Want a Tech Job? Advice...

The Washington Post (August 8) -- Advice on how to prepare, from Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr and more. Mayank Jain will be a junior this fall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is working this summer at a startup in San Francisco, helping to develop an iPhone app. He said he wants to launch his own startup after college and was impressed with UI’s strong computer science department and “spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation.” (He’s also quick to point out that Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, and Mark Levchin and Luke Nosek, PayPal founders, attended UI.) “The old paradigm of education was that you get good at one thing and you do that one thing for the rest of your life,” Jain says. “Nowadays, students don’t know what jobs are going to exist in the next two to three years. It’s becoming less and less important to teach specific things and more important to teach how to think critically and solve problems.”