Hi. Thank you for joining us for this exponent demo session. My name is Elaine Lu. I am a career coach at Cornell Career Services. And today I'll be facilitate this demo session with my colleague Stephanie, who is the assistant director of Data and systems. To start off, I will be pulling up the website for exponent. I'm going to start by sharing my screen. Can you see my screen? Yes. Okay, with exponent, this is a platform that supports students or interview candidates for any career or interview process related to tech fields. This is a free resource for students or alumni, or any Cornell staff members with Cornell net ID. So the first thing that you would do is click login and you can log in with university within the university, you want to find Cornell University. Once you click Cornell University, it will direct you to a different page. I already logged in, so it will redirect you to a Cornell page where you'll login with your Cornell information- your net ID and password. And from there it will bring you to exponent's welcome back page. Within the welcome back page, this is the main page and this is a really good section where you can share your career goals. By setting this goals section, it'll allow exponent to create a unique experience based on where you are at or where you're standing with your application or your interview process. For tech industry roles, you can select from finding opportunities, passing resume screening, acing my interviews, negotiating my offers, and so on. You can also select on areas that you want to focus on in specific roles. There's product management, there's areas for engineering, operations, design, marketing, data, sales, finance, and consulting. In the bottom, you can also filter out any companies that you are interested in. Once again, once you fill out this career goal form sheet, it allows exponent to create a unique experience based on where you are at for your process. Today Stephanie and I will be going over some of the key features that are offered for Cornell students, alumni and staff members, or even faculty members. Within the course section, there are over 30 different courses to help support any tech interview process. You can filter out from PM, EM, SWE. System design, data science, UX, product designs, there's behaviors and there's also some sections more geared towards industry specific. Today I will just be review one of the courses. As an example, let's just say I'm interested in software engineer opportunities and I want to look for applying to Amazon from here, just filtering out. I was able to see an Amazon software Development engineer interview course and other modules as well. And once I click on Start Learning, it will direct me to the course. Within this course, it will have different modules and lessons that are all complete at your own pace. These modules are created by folks who were in this position previously or similar positions, and also folks who are founders or employees of exponents. As you scroll down a little bit more, what you'll learn in this specific course for Amazon Software Engineer is Amazon Leadership Principle Fundamentals of system design, system design questions, data structures and algorithms, coding interview practice, behavior interviews for software engineers. If I scroll back up and click on the Amazon Leadership Principle, this will go over more of the behavior side and what Amazon values in their candidates. They'll talk about the importance of the leadership principles. And they'll talk about each of the leadership principles from customer obsession to ownership. They also explain what they're looking for in their candidates when they're answering these questions related to the leadership principles. And it's all related to behavior interviews. As you can see, these are video icons on each section and you can watch them to develop a better understanding of each of these principles. If we click on customer obsession as the first example, you will see a 23 minute video with a candidate and an interviewer. with the candidate- This is their first time hearing this question. They are not exposed to it. This is an opportunity for you to gain experience, to hear a real life example of how someone answers interview behavior questions related to Amazon's core values. You also have access to the prompt two, this says tell me about a time you saw a pain point for customers with the interviewer and interviewee. They'll break down the question and go over what went well, what are areas to improve on for each of these section? You can also put in a comment of your thoughts and send a feedback. All these videos on all these modules are all go at your own pace. If we go to the next section which is Fundamental System Design, they'll go over intro video of what Fundamental of System Design is and a little description of each of the goal of the course. There's introduction, how to answer system design questions with a sample video with prompts as well as what interviewers are looking for with notes and tips really support you throughout the interview process. There's also rubrics involved as well, so you have a better understanding of what interviewers are looking for and their candidates. I just want to clarify that these modules and these courses within exponent does not replace a course or any of these coding languages or skills. This is just for you to prep or be exposed to what will happen during a technical interview. So this is a really good way to practice any of these tech skills. within the system design questions. They give examples of what might be asked during a system design question. There's a sample that goes over design a URL shortener, design Instagram, design Amazon Prime. Within each of these section, there's a video that you can watch and you get to experience how a candidate is answering their interview question. And you can also provide feedback and also read other people's notes of how they answer. This is a good way to allow you to understand what type of framework or how you can structure your answers. Next section is Data structures and Algorithm. This is a really good way to refresh your memory for these key terms and how sorting algorithm is, binary search, graphs and trees, and so on. These are literature just for you to review. If we go to the coding interview practice, this is a really good section because it's like a gameification or a practice session for you to test out your code and your experiences. You see a bunch of different coding interview practice sections that you can participate in and they all go at your own pace. As you can see, there's a prompt right here, there's an example. There's some hints if you have any trouble with. They also provide a full solution. You can also filter out based on which type of code you want to focus on. And you can also type in the code here of how you plan on answering it and you can run