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How big is LiveRamp and what are our office locations?
What is our growth rate?
- ~600 people
- SF, NYC, Philly, Seattle, Boston, Conway, London, Paris, Singapore, Shanghai, Nantong, Sydney
- adding 150+ employees YoY
- $211 million in revenue in fiscal year 2018, a 43% increase from the previous year.
How do I apply?
- Please make sure you register on our Yello app.
- We will followup with you shortly after this event with an email pointing to you to more info about LiveRamp and letting you know about next steps.
- You will not need to apply online, we will be sending you a coding challenge or video interview if we would like to move forward with you in the process.
What skills do we look for in engineers?
- Smart, nice, gets things done
- fantastic communication, strong technical abilities, intellectual curiosity and eager to learn, strategic thinking, creativity, passion
- We are language agnostic so you don’t need to come in with language specific knowledge. A good foundation in CS, data structures, graphs, and algorithms is necessary.
- Experience building high quality, performant and scalable web applications
- Have a passion for building large scale, distributed systems and are comfortable writing high performance code.
- Good diagnostic and debugging sense, the ability to find a needle in a haystack (or a bug in a program stack.)
What is the TERM program? Is it for engineers? Is it product
management?
The Tech Entrance Rotation & Mentorship Program (TERM) is the dream job for new grads who have varying interests and don’t quite know exactly where to use their skills within a high growth technology business. Rotation placements are typically 9-12 months in business-focused roles such as product, operations, marketing, business development, and more. After about 2-3 rotations, TERMs find a permanent home on one of our dynamic teams. It is not an engineer or product role, but we do have TERMs that eventually rotate to these teams.
When looking at a resume or talking to a student, what should you look at/ask first? Why?
Graduation Year. Anyone we hire this year should be graduating between Dec 2018-June 2020 (juniors and seniors). If they are graduating after June 2020, please let them know that we are not hiring Freshman/Sophomores at this time.
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What is LiveRamp's culture? What are you doing about diversity?
- Fast paced, lots of room for growth, ability to take on tremendous responsibility quickly and the room to fail, promote from within, high energy, tight-knit group, challenging technical problems, humble and honest, disruptive, fun (outings, camping, happy hours, etc.), transparent communication
- Diversity is a top priority for LiveRamp. We cultivate a culture that embraces diversity through programs such as Ladies of LiveRamp, sponsoring the Grace Hopper Conference and other diversity events, decorating our office with flags of different cultures, etc.
What is the interview process for Software Engineering Intern?
New Grad?
If you move past our resume screen, then you will be sent a coding challenge. After this, there are two phone interviews with our engineers (one for full time). If you are looking for a full time role, we will bring you onsite to SF or NY for a set of in person interviews. It all wraps up in about 3-4 weeks.
Do you hire for data science or machine learning?
No, LiveRamp's technology is not machine learning since we match data to a deterministic set of identities. Our data science team is tiny and either hires PhDs or internal transfers.
What types of backgrounds do people in TERM usually come from?
What are the qualifications?
TERMs come from all sort of backgrounds, but typically those with an analytical major succeed (economics, math, stats, sciences, cognitive science, computer science, etc.).
Although no technical adeptness is required for this role, we look for those with a proven interest in technology (through classes, clubs, extra circulars) and a track record of entrepreneurship and leadership.
What swag are we giving away? What do you do with it?
Tide-to-go & hand sanitizer kits, octopus chargers, trifold brochures. Please give brochures and swag to every student you speak with at the end of your converstaion (no matter if they are a fit for our roles).
What does a "Do Not Recommend" and
"Future Opportunity" candidate evaluation mean?
Do Not Recommend
- Poor communicator, no strong experience in internships or leadership, did not show interest in LiveRamp, not a culture fit
- We should not reach out to this person to apply
Future Opportunity
- Potentially the right fit, but a Freshman or Sophomore
“So, I don’t know much about LiveRamp. Can you explain your
product to me?”
