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I've known other folks who, long before it became cool, decided to just chuck it, sell everything and set off for Tierra del Fuego on their motorcycle. It's just a matter of adjusting to a different, sometimes very different, reality.
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There's huge money to be made in just the interview problem space for software engineering. Such that sites like Leetcode exist now and offer premium accounts to view all problems, be able to run solutions as often as you like to see if they work versus being limited in a time period, etc. It's a huuuge racket.
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I can picture that. Seems like employers would end up with cookie-cutter employees.
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did i ever post the story of how i built i my own lawn mowing company? 16, finally got my license, with the stipulation i had to get a job to pay for the expenses before i could get a car. had to drive the parents vehicle until then. made sense. filled out hundreds of applications at everything from quick-lube places, to grocery stores, to pizza delivery. if it was within 10 miles of home, i'd filled out an application there. every one of them, "you don't have any experience".. yeah, because all of these low-pay, entry-level jobs have a great history of being long term career paths... did that for 6 months, couldn't even get a single interview. finally gave up, bought(parental-finance) some well-used lawn mowers that burned more oil than gas from an equipment rental place with my brother, put an ad in the local paper, and set up a weekly mowing schedule... 2 years later, i suddenly had 'work experience'... the whole employment process is such a crock.
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I'd rather find someone that wants my job and can look at things from a different perspective.
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Anyone else watching Thor vs. Hall. 335lb vs 313lb heavyweight match.
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I think it's funny that Toyota has an ad for the gr86 which shows nonstop hooning. I wonder if they'd warranty that car when the transmission gets notchy?
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I learn more pairing on a 35 minute "easy" coding problem with lots of potential roads to "success" than nearly anything else I've found available. Currently working to write some new options, since policy is "gotta code pair". I like to build them so they're impossible to fail (unless you do nothing) and usable at any level. All about approach and the interaction, either coaching or being coached, reviewing, etc. In fact, people that are really good at the academic questions typical of a tech interview are among the worst I've found to work with. It probably doesn't help that my specialty is an area where only one narrow subset of skills is typically what managers and hiring process target...
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Personally when I was interviewing people two jobs ago my go to question was just stuff like: "given an array of elements could you tell me if there's a duplicate?" Super easy, you literally just use a set, one of the easiest data structures to use. No overhead complexity to it, relevant to real life (i.e. you use an API and said API doesn't have a filter function so how do you remove duplicate return values from the list you initially get back, etc.). You can then build on it and ask how you'd do it for a huge log file with millions of lines. Again, pretty easy and relevant and also tells me you understando how to open and read a simple text file. Whereas yesterday I was asked to find the longest monotically increasing subsequence, and they want the ideal, efficient solution, which uses dynamic programming aka recursion, etc.
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@spike021 - I'll admit I'm a little cocky in technical interviews but if it's a good fit you can win people over pretty easily. After getting past all the normal interview stuff and the interviewer asks if I have any questions... this is where I take it.
I say - I don't just work for a paycheck I want to be constantly challenged. Give me your biggest hurdle right now and talk through potential solutions. It can be anything software related from design to implementation to bug fixes. This helps me gauge whether I will be happy working there long term or not, and they see my creative process. 9 out of 10 times you will have a job offer the same day. |
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