Tech Career

Top Level

• find your true north
• "Manage Your Tech Career", Wealthfront
• "How do I choose where to work?, Wealthfront"
• "Joining a Startup for the First Time? 30 Actionable Tips From Folks Who've Been There"

Research

• https://angel.co/blog/30-questions-to-ask-before-joining-a-startup

Company Profile / Research

• https://craft.co/
• https://corp.owler.com/
• https://www.zoominfo.com/
• https://growjo.com/

People

• Crunchbase, Linkedin, Twitter etc

Tech / Devel

• survey tech stack
  • Github, BuiltWith, Stackshare, dev blog
• development process
  • waterfall, scrum, agile, kanban etc
  • peer code review, continuous integration, continuous delivery, test-driven, doc-driven, design-drive etc

Business

• Traction

  • AppAnnie, Google Trends, Alexa, builtwith

• Funding / Competitors

  • Crunchbase, Angellist

• User Love

  • Twitter, Facebook, App Store, fan pages etc

• Landscape

  • theinformation.com, firstround review
  • know what you are getting yourself into startup playbook

• Sizing up the market / pie

  • Ways to think about market size

Interview Prep

• "Interview Prep, Hired.com"
• "How to tell your career story without boring your interviewer"
• Triplebyte Blog
• bigO things
• https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
• https://databricks.com/blog/2020/01/22/engineering-intervews-a-hiring-managers-guide.html
• https://yangshun.github.io/tech-interview-handbook/algorithms/algorithms-introduction/
• https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
• https://hackernoon.com/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-consensus-algorithms-d81aae3eb0e3
• https://hackernoon.com/anatomy-of-a-system-design-interview-4cb57d75a53f
• https://blog.pramp.com/how-to-succeed-in-a-system-design-interview-27b35de0df26
• https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview
• https://gist.github.com/vasanthk/485d1c25737e8e72759f
• https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying
• 2-phase/3-phase commit, distributed median, heartbeat/election
• http://dancres.github.io/Pages/
• https://www.hackingnote.com/en/interview/system-design-interview-questions
• https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

Offer Evaluation

• survey Glassdoor and Quora
• Holloway Equity Comp Guide
• "Negotiating your Startup Job Offer", Robby Grossman
• Venturehack
• FirstRound: Comp Tips
• HiringPlan, data provided by Connery, payscale, paysa, levels.fyi, radford, AI Paygrades, indexVentures
• Convincing engineers to join your team
• How not to bomb offer negotiation

Startup Equity

• basic: "How Funding Works"
• Startup Equity Basics
• advanced: "Stock options, RSUs, taxes — a guide for humans", Joshua Levy & Joe Wallin
• What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn
• "A Counterintuitive System for Startup Comp", First Round
• "Option Pool Shuffle", venturehacks
• "Valuing Employee Options", Leo Polovets
• "Employee Equity: How Much?", Fred Wilson
• RSU vs Options
• RSU vs Optoins
• Guide to Early Exercise
• Tender Offer (Carta Q&A)