CSE Undergrad News

Overview:
4/4: Madrona Start Up Office Hours

Madrona Start Up Office Hours
4/4; 11:00 – 12:30pm; Atrium

Startup Office Hours is your time to come and discuss anything startup-related. Hakon Verespej, from Madrona Venture Group, will be available.

You are welcome to come and learn more about local startups, talk about a startup idea you have, get feedback on a project you’re working on, have your resume reviewed, or anything else you have on your mind.

Hakon can also be reached at hakon@madrona.com for questions regarding the office hour or anything else he can help with.

Amazon’s Women in Engineering group is hosting the first annual AWEsome Evening Celebrating Women in Engineering! Please join us to learn how women are impacting Amazon and technology.

At the event, you will experience:

• Amazon product and service showcases
• A talk by Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College
• A meet and greet with technical women at Amazon

Date: Monday, April 1, 2013
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Amazon SLU Campus, Arizona Auditorium; 207 Boren Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
RSVP: http://awesomeevening.eventbrite.com/

Overview:
3/14: Madrona Start Up Office Hours
3/14: Google Office Hours

Madrona Start Up Office Hours
3/14; 11:00 – 12:30pm; Atrium

Startup Office Hours is your time to come and discuss anything startup-related. Hakon Verespej, from Madrona Venture Group, will be available.

You are welcome to come and learn more about local startups, talk about a startup idea you have, get feedback on a project you’re working on, have your resume reviewed, or anything else you have on your mind.

Hakon can also be reached at hakon@madrona.com for questions regarding the office hour or anything else he can help with.

Google Office Hours
3/14; 12:00 – 1:00pm; Atrium

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3/7: Madrona Start Up Office Hours

Madrona Start Up Office Hours
3/7; 11:00 – 12:30pm; Atrium

Startup Office Hours is your time to come and discuss anything startup-related. Hakon Verespej, from Madrona Venture Group, will be available.

You are welcome to come and learn more about local startups, talk about a startup idea you have, get feedback on a project you’re working on, have your resume reviewed, or anything else you have on your mind.

Hakon can also be reached at hakon@madrona.com for questions regarding the office hour or anything else he can help with.

Overview:
2/28: Google Office Hours
3/1: ACM Winterfest

Google Office Hours
2/28; 12:00 – 1:00pm; Atrium

ACM Winterfest
3/1; 4:30 – 7:30 pm; Atrium

Mark your calendars! Come join us at Winterfest for food, drinks*, and games! All CSE faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students are welcome.

When: March 1, 2013; 4:30 – 7:30pm
Where: Atrium
Cost: Free for ACM chapter members*; $5 for non-members.

Want to help set up? Contact the ACM officers at acm-officers[at]cs…

*Must be 21+ and have ID to consume alcohol. Non-alcoholic beverages also provided. 🙂
**Not an ACM member but want to join? No problem! Bring $8 to sign up for free admission to future events!

Sponsored by Tableau and Microsoft.

Note: We’ve updated the time from 4:00-8:00pm to 4:30-7:30pm. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Overview:
2/19: Context Relevant Tech Talk
2/20: Simply Measured Tech Talk
2/21: Madrona Startup Office Hours
2/21: Google Office Hours
2/21: Apptio Tech Talk

Context Relevant Tech Talk
2/19; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105

Simply Measured Tech Talk: From Clueless to Crushing It
2/20; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 125

How to go from having no clue what to do, to crushing the analytics reporting market. Who we are, what we do, and the Big Data and Engineering problems we deal with.

Short presentation followed by open Q&A with Director of Engineering, Colin Henry.

www.simplymeasured.com/careers

Simply Measured is actively Hiring:
• Software Engineers
• Product Engineers
• Ops Engineers
• QA Engineers

Madrona Startup Office Hours
2/21; 11:00am – 12:30pm; Atrium

Startup Office Hours is your time to come and discuss anything startup-related. Hakon Verespej (http://www.linkedin.com/in/verespej), from Madrona Venture Group, will be available Thursdays from 11am to 12:30pm in the atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center. You are welcome to come and learn more about local startups, talk about a startup idea you have, get feedback on a project you’re working on, have your resume reviewed, or anything else you have on your mind. Hakon can also be reached at hakon@madrona.com for questions regarding the office hour or anything else he can help with.

