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I've been successfully employed the valley for over a decade (and other tech work before that). I've never done a practice interview, I don't worry about my Git

by rconti 8y ago

I've been successfully employed the valley for over a decade (and other tech work before that). I've never done a practice interview, I don't worry about my GitHub. I agree with the cargo culting comment. Work on your network. Apply for jobs that interest you. Interview. Get job.

ashwinaj 8y ago
Can't agree with you more! Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Interviews are subjective, and what I've seen recently is the expectation is that you solve Leetcode questions within 10-15 mins with the optimum solution (yes, this was told to me my several recruiters). Sure, so basically you're asking me to memorize as many Leetcode optimum solutions as I can. No thanks, if you want to hire Leetcode monkeys go ahead and see how that works out. On top of this, when you add concious and unconcious bias what are your chances of being hired?
taeric 8y ago
I'd love to see numbers to show how many this is a good guideline for. That is, I think this somewhat describes me too. However, I don't know as that I can give the advice of "ignore practicing interviews."
- rconti 8y ago
  I didn't say NOT to do it, I just think people focus too much on it. And not even the practice interview itself. I think this mindset that everyone has to have an amazing GitHub and be a rockstar 10x engineer and do tons of practice interviews in itself keeps people from applying for newer and better positions, and improving themselves on the job. That is to say, it's a kind of meta imposter's syndrome. "I'm not even doing the right things to make myself good enough to put myself in a position to get a better job!" Which keeps people from even trying.
  - taeric 8y ago
    So, to those points, I'm pretty sure I agree with you. Curious if this is some sort of survivor bias, though. In particular, how normal are we? If we are the outliers through luck or some other factor, I'd kind of like to know.
JustSomeNobody 8y ago
> Work on your network. That's not easy. I work remote, and live in a place where there just isn't a network available. That would leave online and I usually just hang out on HN.
- mr_custard 8y ago
  Same here. I've found nearly all of my jobs through my network, but now that I work remotely from a place where it's hard to have a network... I really don't know how I'm going to address the issue in future. Thoughts welcome!
  - langitbiru 8y ago
    What about mingling in technical mailing list, such as Python development mailing list, or Solidity gitter chat room, or other tech Slack group?

by rconti 8y ago

ashwinaj 8y ago

Can't agree with you more! Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Interviews are subjective, and what I've seen recently is the expectation is that you solve Leetcode questions within 10-15 mins with the optimum solution (yes, this was told to me my several recruiters). Sure, so basically you're asking me to memorize as many Leetcode optimum solutions as I can. No thanks, if you want to hire Leetcode monkeys go ahead and see how that works out. On top of this, when you add concious and unconcious bias what are your chances of being hired?

taeric 8y ago

I'd love to see numbers to show how many this is a good guideline for. That is, I think this somewhat describes me too. However, I don't know as that I can give the advice of "ignore practicing interviews."

rconti 8y ago
I didn't say NOT to do it, I just think people focus too much on it. And not even the practice interview itself. I think this mindset that everyone has to have an amazing GitHub and be a rockstar 10x engineer and do tons of practice interviews in itself keeps people from applying for newer and better positions, and improving themselves on the job. That is to say, it's a kind of meta imposter's syndrome. "I'm not even doing the right things to make myself good enough to put myself in a position to get a better job!" Which keeps people from even trying.
- taeric 8y ago
  So, to those points, I'm pretty sure I agree with you. Curious if this is some sort of survivor bias, though. In particular, how normal are we? If we are the outliers through luck or some other factor, I'd kind of like to know.

JustSomeNobody 8y ago

> Work on your network. That's not easy. I work remote, and live in a place where there just isn't a network available. That would leave online and I usually just hang out on HN.

mr_custard 8y ago
Same here. I've found nearly all of my jobs through my network, but now that I work remotely from a place where it's hard to have a network... I really don't know how I'm going to address the issue in future. Thoughts welcome!
- langitbiru 8y ago
  What about mingling in technical mailing list, such as Python development mailing list, or Solidity gitter chat room, or other tech Slack group?