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Yelp Tech Talk


Talk Topics: 

  • Engineering Manager Don L. speaks on: Small but Powerful! Tips & Tricks for Building a Feature-ful Android App
  • Product Manager Ely L. speaks on: What does a Product Manager do? And why might I be interested?

Date: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

Time: 7:30pm-8:30pm

Location: Davis Centre - Colloquium 1302
200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1

At our tech talk, we're providing food and drinks from Taco Farm and raffling off an iPad Mini w/Retina, so remember to bring your CS or engineering resume to get a raffle ticket!

     Talk Abstracts: 

  • We'll share some of the challenges we've encountered building Android features and how we solved them, from the way we maintain model consistency across pages to the way we style our app. 
  • What this "PM" thing is that you've heard about and why CS majors might be interested in the role?

     RSVP here.

If you’re interested in learning more about Yelp’s technical innovations, check out our latest projects on the Yelp Engineering blog, or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.


The fastest way to an epic internship or awesome full-time position is by giving a Yelp recruiter your resume at the career fair or our tech talk. If you just can’t wait, take a look at our college positions on www.yelp.com/careers!

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