Evan Lin

Posted on Jan 15 • Originally published at evanlin.com on Jan 15

Summer Tech Fair Taiwan: Job Fair Recap

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Hello everyone, I am LINE Tech Evangelist - Evan Lin. LINE is committed to holding internal technical exchanges, training, and external community gatherings, campus speeches, developer recruitment days, and developer conferences, as well as various other activities. We hope to create more opportunities for technical sharing and cross-national exchanges, and at the same time, continuously recruit outstanding talents to join the LINE Taiwan development engineering team!

This is the first joint recruitment Taiwan Tech Job Fair this year. We hope that more student friends can understand the student internship program brought by LINE. "LINE Tech Star Talent Program - LINE TECHFRESH".

First, let's introduce the first session, which is the LINE TECH FRESH of LINE Taiwan and the introduction of related teams.

TECHFRESH Program Introduction - Evan Lin

First of all, let everyone understand that LINE was established because of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, when many people were worried about their friends' recent situation. So they developed a message communication software through stickers. This also echoes LINE's founding purpose: "Closing The Distance". We hope to use technology to bring people closer to each other, people to information, and people to technology.

LIFE on LINE with AI

From this picture, we can see that thanks to the love of the Taiwanese public. In fact, daily life is full of many LINE-related services. And among them, there are many services that use AI technology to provide users with more convenient services.

In the morning, watch the personalized news provided by LINE Today together, and guess the headlines you like based on the news that users often read.
At noon, when shopping, you may trigger the LINE Beacon service when passing by the MRT station, and the purchase of LINE stickers will also search for keywords based on the image content.
Friends discuss LINE functions and need to know more about how to use them. No need for human customer service, you can get appropriate assistance through LINE Customer Service Helper.
If you receive some suspected fake messages, you can immediately use the artificial intelligence judgment mechanism of LINE Message Verification Helper to tell you the fake news immediately. So you won't become an accomplice of fake news.
Want to find a special restaurant for dinner? You can use LINE SPOT to find the nearest location. And recommend attractions or stores that you may be interested in through AI.
After returning home, you can use LINE Music to play relaxing music, and you can quickly find your favorite songs and singers through AI.
Not satisfied before going to bed? You can use the AI shopping recommendation of LINE Shopping to immediately find the products you are most interested in and save time on ordering.

LINE TECH FRESH Introduction

The LINE Taiwan engineering team recruits students/graduate students from information technology-related departments or those who have some knowledge in this field to join the LINE team for long-term internships (one-year term) every year through the LINE TECH FRESH – Technical Star Talent Program, so that students can observe and learn in an international technology company.

For more content, you can refer to this article: LINE TECH FRESH – Technical Star Talent Program, Internship Experience Revealed

Each intern will be assigned to different teams and serve as a seed engineer in the team. After some internal and training projects, each participating student can understand the development process of cross-national products and the software engineering skills of large companies.

Next, various teams will share their experiences, whether they are TECH FRESH experiences, or many hiring managers with TECH FRESH will share their project training methods and the scope of their responsibilities.

TECHFRESH Internship Experience Sharing - Wei

Next up is Wei, who is currently a full-time development engineer at LINE Music. The speaker was also a full-time opportunity after graduating from the TECH-FRESH internship program. Because it is quite rare for fresh graduates to get an interview opportunity at LINE directly, the interviewers often hope that graduates or fresh graduates have gone through the LINE internship program. Only then can it be confirmed whether it meets the company culture, and through a one-year cultivation, potential developers can receive systematic training.

Why join TECH-FRESH

The speaker first mentioned in the sharing that he accidentally heard that LINE offered an internship program at the campus venue. So he immediately applied on the LINE Career website. After the online test and online operations. He got the interview opportunity, and the interviewer discussed the design ideas and more space for improvement through the projects submitted by the speaker. Then he got the opportunity to intern.

TECH-FRESH Internship Life

In addition to the high-end office chairs and personal work computers, what surprised the speaker the most was the freedom of work and the encouragement of creativity.

Freedom of development:
- You can propose the framework and method you want to develop and use through discussions with your mentor.
Cross-departmental cooperation:
- Through cooperation with other TECH-FRESH, and even learning cross-departmental cooperation (often with cross-national cooperation with Japan). The speaker felt the development process of cross-national products.
Systematic development and online process:
- As one of the top network service providers in the country, all services have strict review mechanisms before they are launched. There are more detailed regulations on how to do code review and related testing specifications during internal development. The speaker, who was a student at the time, learned a lot of experience.
Generous benefits:
- Although they are students on internship, the employee training and related colleague gatherings should not be less. With the launch of many projects, as a contributor to the project, there is also the celebration with the LINE engineering team.

Suggestions for students who want to apply for TECH-FRESH

Finally, for those who are interested in LINE TECH-FRESH, the speaker also has some suggestions.