Google Office Hours
2/21; 12:00 – 1:00pm; Atrium

Apptio Tech Talk
2/21; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105

Come join the team!

Voted as one of The Best Places to Work in Washington State, Apptio is looking for the best and the brightest to join our software engineering team!  At Apptio, we have a true sense of community built on collaboration, innovation and fun! What you will do at Apptio matters and will have a direct impact on our customers and our business.  Bring your passion for coding, pack your favorite Nerf Gun and join us as we grow to be the next enterprise level software company in the Puget Sound!

Current Job openings at Apptio
•    Interns (SDE and SDET)
•    Application Engineer
•    Technical Support Analyst
•    Software Development Engineer (Applications, Platform, Data)
•    Software Development Engineer in Test

Overview:
2/5: Isilon Tech Talk
2/6: eBay Tech Talk
2/7: Zillow Tech Talk

Isilon Tech Talk
2/5; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105

EMC Isilon will be coming to UW! Jason Behmer, EMC Isilon Software Engineer and UW Alum, will lead a tech talk about High Performance File Systems and answer your questions about engineering careers with EMC in Seattle. Brilliant engineering discussion with a side of pepperoni. Join us!

eBay Tech Talk: Algorithmic Game Theory of eBay’s Buyer-Seller Matching
2/6; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 125

Speaker: Kamal Jain, Distinguished Research Scientist

Kamal is a scientist interested in the interface of technology and business innovation. He earned his doctorate from Georgia Tech in 2000 in areas consisting of computer science, mathematics, & operation research. He is well known in both academic community and technology industry. He has published 75+ research papers in top notch conferences and journals. One of his papers inspired a book on iterative methods in algorithms. He has also published 100+ patents, a third of which have already been granted. He enjoys mentoring. He has mentored dozens of PhD students, most of whom are now at top universities & companies.

Zillow Tech Talk
2/7; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105

Please join David Beitel, CTO, and Garrett McAuliffe, VP, as they talk about Zillow’s technology.

David Beitel – Chief Technology Officer As CTO, David manages the Technical Engineering team and is responsible for all website, mobile and internal product development, corporate IT, and datacenter operations. One of the initial members of the Expedia team, David held many leadership roles in product development during his 10-year tenure there. Before his Expedia years, David worked at Microsoft in the handheld computing group. David earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s of engineering degree in computer science from Cornell University.

Garrett McAuliffe – Vice President – Engineering Garrett joined Zillow in 2005 and currently leads the Mobile Technology strategy for Zillow. He’s worked in the Consumer Internet space as a technology leader for companies like Expedia, Inc. and Microsoft. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Irvine in Computer Science.

Zillow’s mission is to empower people to make smart home-related decisions.

Overview:
1/28: VMware Open House
1/28: Google Tech Talk: Inside Google X
1/29: Redfin Tech Talk: Where Ideas Come From
1/30: Mock Technical Interviews
1/31: Amazon Tech Talk

VMware Open House
1/28; 3:00 – 5:00pm; Seattle office

Attention CS students! Please join us for an open house at VMware’s local Seattle office!

Interested in checking out VMware’s Seattle location? If so, sign up for an opportunity to meet with a few of our R & D leaders and Seattle employees on-site and learn more about our full-time and intern opportunities for students. Interested in meeting with us?

You must have RSVP’d to this event by January 24. Note: you will need to arrange your own transportation/carpool to our location.

Google Tech Talk: Inside Google X
1/28; 6:00 – 7:30pm; EEB 125

UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille, a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon on leave at Google X, will begin by providing an overview of activities at Google X.

