotiabank because as analysts credit and equity derivatives that's actually a financial engineering position so I've had friends that went there and it's a pretty legit job my friends were seniors or juniors and they had this job so to get it as a freshman I was pretty proud so I took that job and then if we go to the second year as a sophomore as you can see I got one two three three offers one ranked and then one two three four five five rejection out of all of these interviews so this one I was actually pretty happy I worked pretty hard for it and fortunately I got a lot of these finance / tech jobs so as you can see I was still in finance I got an offer from Bloomberg that was like the first offer I got and I was quite happy because Bloomberg for our second co-op is pretty legit I think because I want to go to America I even told my advisor I said I want to go to America but then my advisor told me no you shouldn't do that that's that's a stupid decision to make you're not gonna get it honestly [ __ ] that guy if I listen to him I probably wouldn't have been you know working at these nice companies nowadays but yeah he literally said yeah don't even think about it that is so disrespectful so what I did was I applied to only American jobs so it's kind of like Kali or bus but instead it's America or bust and look at that I got three offers from us Oh actually actually it's more than just three offer I actually got quantitative brokers too but the thing about employers is sometimes they call you they say oh do you want this offer if not then I'm not gonna I'm not gonna rank you I'm not gonna offer you because it's kind of like a game theory thing or a matching problem but you know I got cooler job offers like civil investment that was a big deal I actually have a video that talks about Citadel so yeah check check that out if you want oh yeah by the way at this point I started knowing how to crack the interview I mean I'm not gonna talk about how exactly what I did to get the offers because I already made videos of that and I also I have a whole course on it called Tech interview procom which is really good I mean you should check it out now because there's a 50% off currently for Labor Day week it's it's pretty much a video course that teaches you exactly how to ace an interview and there's like a private Facebook group where we answer questions and there's like live Q&A where we host like every two weeks so yeah definitely check it out if you're preparing to interview it's really good I'm super proud of this course and yeah I hope I hope that you guys would enjoy it too but yeah check it out this is my third co-op and now I you know I got the hang a bit but I wanted to go into pure software companies right like LinkedIn Facebook Google those kind of things so I didn't want to do Finance tech anymore so now this time I applied to my dream companies so as you can see the offers I got I got Coursera Coursera was good III I liked the interview the interview was pretty good as you can see I I got rejected by Google you know my dream company got rejected and then LinkedIn I got an offer there which was great I made a video about it on how I got an internship ellington you could should check that out and then Microsoft for embedded systems I did not get it but I got the software development engineering role it makes sense I didn't know anything about embedded systems I had no idea how I got the interview I thought I did decently well but but yeah preparing not cuz because they rejected me once again applied to Palantir technologies but i didn't get it this time I was right they actually asked me the same question but I still failed and then tinder you know this was the first time they were hiring interns from Waterloo and I got the offer they only picked one I remember cuz I did the interview I even talked to the CTO wait what happened oh yeah remember like I had a porn Dora yeah so I made porn Dora but like I didn't list it here exactly on my resume cuz we did I linked incorporate actually yeah I did I did I think I did put in my porn Dora project but I called it like video streaming site or something like that but yeah because I did that project I learned a lot about uws you know so anything with like auto-scaling stuff you know using s3 you see the ends and stuff like that because it was very like video intensive kind of things so I think I really impressed the CTO because I knew a lot of these scrappy technologies that you usually use when you build a project from scratch so I yeah I think the CTO liked me so that was great and then also the recruiter was super cute but yeah I don't know if she imagined she watches my videos they'll be great shy messager Oscar anyways and I also got the Yelp offer that was pretty cool next I have no idea what next is so that's pretty much it for the coop because after that I actually dropped out of co-op the reason is because I didn't want to do PD which is a professional development you had to write an essay about the work that you've done or something like that and I really really didn't want to do it so I just dropped out of the whole co-op system and I just found jobs myself I went to Facebook and then after that I went to Microsoft I went to Facebook for data science at Microsoft for product management program management and yeah I just got referral didn't interview and you know got the offer I didn't really take the chance to interview a bunch of places which I do regret for full time when I got out of school I think I applied to a lot of different companies too I got rejected from Palantir again yeah I was just never able to go to Palantir I got rejected by Facebook rpm for proper management I got rejected by Google APM associate program associate product manager yeah so that's pretty much it and then the offers I got was like BuzzFeed for data science because I want to get famous and then I went there I already had a return offer for Facebook I had a return offer for Microsoft I ended up going to what's it called again at BuzzFeed and then I mean I did get a few offers for mice recent switch from data science to software so the offers that I got were oh sorry about that the camera the Callen was doing something weird I guess it got cut off yeah anyways so that's about it now to the quick updates I just want to thank each and every one of you who donated to the fundraiser to my fundraiser for Mental Health America and yeah in case you forgot I was giving out these corgis for everyone who donated and we passed our goal the goal was two thousand dollars and we passed it and I still have a lot of corgis left so I'm just gonna increase the goal to three thousand dollars now but yeah I'm super happy about it the turnout was super great and you guys are doing this for a great cause so thank you so much for donating so I rarely talk about my personal life but I guess I'll tell you this I actually have a roommate she is a high school teacher teaching environmental science I have massive respect for her she's doing something great she's teaching something very important and she teaches me all the time - I'm basically a man-child and she helps me become less of a man-child so I really really appreciate her today I wanted to surprise her by giving her a new MacBook Pro provided by brilliant org thank you so much for sending that so thanks brilliant org for sponsoring this video and sending this MacBook Pro for her and brilliant org in case you don't know it is a website that publishes daily challenge every day on stem the site is extremely sleek and they have over 50 interactive courses which makes learning these concepts so much easier I actually use them when I prep for my data science interviews because their probability section was really really good this website is a great complement to universities because you get to practice all these things that you learned in theory in class and then you could finally apply it to these questions for example me myself I'm more of a doer than a listener I have to try after practice I have to do things and I wish that I had brilliant org when I was in school because I would be able to practice my questions I would able to apply my knowledge to see if I actually understand so if you're interested don't forget to go on brilliant org slash coma and the first 200 people will get 20% off all right back to my roommate so I asked her to talk about water bottle usages and I there was basically an excuse to film it to film her reaction but I mean the thing that she says is really important so you should listen to it but this is what happened for the short break I want to talk to you about something quite important and it's about water balls no I have my roommate here and she's gonna be talking about something really important so um about water bottles right mm-hmm okay so well chances are you drink out of water bottles you know sometime in your life and more likely than not it's probably a plastic water bottle and unfortunately that's probably not the best thing to do for our environment of course because we all live on this planet and we share it and plastic is made out of oil which is you know a fossil feel that unfortunately we don't have very much of left in our world and we you know don't want to run out of it and we have a lot of other applications for it okay so plastic water bottles you know doesn't always end up where you think it might when you're done using it so what is one easy trick to prevent this issue um probably be a good idea to get a reusable water bottle no she mm-hmm so it's really important which is why I also have my own water bottle so as you can see using reusable water bottle is very very important that's why I always use a reusable water bottle wait those are plastic bottles oh yeah that's dumb thank you for doing this video so I have a little surprise for you close your eyes it's a little gift for you all right you can open your eyes this is yours this is sponsored by thank you so much for providing this MacBook Pro which I could give to my roommate because she's a great teacher it's George Wright I know it's not just food I was hoping for a better reaction yeah this is a disease yours for all your hard work why all the good cause I'm really confused right now I mean brilliant sent us a laptop so since I have already three of them I don't okay here's how you were supposed to react look no [ __ ] look no no no no I can't accept this no way so let's do that again [Music]