Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 11th and 12th 2014

Gayle McDowell

CareerCup
About Gayle

Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder and CEO of CareerCup.com and the author of three books:

  • Cracking the Coding Interview (Amazon.com's #1 best-selling interview book)
  • Cracking the PM Interview (product manager)
  • Cracking the Tech Career
    She is an interview consultant, helping companies improve their interview process and coaching startups through acquisitions/acqui-hires. She is also an interview prep instructor, hired by Facebook to teach an interview prep class for external software developer candidates.

Gayle has worked as a Software Engineer for Google, Microsoft and Apple. She holds a BSE and MSE from UPenn in Computer Science, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

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Speaking Sessions

  • Cracking the Product Manager Interview

    11:15 AM Saturday   Room: 5015
    Product managers are sometimes called the "CEO of a product." But what is a product manager really and how you do you land this role? This talk will discuss what a product manager is, how the role differs across companies, what sort of experience an aspiring PM should cover, and what the PM interview is like and how to master it. This will not be your fluffy be-your-best talk; it will tackle the specific types of interview questions and how to handle them.

  • Cracking the Coding Interview

    1:45 PM Saturday   Room: SmithWick
    CS interviews are a different breed from other interviews and, as such, require specialized skills and techniques. This talk will teach you how to prepare for coding interviews, what top companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft really look for, and how to tackle the toughest programming and algorithm problems. This is not a fluffy be-your-best talk; it is deeply technical and will discuss specific algorithm and data structure topics.