Hiring amazing software engineers for Seattle, WA and Menlo Park, CA (HQ).

Technical Recruiter

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190+ countries around the world.

 I supported recruiting efforts for the AWS Marketplace team [ https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/ ]. Worked on variety of IC and Management roles including (but not limited to): Software Development, Product, Design, Program Management, Business Development, etc.

Helping the world's most important institutions solve their hardest problems.

 From protecting privacy and civil liberties to promoting open software to pursuing philanthropic engagements to a host of other initiatives, we put our values to work in the service of making the world a better place, every day.

 I focused on Internal Applications (Full-Stack & Data Team), Information Security and Information Technology.

Hired on as the first recruiter in the US and tasked to build out the engineering, sales, marketing and people operations teams. Helped grow the US team from about 15 to 45+.

 Reported directly to the CEO, collaborated with teams across all departments including heavy collaboration with the CTO and engineering team in Bangalore, India.

 Partnered with founders and hiring managers to strategize recruiting efforts including reporting, processes, candidate experience and all else related to recruiting.

Global Talent Hacker

Our team focussed on building leadership teams for some of the most exciting companies around. We worked with entrepreneur-driven startup ventures through to emerging and global brands in online business & E-commerce, convergent media, enterprise & mobile technology, multi-channel marketing, digital advertising and entertainment.

 I provided onsite consulting assistance to drive research, sourcing, recruiting and community efforts.

 ✔ StrongView - [ http://www.strongview.com/ ]

 ✔ Wikia - [ http://www.wikia.com/Wikia ]

Technical Sourcer & Recruiter / Community Manager

The combination of human interaction and technology made my time at Palo Alto Staffing Technology quite enjoyable. Each day presented new opportunities across a vast variety of positions and verticals. I devoted my time and energy to locate the right person for the job.

 Full cycle recruiting of information technology professionals for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire positions. Understanding requirements, sourcing quality and actionable candidates, screening, conducting technical interviews, negotiations, closing deals, and maintaining relationships with consultants and clients.

 ✔ Research and learn new technologies
 ✔ Create highly effective boolean strings to match job requirements and locate top talent
 ✔ Work with a high volume of clients and viable candidates
 ✔ Maintain and track employee records, profiles, and contracts
 ✔ Interaction with candidates and clients for feedback on every submission
 ✔ Ensure accuracy of data entry and system access for colleagues
 ✔ Create, write/edit and post job descriptions to job boards and other sources
 ✔ Provide professional advancement and resume design advice
 ✔ Outreach and a high volume of calls, emails, voicemails, and documentation

My objective was to work closely and collaborate with recruiters and the business development manager to locate and qualify candidates with all types of technical skills. I sourced active and passive candidates across multiple verticals by using advanced search techniques and boolean strings.

 ✔ Collaborate with recruiters and business development managers to locate and qualify candidates with all types of technical skills
 ✔ Source active and passive candidates across multiple verticals by using advanced search techniques
 ✔ Create quality boolean strings to spearhead job requirements and find top-tier talent
 ✔ Research and learn new technologies
 ✔ Maintain and track employee records, profiles, and contracts
 ✔ Outreach and a high volume of calls, emails, voicemails, and documentation

Technical Sourcer

Data analysis, lead generation, sourcing and outreach. In less than eight months I conducted over three-hundred interviews with C-level executives across the east coast. Through my research and outreach, I individually helped Keystone acquire fifteen new clients.

Data & Research Analyst

Recruiting

Seattle, Washington

Spenser Levien

Frameworks are good but could used more mocl examples

Great overview. It really helps to set the right expectation during the prep process. Thanks for sharing loopholes and how the internal process works.

Jay Raj

Great. I'm learning a lot. The trade-off section is really awesome!

Carlos Lourenco

Ramesh Mithas

Used this material to prep for the Facebook "Data Scientist, Product Analytics" role — VERY helpful. The frameworks for answering execution questions were very helpful (like "thinking in extremes"). Ended up picking Google instead but really glad I went through this.

Luishan Zhou

Found out about this course on the Lewis Lin slack: I was on the fence but I'm really glad I bought it. Execution in particular was really helpful, didn't find anything online that went to this level of depth. I nailed the tradeoff question in my onsite (and really struggled with tradeoff questions before). Waiting for my final offer now

Scott Sanders

 - I like the product sense framework in this course, it really emphasizes the importance of user needs (over the traditional CIRCLES method)
 - For execution, there's videos on goal setting, troubleshooting and tradeoffs: I found the frameworks for goal setting + tradeoffs very clarifying
 - I wish there were more example answers for execution
 - David knows his stuff and it's a breath of fresh air

Aditya Kumar

Told all my friends about this course, basically got my RPM offer because of it. David is the real deal! Was lucky to do some mocks with him and it made a huge difference

Ben Wyatt

This is the real deal. Wish there was one for Google!!

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