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Worth having a multi month break at some point in your career where you spend most your time practicing and taking technical interviews. It makes you a better p
by not_a_moth 6y ago
Worth having a multi month break at some point in your career where you spend most your time practicing and taking technical interviews. It makes you a better programmer and problem solver.
- brailsafe 6y agoDepending on your sense of worth, it would be a better idea to just take a few months off entirely, rather than just grinding to get back to it. One of the virtues in having been terminated a bunch of tomes is that I've had much more time off than anyone else I know, and while I have no idea what to do next, I know I'd be sad without that time off.
- ipnon 6y agoThere has to be something seriously wrong with the tech industry if engineers are rewarded for spending more than 1/6 of the year learning a skill that is generally regarded to be unrelated to actual job performance. It cannot be completely bad in itself, but there must be some better way of organizing engineering labor.
- not_a_moth 6y agoThought the same way until I spent 3 months on leetcode and absorbing algorithm lectures. My programming skills and problem solving skills simply got a lot better for the long term.