Good ability to find information:
- LINE often uses new technologies and architectures to try projects, and improves many old workflows through these technologies. The engineers' self-learning ability is very important, so it is very important to establish how to quickly find the information you need.
Online teaching videos and read more source code:
- For self-learning, in addition to a lot of teaching videos online. It is also recommended that students often actively read the source code in open source programs, so that in addition to finding problems by themselves. You can also get used to many coding styles and coding conventions, which will be quite advantageous when applying for internship opportunities.
Do more Side Projects as a way to familiarize yourself with technology:
- By doing more side projects, in addition to understanding the basic process of git and understanding how open source projects are carried out, you can also familiarize yourself with many technologies and understand the difficulties that may be encountered in the development of the technology.

Reference materials:

LINE Career - TECH FRESH Job Description and Application (English)

LINE Music Team Introduction - Cid

Next, the lead of the LINE Music development team - Cid - will share and introduce.

What is LINE Music

LINE Music is an online music streaming platform proposed by LINE. And it has in-depth integration with many LINE functions:

The "LINE ringtone creation" function allows users to download any song offline from LINE MUSIC and edit their favorite music clips to create personalized LINE music ringtones and caller ringtones.
You can also set background music on your LINE profile page.
The "AI smart recommendation" function will update a personal special playlist every day based on the tens of millions of song libraries and personal music click status.
The "one-click sharing in chat room" function allows users to share 30-second song clips with friends in the chat room, even if the other party is not a LINE MUSIC member, they can listen for free.
The latest is LINE MUSIC vocal removal function goes live

For more information about the LINE Music architecture and related functions, please check the introduction in the slides.

LINE HR ONLINE Project Sharing - Libra

In addition to focusing on the rapid iteration of products and the user experience, LINE also cares about the efficiency and rights of its colleagues. Therefore, the development team will also assist in the construction of internal related systems, and must hope that each internal system can adapt to LINE's agile development methods, and also hope that colleagues can save more time.

In daily work, employees may have many problems with forms and processes, and they often ask HR through the internal communication system. However, with the expansion of the company, the amount of that problem may be as high as a dozen a day, which prevents HR from having dedicated time to deal with it, so "HR onLINE" was born.

HR onLINE uses LINE chatbots and related AI advanced functions of natural language processing to classify the problems of each colleague, and can record and schedule the needs of each colleague. It can not only speed up the work efficiency of HR, but also satisfy each colleague who consults.

LINE QA Team Introduction - John Wu

Next, Johnny brought the introduction of the LINE QA team. Because LINE has a lot of products, and they are all high-volume products. When each product goes online, it faces millions of users' traffic, so high-quality gatekeepers are even more important.

The speaker shared that the focus of the QA team is "Diversity", in addition to the relatively balanced ratio of men and women. And there are also colleagues from all over the world. The testing team will be in every company, but the LINE team has the following differences:

There are various different products and services: LINE SPOT for geographic information services, LINE Music for music services, and LINE TODAY for news platforms.
Close integration with the development team: In addition to the final product testing, the QA team will discuss together at the beginning of the development, in order to understand the needs of users. And there are also Automation Engineers, who not only assist in the related deployment functions, but also strengthen the automation testing and verification functions.

Of course, as every engineering team at LINE, they all have an incomparable curiosity and a strong spirit of learning. The QA team regularly holds reading clubs, and through learning "Spec by Example", the software development process and testing process can better meet the needs of users, allowing every engineer to develop more efficiently.

LINE FRESH Campus Competition

LINE FRESH represents the deep connection between LINE Taiwan and students. The LINE Taiwan team is holding the first campus competition at this special moment this year. We hope to invite outstanding players in the campus to use their creativity through the form of the competition, and use LINE's diverse services or open platform technology to create more business possibilities for the Taiwanese industry and provide Taiwanese users with a more comprehensive convenient life experience.

Booth Activities

At the booth at the Taiwan Tech Job Fair, there are also introductions to many services. And through these small games, everyone who participates in the booth can better understand how LINE's services are integrated with daily life.

Turn money into what you like: Answer questions by finding stores that can use LINE Point.
First date is easy: Through the movie information of LINE Today, you can immediately understand the most popular movies now, and it is not difficult to book tickets online.
Magical LINE hidden secrets: Through LINE SPOT, you can find local beverage stores, and you can immediately recommend them to your friends.

Through these small activities, everyone who participates can understand more, and they can also get some exquisite small gifts.

Event Summary

Participated in the comprehensive recruitment fair for the first time, and saw the job-seeking enthusiasm of many students and fresh graduates. I hope that through this event, in addition to allowing each participant to better understand the LINE engineering team, I also hope that the masters will not be shy and join us to create amazing WoW services!

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About "LINE Developer Community Program"

LINE launched the "LINE Developer Community Program" in Taiwan at the beginning of this year, and will invest long-term manpower and resources to hold internal and external, online and offline developer community gatherings, recruitment days, developer conferences, etc. in Taiwan, and has held more than 30 events. Readers are welcome to continue to check back for the latest status. For details, please see:

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