Nick Hobbs, a graduate of Olin College and a PM at Google X, will discuss the Driverless Car Project.

Plan on roughly 60 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of Q&A.

RSVP here to ensure we order enough food: http://news.cs.washington.edu/2013/01/16/google-x-talks-at-uw-cse-january-28-6-p-m/

Redfin Tech Talk: Where Ideas Come From
1/29; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105

Every new company starts with one thing: an idea. how do you build an idea that’s sustainable and marketable enough to become a successful business?

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman is coming to discuss how to plant the seed that will grow a thriving company. With useful tips for starting your own business and unlikely suggestions for drumming up ideas, you’ll learn how to tell the difference between total genius and total flop, so you know when to go all-in or walk away.

Glenn founded Plumtree Software in 1997, staying through its 2002 IPO. He now runs Redfin, one of Seattle’s premier pre-IPO consumer internet companies with $7 billion in real estate sales. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, TechCrunch and The Wall Street Journal; he was featured on “60 Minutes” and “Today.”

Everyone is welcome. Sushi provided. redfin.com/college

Mock Technical Interviews
1/30; 6:00 – 8:15pm; Atrium

Mock technical interviews afford students the opportunity to participate in a one-on-one simulated interview. Engineers, hiring managers, and other technical employees of local software companies conduct the technical interviews which consist of whiteboard questions, problem solving puzzles and coding questions.

Interviews last 30 minutes with an additional 10 minutes allotted for interviewers to give the students honest feedback on how they did and what they can do to improve their technical interview success.

Amazon Tech Talk: Amazon.com Personalization: Item to Item Collaborative Filtering
1/31: 6:00 – 7:15pm; EEB 105

Brent Smith- SDE Sr. Manager and Director of Personalization

Amazon is hiring Software Development Engineers for: Internships, Co-ops, and Full-time

We’ll be giving away Amazon swag and free food!

A reminder that all CSE undergraduates are urged to take advantage of the Resume Review Workshop in the CSE Atrium on Wednesday, January 16 between 3:00 and 6:00 pm.

This workshop is designed to allow you to gather tips from the experts to turn your resume drafts into documents that will help land your dream job or internship.

All you need to attend is a few copies of your resume–anything from a rough draft to almost-finished product is fine.  Show up anytime between 3:00 and 5:45 pm (plan on 15-20 minutes per review) to share your resume with up to three HR or technical interview experts from Google, Microsoft, amazon, whitepages, Pariveda, and Tableau Software.  These experts will provide resume advice to get your resume in great shape for the Winter recruiting fair on January 23 and 24.

Overview:
1/14: Twitter Tech Talk
1/15: Facebook Tech Talk
1/16: Resume Review Round Table
1/17: Ooyala Tech Talk

Twitter Tech Talk: Personalization and Recommender Systems at Twitter
1/14: 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 125

Jake Mannix is the Tech Lead of the User Interest Modeling team. He will discuss the state of personalization technology and recommender systems at Twitter, covering topic classification and topical interest/authority graph analysis, training rankers for personalizing content, and the Who To Follow account recommender.

Facebook Tech Talk: Crush your Coding Interview
1/15: 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105

Want to get some inside info on how to crush your coding interviews this winter and spring? Facebook is hosting a presentation on campus that will cover some awesome ways to prepare for interviews with any company.

This talk will be given by Facebook Software Engineers (and UW Alums!). Dinner and SWAG will be provided – see you there!

Please RSVP to this link and check out all of the details: www.facebook.com/crushyourcodinginterview

Resume Review Round Table
1/16: 3:00 – 6:00pm; Atrium

In this workshop, HR reps and recruiters (or other people within companies who screen résumés or serve as the first or second-line reviewers) sit with small groups of CSE students for 15-20 minutes per group and critique resumes, offer suggestions and help them refine the way they present themselves on paper. It is a chance for students to get honest feedback about what’s working and what’s not, and to see examples from other students to help them craft a résumé that really works.

Ooyala Tech Talk
1/17: 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105