• The instamentor Podcast

  • By: Leon Wei
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The instamentor Podcast

By: Leon Wei
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  • Welcome to the instamentor podcast. I am instamentor founder Leon Wei, and this is the podcast where I interview industry experts and startup founders who share their experiences, to help you grow your career in tech. Whether it’s landing your first job after school, or switching to a different company.
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Episodes
  • From competing with Google to independent business advisor, an interview with Ittai Shiu

    From competing with Google to independent business advisor, an interview with Ittai Shiu
    Oct 4 2021
    From competing with Google on their advertising budget to an independent business advisor, an interview with business and advertising tech leader Ittai Shiu In this interview, I talked to Ittai Shiu, who is a marketing operation expert and a savvy business leader with 15 years of experience in advertising technology. I asked him about: * His experience in advertising space, how he competed with Google for advertiser budget in the early days; * Unique challenges in scaling up teams when you are in the hyper-growth stage, * His advice to fresh graduates looking for their first jobs, why you should avoid “spray and pray” strategy but really focus on a few roles and go all in; * His experience in working with his own mentors, and advice for others who are looking for mentors If you are interested to learn from Ittai directly, you can now book a 1:1 conversation with him at https://instamentor.com/mentors/ittai-shiu Thank you for listening.
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    24 mins
  • She microwaved fresh lettuce as an international student who never ate a salad, now a fearless female leader in tech | Chen Zhao

    She microwaved fresh lettuce as an international student who never ate a salad, now a fearless female leader in tech | Chen Zhao
    Aug 25 2021
    In this interview, I talked to Chen Zhao, a seasoned female leader in the tech industry, who's worked at some of the biggest technology companies in the world including Amazon, Microsoft, Tableau, and Deloitte. I asked her about: 1. Unique challenges as a female leader working in the tech industry, 2. Her best advice for female young professionals who want to break into tech; 3. How to decide which company/team to join after receiving multiple offers; 4. Why Amazon really values their leadership principle, and why it’s so important for the company culture? 5. Why does the data dashboard often fail and the 3 major factors (design, data/SQL, understanding the business) that lead to a great data visualization or a dashboard? 6. How several mentors encouraged, inspired, and helped grow her career. 7. In the end, we talked about her hobby in painting.
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    36 mins
  • Product owner’s mindset: software engineers key to career advancement | Chunzhao

    Product owner’s mindset: software engineers key to career advancement | Chunzhao
    Aug 17 2021
    Title: Product owner’s mindset: software engineers key to career advancement. In this interview, I talked to Chunzhao, a software architect with 15 years of software engineering experience, who currently works on Facebook’s distributed AI projects. I asked him about: His experience landing a return job offer after completing an internship at Amazon; Shift in the job requirements and expectations in the tech industry over the last 10 years; Pros and cons of working at a large tech company (FAANG) vs startups; Challenges in distributed AI vs. traditional centralized machine learning; In the end, we talked about a crazy business idea in AI. If you are interested to learn from Chunzhao directly, you can book a 1:1 conversation with him at instamentor.com/mentors/chunzhao . I hope you enjoy the interview.
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    28 mins

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