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.

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.

In this interview, I talked to our latest mentor, Alex Chao. Alex is currently a principal product manager at SambaNova Systems, an AI chip company. He was the first data scientist hire at Uber ATG (Advanced Technology Group), Uber's self-driving car division. Alex has held product management roles at C3.ai building out their ML Platform and deep learning offering to enterprise customers. Alex is motivated to help raise the next generation of data scientists and product leaders If you are interested to learn from Alex directly, you can book a 1:1 conversation with him at instamentor.com/mentors/alex-chao.

In this episode, I interviewed Sam Yang, who is an entrepreneur, investor, and a Stanford MBA, also latest mentor on instamentor.com. If you are interested in talking to Sam and learning from him directly, you can find him on instamentor and book a 1:1 conversation. https://instamentor.com/mentors/sam-yang/