- Describe an example of onboarding - Imagine you are in Target or Walmart, and when you go to check out they have you sign up for their rewards card. Your name and email address is now attached to this card and teach time you use it they will keep track of your purchase history. They can use this in a few way, maybe to send you relevant coupons to your inbox or send you a push notification on their app. When they want to advertise to you outside of this ecosystem, that is when they work with LiveRamp. LiveRamp acts as the pipes through which these brands can activate their own customer data to advertise onine. We are able to connect all of a consumers different devices adn tie them back to a single identifier. This ensures that when marketers run a campaign, they know they are putting the correct ad in front of the correct person.
- Explain how Facebook walled garden works and relate that to LiveRamp’s unwalled garden - In a walled garden, you can put your data in but you are bound by their terms of service adn their properties. LiveRamp allows companies to still gain this identity component nad utilize it for advertising ont he rest of the open internet (approximately 37%)
What is the interview process for TERM?
If you move past our resume screen, you will be sent a video interview invite. After this, there is one phone screen followed by a onsite in SF for a set of in person interviews.
How many interns & new grads are we hiring?
12 Engineering Interns SF
15 New Grads SF
4 Interns or New New Grads NYC
How many TERMs and Finance interns do we hire?
10 TERMs
6 Finance (Sales Ops, Corporate FP&A, Tax, Investor Relations, Accounting)
What locations are we hiring for?
SF and NYC (eng only)
What does a "Strongly Recommend" candidate evaluation mean?
“Recommend” criteria + you would recommend we prioritize this person when inviting students to on-campus interviews
Tell me about the acquisition and upcoming separation.
LiveRamp was acquired by Acxiom in May 2014. This has given us the boost we need to become a market leader with the financial backing of a marketing data giant. Within the last 4 years, LiveRamp has acquired 3 companies ourselves which has added new verticals and growth. LiveRamp has proven ourselves to be a profitable business and Acxiom has altered it's business model to propel LiveRamp even further. Therefore, we are in preparation mode to become our own stand alone company with the ticker symbol RAMP. The sale of Acxiom's other services will give LiveRamp the resources to invest in our growth, including new initiatives, products, and acquisitions. Investment analysts predict our stock price to double once this change happens, so it is a great time to get your foot in the door!
Are we able to sponsor visas?
- Yes, but only for students with technical degrees who would be working in a technical role (engineering).
- We cannot sponsor visas for TERM or Finance
What are some cool facts/stats about our backend & frontend technologies?
- 170 million unique authentication events online per month
- over 20 billion requests per day on our pixel server
- 95 PB Hadoop cluster (with 95,000 CPU cores) that maintains almost one billion recently matched cookies.
- 1 trillion edges in identity graph
- We integrate with dozens of top companies in order to produce high performance data channels to power all of our products
- We maintain our own suite of websites for managing a large number of data pipelines, as well as a dedicated data storefront
Do you hire interns/new grads outside of engineering, TERM, and finance?
Yes, but those position open up in January. Keep an eye on our website! Typically in marketing, HR, business operations, BD, etc.
If you are traveling for an event, where/how/what do you expense
and when?
Please book your flights/hotel/rental car (if necessary) 4+ weeks before the event through Egencia (in Okta). This will be billed to your teams cost center (you can find this on your workday profile). If you have a corporate AMEX card, please use this to purchase travel and entertainment. If not, purchase on your personal card and submit an expense report via workday expenses.
What does a "Recommend" candidate evaluation mean?
- Student demonstrated strong communication skills, has an impressive resume, and asked good questions about LiveRamp
- This person will be invited to apply to LiveRamp
Explain LiveRamp to your techie friends/family.
The technical version - LiveRamp's core technology is an identity graph made up of ~1 trillion edges and is third in size in scale behind Facebook and Google. The graph is made up of unique identifiers that tie back to actual consumers offline, and also allow us to connect to all of their diferent devices. We then onboard data from Target or Walmart and match it up with what we have in our graph. Once we have the matches, we most commonly push it out to diferent platforms that serve ads.
We also build and host a web platform for clients to upload, move, export, and enhance their data on a self-service basis.
Are we hosting on-campus interviews? How do students sign up?
