Taro (YC S22)

how it started vs how it's going

A bi-monthly standup dedicated to flourishing a strong side-project/start-up community within Taro, hosted by Devon C. This will be used as an accountability tracker to discuss what you've been working on. Starting March 28: https://lnkd.in/gRB9SRZs

NEW COURSE 💯: Ace The Machine Learning System Design Interview by former Meta Staff MLE Ilya Reznik https://lnkd.in/ggbh9D5Y

Group Office Hours With Alex Chiou (Taro cofounder) - Get Personalized Career Advice Privately: March 19 https://lnkd.in/gmVper6F

Join us in Palo Alto for the Silicon Valley Taro meetup on March 22! Come by to: - Network with 75+ talented and ambitious tech workers - Enjoy snacks and drinks (yes, we will have Taro boba!) - Meet Alex, Rahul, and other industry veterans from companies like Meta, Robinhood, Google, and Pinterest For this meetup, we're also doing something special by hosting focused Big Tech discussion groups. Each of these groups will be led by a very experienced engineer from that company, and we'll talk about how to succeed at that company. Both engineers working at the company (both past and present) and those interested in working there are welcome to attend. Join here: https://lnkd.in/gH7FMhdR

Paper Reading: Attention is All You Need, by Mandar Deshpande Deep dive led by a Meta engineer into this seminal research paper published by researchers at Google in 2017, introducing the Transformer model. The paper revolutionized natural language processing and machine translation by proposing a new architecture that relies solely on self-attention mechanisms, eliminating the need for recurrent or convolutional layers. https://lnkd.in/g-kzXyW8

Let me treat you to boba 🧋 at our Bay Area meetup, happening March 22 😍 It's always incredible to meet people in real life instead of just seeing their names in the Taro Premium Slack. Magic happens when you bring ambitious (and helpful) people together. Join us next Saturday: https://lnkd.in/gXddxt-h ps. if you're a developer-focused company looking to sponsor the event, please email team@jointaro.

Different round types of interviews in FAANG Generally, after passing the phone interview, the next step is the onsite, which is typically 3 to 5 rounds, 1-hour each, where you will be tested for a wide range of technical and non-technical competencies. What to expect in each round: https://lnkd.in/gmZ8QJf9

Use A 3rd Party Solution Or Build Yourself In Big Tech https://lnkd.in/gNYntn3q