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- When he was 29, he managed to land offers from Meta, Uber, and Google within weeks of each other.
- Here's the résumé that got him in the door at Google — and what he'd change on it today.
Sahil Gaba was about to graduate with a master's degree in mechanical engineering when he realized the appeal of computer science.
He noticed that friends who had switched to the computer science field were having a relatively easy time landing jobs — so he decided to try it, too.
"One summer I spent a good three, four months learning programming," Gaba, who grew up in India, told Business Insider.