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I just went through this so let me give you my thoughts/experience. Separate work and job-hunting as two different skill sets in your mind. Use any note-takin
by kentosi 8y ago
I just went through this so let me give you my thoughts/experience.
Separate work and job-hunting as two different skill sets in your mind.
Use any note-taking tool of your choice (I used EverNote) and write up:
- Standard algorithm questions and answers to quickly revise on
- Soft questions (like name a time you rose to the challenge/etc) with pre-prepared answers.
- ANY f*ckups from previous interviews and how to not do that again
- ALL tech questions you were asked + solutions to revise.
I hope you get the gist of what I'm saying here. Job-hunting is a "mode" you enter in. It's like preparing for an exam where you're learning a whole bunch of stuff before-hand, but knowing very well that once the exam is over you'll forget everything.
This has already happened to you with algorithms. Same thing goes with jobs. You'll enter into algo-solving and interviewing mode, but once you have an offer you'll have the luxury of forgetting it all once you start working.
It's when you're back on the path of finding a job again that these notes you've taken serve as an anchor for quickly getting back into that job-hunting mode.
It's served me for years.
All the best.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoFunny thing about the hiring sieve is just going through enough interviews prepares you at some point enough to pass somebody's hiring bar. So it's not that you were actually worthy of being hired, rather it's that you had studied for the test enough at that point. The whole thing is mildly comical.