Career Switcher’s Guide to Your Dream Tech Job, Part 1

Pro-Tips to Land the Interviews at Your Dream Companies

David Tian
Towards Data Science
21 min readOct 4, 2019

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Introduction — From Wall Street to Googleplex

On March 31, 2019, I was downsized by a startup hedge fund. Having been a quantitative software developer in the finance industry for the last 10+ years, I didn’t want another job doing more of the same. I set out to follow my passion and find my next job in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning (AI/ML/DL). Over the next 6 months…

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Hacker, tinkerer, and engineer. I am passionate about machine learning, AI, and anything technology related. DeepPiCar GitHub: https://github.com/dctian