Temilola B | Career Blogger

9-5: Data Analytics @Google | 💍🙏🏾🖤🇳🇬 6-?: Bridging career gaps with advice & a splash of humor 😅 📧: [email protected]

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

https://t.co/ab0o2uA81L.Workshop is one year old!! And here is what we achieved this past year:
💥 40 resumes reviewed
💥 24 job interviews secured
💥 17 mock interviews conducted
💥 14 job offers secured
On cloud 9

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This is critical! Please share the word 🙏🏾🖤 you are loved, you belong, it gets better https://t.co/5HKQUBW6Aw

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What is the most desperate thing you’ve done to try to get in touch with a recruiter that ghosted you?

👀👀 I’ll go first: I found the office number for the recruiter, called the front desk, asked for the recruiter and then hung up cause I got scared https://t.co/dieBYwuFeb

[Blind @JoinBlind]

Get used to rejections. Your dream offer might be just a few rejections away.

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Asking for a raise is scary, but don’t link out! It’s your money and you need it… NOW 😅

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Aww thank you for sharing! And yesss 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 don’t give up! 🔥

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

📣 FYI: It is possible to pass a technical interview with a few errors in your code if you’ve talked out your process and the interviewer knows you know what you’re doing! However, error with no explanation is an automatic no ❌
https://t.co/eVzXuNxwsP

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Waiting to get an interview can feel like a lifetime! While you wait:
- keep applying to other jobs
- network (because you never know who could make your process smoother)
- follow up with recruiter (not too many times 😅)
- revise your resume https://t.co/AJjlxMCkaZ

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

Preparing for a FAANG technical interview part 1
#4. EFFICIENCY-you are being tested on your ability to be efficient! Optimized code reduces things like run time. Could you have written that 10 line of code in 3 lines? Did you need to add in a fancy loop or did you just want to?

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Preparing for FAAN technical interviews part 1:
#3. 💥 Practice - sites like Leetcode and hackerrank are phenomenal for practicing your programming and they have their practice problems ranked by difficulty level! It’s important to practice A LOT because you will be coding live!

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

Preparing for FAANG technical interviews part 1
#2. Know the logic- don’t jump straight to programming. Understand the “why” before you learn the how! You will have to talk through what you did and why you did it! You might have to whiteboard during the interview, be ready!

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

Preparing for FAANG technical interviews part 1:
#1. Research what to expect - start with the JD to understand what you will be doing, then use glassdoor or blind to see what other interviewers experienced. What types of coding challenges did they have? etc.

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

If you’re worried about technical interviews, especially at FAANG companies, here are some tips 👇🏾 https://t.co/NaAKara74S

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Women, black women, are leaders. We are analytical, we are go-to people, we are SMEs, we are smart, we are innovative, we can build… we are EVERYTHING 🔥 that is all… carry on

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

Sadly this has happened to me in a number of capacities (NOT at Google)! From clients assuming the male analyst I was managing was my manager to assuming I was there to take notes as questions for the dashboard I built were directed at the notetaker 😩 https://t.co/wgJdlhOMMe

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It has been so long since I wrote a career blog post, but I felt compelled to write and publish this today 🤍

If you’re feeling stuck in your career / like you’re in a career rut, read this! ✨
https://t.co/LgzgiDccgi

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

📣 If you were hiring a nanny for your child. Would you want someone who took a course but has no experience watching children? Or someone who took a course AND has experience watching children?

Experience in addition to certs = competitive https://t.co/VWSaxavub9

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

@kingraybenn I sure did! There are apps like @TeamBlind and websites like @Glassdoor where several people have included their salary and/offer information! Other than that, I also had some people who I trust that shared their salary info with me!

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I was able to negotiate a 55% salary increase with great equity and a sign on bonus because I did my research. Don’t use your former salary as a data point, use market value!

[Google @Google]

The best part of a day off?

Telling Google Assistant: #HeyGoogle, cancel my alarms.

[Temilola B | Career Blogger @LolasWork_shop]

Watch this video if you want specific tips on how to negotiate! 👏🏾 https://t.co/9lecUwkixs