- Yes! You will be receiving an email if we are interested in setting up on campus interview.
- OCI Universities - UC Berkeley, Univ of Illinois, Harvey Mudd, Dartmouth, Univ of Michigan, UCSD, Harvard, Middlebury, Columbia, Ecole Polytechnique
What is an example engineering new grad/intern project for a full stack team?
- Learn React/Rails best practices by porting legacy code to these modern frameworks, then move on to building new things
- Build generalized React UI elements to be used across our full stack teams on customer-facing UIs
- Build out completely new money-makers like our third-party Data Store — UI and Server.
What is an example TERM project for technical & non-technical
rotations?
Technical - One specific project I pursued on corp was to build out our analytics dashboards to stay on top of customer pain points and drive product changes using client data. While we knew anecdotally what products, workflows, and UI issues were confusing clients and leading to support tickets, we didn’t have a good way of making that clear to other teams. As a solution, I built out Looker dashboards to combine information from Salesforce (support tickets), financial data (revenue), and Admin (product usage). We shared these metrics with other teams to show them what was driving heavy support volume, which the Data Store team used to inform product decisions and support articles.
Non-Technical - Redesign compensation for the engineering organization, from first principles to full implementation. Ensure that compensation decisions are structured, based on market data, and reflective of LiveRamp culture. Ensure that expectations around performance are clearly defined and communicated. Work with engineering leadership to ensure each engineer is leveled according to impact and is compensated accordingly. Create calibration process to ensure levels are applied evenly across the organization. Create documentation around compensation philosophy and procedures such that everyone in the organization understands what is happening and why.
Why don't we hire freshman/sophomores? What advice can you give to freshman/sophomores interested in LiveRamp?
- We are looking to hire students that are within 1 year of graduation because our goal is for every intern to become a full time employee. Those further away from graduation would not be able to commit to a full time job over a year away.
- Work on passion projects outside of class projects. Take on leadership roles within clubs/organizations on campus. If you can, find industry internships rather than summer research.
What does a "VIP" candidate evaluation mean?
"Strongly recommend” + diverse candidate or referral
Do we hire Masters students for engineering internships? How about
engineering new grads?
No, we do not hire Masters students for engineering internships (new grads TBD). The exception would be referrals and students in international MS programs such as Ecole Polytechnique.
What is an example engineering new grad/intern project for backend
team?
- Designing, writing, and putting into production new workflows to process and analyze multi-Terabyte datasets
- Adding new features (like improved batching) to existing production services that process petabytes of data every day
- Developing a generic service to store application metadata from the ground up
- Generally taking part in whatever projects the team is working on, building new services, scaling massive data pipelines, migrating to new technologies, investigating difficult scaling problems, etc
What is an example finance intern project corporate FP&A and
Sales Ops?
Corporate FP&A -One of the projects I worked on last summer involved tracking our customer's variable revenue to better understand how things such as quick adoption, consistent usage, and repeated overages impact future events such as upsell and churn. The most exciting part of this project was that I had the opportunity to work with several teams outside of Finance: I leveraged the Product team to compile customer usage data, the Sales Ops team to understand our pricing structure, and finally sat down with the Sales teams to create action items around the analysis. Not only was this project cross functional, but it also offered a great deal of visibility, and I had the chance to talk with and be recognized by several senior managers because of this project.
Sales Operations Intern - Review, update, and analyze documentation such as pipeline management, revenue forecasting, partnership and integrations tracking, etc.
Create materials for our Learning Management System.
Assist with creation of reports and dashborads within our CRM (Salesforce), Clari (sales analytics tool), and Einstein (business intelligence tool). These reports/dashboards asssist managers make data-driven decisions regarding sales strategy.
What should you ask a student to uncover if they are a good fit for
LiveRamp?
- What type of roles are you interested in?
- Tell me about your background, experience, and why you're interested in LiveRamp.
- What projects have you recently worked on and are proud of? (this is important to gauge communication skills)
- Tell me about your most recent internship/work experience.
- Do you have any questions for me? (gauge their curiosity and interest in LiveRamp)