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1. Hit leetcode hard 2. Increase your applications. You should be applying all day, at least get hundreds of apps. 3. Improve your resume, have a friend look
by yellow_lead 7y ago
1. Hit leetcode hard
2. Increase your applications. You should be applying all day, at least get hundreds of apps.
3. Improve your resume, have a friend look at it. Consider leaving off your 8mos stint. May be making you look like a poor performer. Instead you could describe the time since then as spent on your side projects.
4. Reach out to your personal connections about potential roles. These are most valuable especially since you had some bad luck that doesn't make your resume look so great. If you don't have good connections, you should look to improve that at your next job, but try tech meetups in your area. Read one of those networking for programmers books.
Lastly, be confident. You may not have a ton of experience in one technology, but I'm sure you're a fast learner. Experience as a junior is a bit overrated. Stop going into interviews with the hope they'll give something to you, and start going in with the question of what they can provide for you.
- batt4good 7y agoI'd leave the FAANG stint out, but I was working full time during those months I was employed and didn't really have much time on the side to work on side-projects. Wouldn't it be worse to have a year long work gap without too much completed code on Github from that time to back it up? I've been waiting to get things going full-speed again in January since December is a bum hiring month.
- probinso 7y agogaps are only bad if you aren't doing anything. If you can confidently defend the gap, or show proof of work then that ends the questions real quick.
- yellow_lead 7y agoI'm not super knowledgeable on this, but like the other commenter said, if you can't define the gap it's not great. My only concern is people are looking at your resume and saying "this guy spent (about) less than a year at his first two jobs, there must be something wrong with him". Perhaps you could look to get in front of that subtlely in your cover letters though. Going heavy emphasis on the acquired bit could help. People will understand this happens with acquisitions through no fault of your own.