Google engineers advise Vietnamese students to graduate with a salary of 2,000 USD / month: Go to the US to do it!

Before the question of student Pham Thi Thanh, "How do I study and work so that employers here can accept me with a starting salary of US $ 2,000 / month?" , Mr. Duong Ngoc Thai – currently being Google's security engineer gave the following answer:

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Open letter to students who want to have a starting salary of 2,000 USD / month

I think your question is very good, practical, can't be more clear.

I was disappointed with the answers, because they were completely off-topic.

You ask how to study, but the answers only focus on $ 2,000 per month. You ask what to do, but people just answer around. I hastily wrote this letter for no other purpose than to give you a more informative answer.

2,000 USD / month is a high salary in Vietnam, but students who go to practice in the US have received 6,000 – 8,000 USD / month, 10-year engineer salary can be up to 500,000 – 1,000,000 USD / year.

The short answer is to learn to work abroad .

If your level is sufficient to work in the US, Europe, Singapore, etc., working in the country will also be worthwhile.

Specifically:

1 / See the first part of the Silicon Valley Experience . The prerequisite is to listen, read, speak and write English. No need to be excellent, but at least read the book, watch the movie without subtitles, quickly reflex when communicating, chat in English.

2 / Study well in school subjects, find scholarships to study abroad. Read books, attend classes of major universities in the world introduced in the article How to do information security ?

3 / Play CTF regularly to practice reality, contribute to open source projects to gain experience.

4 / Create an account on Twitter, follow hacker hackers to update news and build relationships with the information security community in Vietnam and around the world.

5 / Find opportunities to be paid interns for foreign companies or domestic companies with good security teams such as Viettel or VNG.

6 / Find more work at home related to work as soon as possible. Such as programming, software safety verification, etc.

Finally, you may not be able to reach your starting salary target of $ 2,000 a month or not finding a job abroad, but I firmly believe that setting a big goal and pursuing it to the end will help you progress. nonstop.

I think daily progress is the most important goal. You have to learn and do it so you know more about it tomorrow, the next year you can do things that you didn't know last year.

Knowledge and experience like gross interest rates, the more you know, the more opportunities you have to know more.

If you continue to work hard and work, at some point, you will be so good that one cannot ignore you (so good they can't ignore you). At that time, you choose a company, not a company to choose you. And when the option is mine, don't say $ 2,000 / month even $ 20,000 / month is completely within reach.

Good luck.

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