Career Advice About LinkedIn

I've got my first interviews lined up with Meta and LinkedIn in December. I can probably push it to January but the dilemma remains the same.

How do I effectively prepare for those interviews?

Background : 2 years of SWE experience and Electrical Engineering background.

I am pursuing my master's from Georgia Tech part time and working a full time job. I barely get 4-5 hours for myself a week and I use those to either play football with friends or watch a show with my family.

I didn't expect to get such interviews in the first place. The recruiters had reached out to me.

After Thanksgivings and up until January first week, I have the semester break. So I can prepare them effectively for around 6 weeks with my job and no master's going on then.

I am not well versed with any topic to solve a question but I remember some of the concepts from my undergrad algorithms course and the weak interview prep I had done 3 years ago.

A good thing here is that I am pursuing a graduate level algorithms course this semester but again it's purely theoretical/psuedocode based. It helps building intuition with DP, Graphs and Divide N Conquer problems. On paper I can solve those questions but may fumble with the implementation.

I'm thinking of picking questions from the frequently asked Meta/LinkedIn problems list on leetcode and preparing for the Interviews solely based on this. I don't know if any other problem set would help me now.

I'm only giving this interview because I don't want to miss out on this opportunity. I've always dreamt of such an opportunity and now it's finally coming true. I wouldn't be sad if I didn't clear the interview but just disappointed in myself if I don't give my best in the limited time available.

Please do let me know if there is anything I can do to game the system and somehow perform well.

Hi all. I am working at a contract role right now with a small startup that ends in less than 6 months. There is a chance to convert to full time, but they could also just end the contract.

I am confused about how to handle LinkedIn during this time.

Should I keep the open to work badge?

Currently I get a lot of reachouts on LinkedIn for interviews. I am not sure if that will change when I take the badge off.

Hi everyone, I work on Android and currently my team isn't having a lot of OKR work, at least Android-specific. This means I got some time to understand the system better and improve my craftsmanship.

What could I pick up now which will help me in career growth and better understanding of the system? As of now, I am writing a couple of lint rules. I also tried exploring few other repos but there are just too many to explore in-depth.

One of my coworkers is leaving my company at the end of next week. I'd like to ask him for a LinkedIn recommendation. When I end up leaving the company at some point, I'd like to ask my current coworkers for a LinkedIn recommendation.

My question is, when should I ask for the recommendation? While they're still at my company but on 2 week notice, or after they've left? I think while they're still here makes sense since there's nothing wrong with a current coworker recommending you.

Any other thoughts about LinkedIn recommendation and their value (or lack thereof) are welcome.

I occasionally have people reach out to me on LinkedIn asking me to refer them to my company. I want to be a nice guy, but I also don't want to refer people who are probably no better than the average person cold applying.

How should I think about helping these people without sacrificing too much of my own time? E.g. I can ask to see their resume and go through it to see that they're basically qualified. In my mind, the more qualified they are, the more reason I have to refer them, although the less likely they need my referral.

Am I thinking about this the right way?

Thanks!

When I say re-org, I mean product we are working on changes, but people more or less remain the same.

I have primarily worked in the consumer space for most of my career and I was re-orged 9 months back, still working in the consumer space. This was first re-org of my life, and it came up with lots of uncertainties and new partner teams.

Now again, I (along with few more people) have been re-orgd to enterprise product. For 2 months, we'll help another team in one project. After that we'll get a proper product to work upon.

I have the following doubts and need help with:

1. Moving from consumer to enterprise at the first glance doesn't seem interesting. I am not sure how will it go with time but if anyone had this experience in their career, please consider sharing.
2. Any advice to cope up with the demotivation due to continuous re-orgs?
3. I was a UI developer and now I am focusing majorly on API. Tbh, my tasks are pretty easy but I am taking time to grasp how everything works end-to-end. Until we get to the final product we will be working upon, I don't think I will have solid points to show in performance review since I am mostly focusing on execution. The team owning the project had already disambiguated the main chunks of the project.

Thanks in advance for your help.

I am trying apply to companies via referrals by reaching out to people on LinkedIn who work there already. Some people give me a yes but never get back after that. I understand that it's a transaction, but I don't know what value i could offer them in return for a referral? Or how I could get them interested in referring me?

Any tips?

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I was wondering if it is unethical or rude to not respond to some recruiter messages at all or to random people asking if you're available to start a business on LinkedIn? I have a lot of them and know what's it like to be ghosted by companies as an interviewee so wouldn't want to offer the same treatment, on the other hand it takes me a lot of time to craft even a single answer, what's your take on this ? To be honest some offers are also low-ball offers that it makes me not want to respond at all :)) but I wouldn't want to be rude to people.

