An Insider’s Guide on How to Excel in Technical Interviews

This workshop covers the key topics an entry level software engineer and other related positions absolutely must know to pass a technical interview at top-tier IT & Quant companies, as well as personal perspectives and anecdotes that shed light on how technical interviews are conducted. The session will be quite interactive, so be sure to bring some of your most burning questions for Q&A.

Please note that this workshop is only for Stanford MS & PhD students from ICME and the Department of Statistics. Participation in this year’s ICME Xtend Career Forum isn’t required to attend this workshop. If you have any questions, please get in touch with ICME Career Services: Tanya Schornack or Alexis Takagi.

 Christian Lim, Senior Quantitative Software Engineer at Two Sigma Investments, Associate of Computer Science at Columbia University, and Lecturer at MIT

Christian is passionate about teaching on the topics of technical interview preparation and competitive programming. He volunteers as Judge and Problemsetter for ICPC North America Mid-Central region and Judge for ICPC North America Qualifiers, and is the head coach of Columbia's ICPC team. Christian holds a BS in Mathematics, BS in Computer Science, and an MS in Computer Science. After graduating from Stanford, he pursued a PhD in Operations Research at MIT, where he was fortunate to be supervised by Professor Asuman Ozdaglar. He took a leave of absence to work at Google, where he spent nearly 6 years as a Research Software Engineer.