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Salary negotiation, should I discuss Glassdoor comp data?
Regarding Salary Negotiation and using Salary Data from the web... From a story posted on Business Insider: The best job candidates don't bring up salary data when negotiating — here's what they do instead. Asking for what the budget for the role is. Saying "based on...
Fermi Problems & The GCA interview
Here is an excellent read that appeared in my News Feed on LinkedIn - how Google, Amazon and Facebook like to use Fermi Problems as GCA interview questions. What is a Fermi Problem? A Fermi problem involves making estimates and using mathematics to answer a question,...
Compromise: “Coworker not doing her job”?
Solving the problem collaboratively and coming to a compromise is always the preferable way of approaching this scenario. To prepare for your interviews, try to find an example where you negotiated a compromise that got you and your colleague our of a sticky situation...
The Five & Ten Year Plan – your key to success
Develop your Five Year Plan today with help from Prodigy I learned about the Five Year Plan very early on in my working life: When I was in my very early 20's, when I was breaking into the television industry as a production person (i.e. - camera person, editor,...
Amazon Behavioral Interviews & how to ace them
Reviewing & using The Amazon Leadership Principles is a great place to start when preparing for the Amazon Behavioral Interviews. Intuitive reading of the principles along with the descriptions provides a LOT of guidance on how to answer these questions. The types...
Honest response from a Googler to Candidate’s Question on Quora
Honest response from a Googler to a question on Quora: Q: Do Google engineers get tired of interviewing candidates since so many are rejected? A: "I can only answer for myself: I get tired of interviewing candidates (I do one to two interviews per week), not...
Stories for FAANG interviews – the value of preparation – Part 2
(Confession - I changed the title of the post for SEO sake, and the SEO engine is telling me to insert what the point of this posting is about -> Stories!!!) Congratulations! So your resume / LinkedIn profile caught the attention of the recruiters at one or more of...
Preparation for FAANG Interviews? How I prepare for them
Preparation for FAANG Interviews - How do I prepare for them? I know I’ve written and discussed this with my coaching clients before - truthfully I didn’t do *any* preparation for my Google or Amazon interviews. For Amazon it was before my “aha!” moment so I simply...
Value of preparing Emotionally for your FAANG interviews – part 1
Preparing Emotionally for your FAANG interviews Looking back at this post in January 2023, I think it's even more relevant in today's job market than when this was written (May 2022). When I went through my interview process and eventual hiring with Google, I did...
Intellectual Humility: What – and how important – is it?
"Intellectual humility is often described as an intellectual virtue, along with other perceived virtues such as open-mindedness, intellectual courage and integrity, and in contrast to proposed intellectual vices, such as pride and arrogance." From my perspective,...