Is it considered a red flag and unprofessional by big tech staff to use emojis on Linkedin? Emojis like:

- "🎓 Graduated from x"
- "💻 over 10 years of experience building..."
- "🚀 Reduced page loading time by x second and..."

platforms:

• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Youtube
• Instagram
• Tiktok

Curious to know what people's experience with different platforms has been?

Can be in terms of actual value added to people maybe people get less value from twitter than youtube?

Or how hard it is to grow your followers?

Or how much a follower is worth?

Mechanics of content on different platforms -- what drives a follow/subscribe on LinkedIn vs. twitter?

I'll start:

On linkedin you already have a follower base so its easy to start

on twitter I see that youre basically starting from scratch and if youre not a CEO or someone doing something cool then its hard to get followers there

I just signed an offer with one of my dream tech companies that significantly increases my comp. I'm excited to be starting, but nervous about hitting the ground running. Will be making liberal use of Taro courses to guide me!

I have 3 questions:

1. should I tell people on my team where I'm going? I don't see how I get around this. My concern is I don't want people to be envious that I'm leaving for a better opportunity that pays a lot more. I think it's unavoidable, and I imagine this just comes down to being as considerate and professional as I can be.

2. This is about balancing finishing up at my old job and preparing for my new one. I know good practice is to prep an offboarding plan and try and tie up as many loose ends as possible. Regardless, there are simply things I won't be able to do in the 2 weeks I have left. Then there's prepping for my new job. I don't have familiarity with a bunch of the tools we're using and want to do anything I can to prep for it since I want to make a good impression when I start and I know the pace of my new job will be at least 2x what it is in my current one. Basically, this comes down to should I take time out of my remaining 2 weeks to prep for my new job the way I did when I was interviewing and trying to get my new job? I feel like there's no right answer here, just a spectrum. What I'm thinking right now is I'll try working with my current manager and getting a reasonable amount done in my old/current job for every day I have left, but no more than that. All other time will go to prep.

3. Should I post that I got my new job on LinkedIn? Similar to my first question, I'm sensitive to how others may feel. Equally important, I don't feel secure in my job and feel like I only want to post about it or switch my status after I feel a certain level of comfort there (if it ever comes) or time spent there (more deterministic). If I were not to list it on LI, I would either need to have myself still working at my old job or appear to be unemployed.

Thanks!

I just applied to a job at a unicorn. LinkedIn helpfully told me that I have a mutual connection. That mutual connection turned out to be someone I was in university with 8 years ago who was and is super smart and is now a Principal at the unicorn. LinkedIn encouraged me to make use of the connection, and helpfully prepopulated a message to send:
"Hi John, I hope you're doing well! I recently applied to this job ({linkedin link}) at {unicorn}. Would you be willing to tell me more about your experience at the company? "

I added (because you can't just use the prompt):
"Really cool that you're a Principal at {unicorn} and got to build it from the ground up!"

I got back an instant reply:
"Hey Bill. Hope you're doing well. Yeah sure, what do you want to know about it?"

At this point, I realized I am in a pickle, and am making all the classic networking errors. I'm trying to use my alum acquaintance to help me get into the company and give me some sort of edge. But this is always very transparent and unattractive.

I'm not sure what I should ask him to turn this interaction positive. I don't want to ask him pointless questions or questions that are easily searchable. I've already submitted an app, so not sure he can refer me. And I'm not dying to get into this particular company, it's just one of a bunch of apps I sent out. I suppose I could ask him some of the . That's probably best.

I still have to watch the and that will probably give me some insight into how to approach this going forward.

All suggestions are welcome!

Curious to hear about what archetypes you think AI teams follow.

For ex: I think Specialist, Tech Leads are pretty common for AI teams. But we probably have a few archetypes like fixer that are slightly different in the skillset (dig through data, analyze common usecases).

Did meta have any additional archetypes for AI eng types?

Hi everyone, for next 6 months, I will most probably be working on projects which are C/C heavy. For example, project may involve discussing things with A and B teams, finding an engineering design from the abstractions the teams are using and execute it. There might not be much complex items from code perspective and execution may look simple.

While projects like these would give me good credits in terms of cross-team collaboration and communication, I want to be technically competent. Looking back after next 6 months, I don't want to feel bad that from code/eng perspective, I didn't do anything complex.

I understand that probably I should ask my manager for complex/craft heavy item, probably at least once per half but I see some engineers in queue for promotion so there is no guarantee for that.

Any suggestion from the community would help a lot. Thanks!

Does anyone have experience of using this LinkedIn feature? Does it help in any way in the current job market?

Thank you!!

I am early in the career and have managed a few events in the company, so some execs Sr. Manager, Director and Sr. Director recognize me. Whenever I am around them, I get blank and they are the first one to say Hi, how are you doing?

Any high-level tips to get over it? I am also not sure what to talk to them about but probably some company highlights, team things or very general fun things.