and test the code. This is a really good way to practice your coding. If we scroll down more again here, the last section is the behavior interview. Within the behavior interview, it goes more in depth of what to expect during a behavior interview. Once again, this is a Amazon Software Development Engineer module. It'll go over more in depth of what to expect for behavior interview for software engineers. It talks about how to create a story, how to use start method for your framework of answering those questions. There are videos for each section for you to learn more about it. And there's also candidates in an interview who are doing a practice session to you, so you have an idea of how the candidate is answering your question Within this course, as mentioned earlier, there are over 30 different sections that you can explore. If you scroll down more, you'll see more industry specific ones, product skills courses. There's even a section of how to negotiate for your tech job offer. Now we'll be going over the question section. The interview question section is a really unique experience for students, especially if they're interviewing with a tech company and they want to prepare for the interview questions. Think of this as an online community or online form where you can connect and see how other professionals or other interview candidates are responding to their technical questions or even behavior. You can filter out by specific roles, specific companies categories, what is hot, what is popular, and the newest one. And if there's any video samples that you can watch, let's just say we click on the popular one right here. It's asking about this company, Amazon, and other companies are asking what's your favorite product and why. There's another one that says, tell me about time. You had to make a decision to make short term sacrifices or long term gains. If you click on one of these questions, as you can see for this specific sample, there's a video and there's a community that are each providing solutions and different solutions. You can read more about how people are answering their questions. You have an idea how others are structuring. And you can also vote it based on if you agree or disagree. And you can see which vote is the most popular vote. This is a really good way to see how other people are answering, whether it's other candidates or even other students. Now I'm going to pass on to Stephanie to go over the Peer Mock section, which is practice interviews with other candidates. Great, thank you, Elaine. The Peer Mock interview tab here allows students to be matched with another exponent user to practice interviewing. Now these sessions are held every day at 11:00 A.M. and 09:00 P.M. Eastern Time. students- When they go into these mock interviews, they will be matched with other users based off of the attributes that each student filled out during the orientation or goals sheet when they first logged into exponent, where you told us what stage of the interview process you're in, what competencies you are interested in, et cetera. There are over 1 million users on this platform. Students are almost guaranteed to be matched with someone. Now when students are matched, they are put into a room that is very similar to a zoom room, and each session lasts about 60 minutes or an hour. We do recommend that you take a few minutes to introduce yourselves and get to know each other before starting the interview. There is also a link there in the session to the Interview questions tab that each student can use as a guide. If you are stuck or unsure of which questions to ask, students here can determine how their time is spent in each session. For example, they can ask questions back and forth for about 45 minutes and then leave the remaining time to provide feedback to each other. Or it can be split up at whichever way is comfortable for both students. Nine out of ten times as exponent has asked for feedback, this has been the most popular feature for our students. This is a great way to again, connect with other students and practice those interviewing skills that you have. Students can also fill out a feedback form after the session. This is a little bit different than providing that feedback during the session, is a quick form to rate their partner and provide constructive feedback for that other student or partner. There is also an area where students can give, give feedback to exponent directly about how the sessions went if they do have any feedback for maybe improving the experience, for example. again this is available every day at 11:00 A.M. and 09:00 P.M. for our students. Going over to the coaching tab. This coaching tab is available to all of our students. However, the feature is not included in Cornell's current subscription. If a student wanted to take advantage of working with these expert coaches on mock interviews, negotiations, or communication coaching, there will be a fee to the student before getting that expertise or getting that guidance as well. Moving to the Job Referrals tab. And this Job Referrals tab will be, if you hover over the three dots there to the right of coaching, you'll find this tab. This is where students can submit a referral request form by filling out required information about the role, providing additional candidate information like your linked in profile. Get a referral from current employees at whichever role an employer you're looking to interview with. There's generally a 25% fulfillment rate on these referrals as well. It's a great way, again, to get those referrals and get a little bit more guidance in the interview process as well. Scrolling back up here to the company interview guides, this again is under those three dots. These tabs include different overviews of roles at top companies and details of what an applicant is expected to know for their role. For example, Elaine, if you wanted to click into the first tile for the Facebook data scientist interviews. This will bring up several sections. Some of those sections are, what does the data scientist at Facebook do? Different interview stages of a Facebook data scientist interview. Sample interview questions. It will also include different tips and strategies from experts from Facebook that have worked at Facebook as well. These overviews can also list typical job requirements. For example, if something required Tableau or SQL or Python knowledge. Those requirements will be listed here as well. A lot of them also provide a step by step process of what the entire interview process may look like at these different companies. Lastly, under the same three dots, there will be a blogs tab. This is available again to all students. It includes the latest blogs on product management, software engineering, and other tech roles. This new content is updated regularly. It's a great resource to stay up to date on the latest updates in the industry as well.