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Humblebrag much? I spent the first 7 years of my career in the public sector. Talk about a career killer. If you are concerned about getting a job elsewhere,

Humblebrag much? I spent the first 7 years of my career in the public sector. Talk about a career killer. If you are concerned about getting a job elsewhere, just study and do online coding exercises like crazy. That should land you a job at most companies with whiteboard interview at your seniority level. If you are concerned about actual learning, most of my professional growth has been on the job. I spent a long while doing 'proactive learning' where I would study new techs and frameworks. It turns out that all of them, either I never had to use, or when I had to, I needed a refresher, since I forgot most about it. Lately I have been doing more 'reactive learning', where I learn new things as I need them, or studying general topics that can be broadly applied. Long story short, look for positions that will stretch your abilities, you'll be fine.

StandardFuture 7y ago
> just study and do online coding exercises like crazy Is this really the new go-to for the software industry? Which "online exercises" and "study" tools do you recommend the most? I would love to visualize what this new canonical basis looks like. Since it will apparently define the software of the 2020s.
- austenallred 7y ago
  Not new, unfortunately
- shantly 7y ago
  The FAANG and similar interviews are designed—one hopes, anyway, because if they're trying to do something else they've screwed up—to select for some combination of decent-or-better IQ and having put in enough work to prep for their tests using, yes, online exercises and some books, with the set of things one needs to study being fairly large but also very well-known. There are lists all over the place, including one sort-of famous guide someone put on Github, outlining what you need to study, and where to study it. Basically they want you to be at least semi-smart in a raw general intelligence sense, and to really want the job and have put in the work to get it. Whatever their reasons for this, it will almost certainly have the effect of making a successful candidate value the offer more and think more highly of their co-workers, for the same reason that e.g. initiation (hazing) rituals or costs tend to improve group cohesion. Perhaps this is why they do it.
- Infinitesimus 7y ago
  You can clear those interviews by focusing heavily on leetcode.com, hackerrank.com questions.
- jodrellblank 7y ago
  You want to see it? Spend some days watching https://reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/new https://reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/new until you've seen enough to recognise the common patterns, recommendations, requests, and reasons.
akhilcacharya 7y ago
It's not a humblebrag, it's an actual brag. If OP was actually concerned about their situation they wouldn't have included "Google" in the title. People like OP make me sick.
- mychael 7y ago
  Very good point.

StandardFuture 7y ago

> just study and do online coding exercises like crazy Is this really the new go-to for the software industry? Which "online exercises" and "study" tools do you recommend the most? I would love to visualize what this new canonical basis looks like. Since it will apparently define the software of the 2020s.

austenallred 7y ago
Not new, unfortunately
shantly 7y ago
The FAANG and similar interviews are designed—one hopes, anyway, because if they're trying to do something else they've screwed up—to select for some combination of decent-or-better IQ and having put in enough work to prep for their tests using, yes, online exercises and some books, with the set of things one needs to study being fairly large but also very well-known. There are lists all over the place, including one sort-of famous guide someone put on Github, outlining what you need to study, and where to study it. Basically they want you to be at least semi-smart in a raw general intelligence sense, and to really want the job and have put in the work to get it. Whatever their reasons for this, it will almost certainly have the effect of making a successful candidate value the offer more and think more highly of their co-workers, for the same reason that e.g. initiation (hazing) rituals or costs tend to improve group cohesion. Perhaps this is why they do it.
Infinitesimus 7y ago
You can clear those interviews by focusing heavily on leetcode.com, hackerrank.com questions.
jodrellblank 7y ago
You want to see it? Spend some days watching https://reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/new https://reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/new until you've seen enough to recognise the common patterns, recommendations, requests, and reasons.

akhilcacharya 7y ago

It's not a humblebrag, it's an actual brag. If OP was actually concerned about their situation they wouldn't have included "Google" in the title. People like OP make me sick.

mychael 7y ago
Very good point.