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Biggest thing you can do is form a thick skin to perceived failure. Best way I've found to do that is to hold very closely the tangible evidence that you are go
by lostcolony 6y ago
Biggest thing you can do is form a thick skin to perceived failure. Best way I've found to do that is to hold very closely the tangible evidence that you are good at getting things done. Then interview a lot until you find something.
See, there's a couple of things to remember. First, the biggest way to sell yourself in an interview is to demonstrate confidence. Not bluster, but gentle self-assured comfort in the face of being interviewed. The ability to answer questions you do know, and to say "I don't know. But I think I'd...." or similar in the face of things you don't. Even if that's to say "I'd have to Google that".
Second, the actual interview...yeah, you might get turned down at a FAANG. But I've had plenty of interviews that were far less algorithmic. Far more concerned with whether i could speak intelligently about things I'd done previously. Even coding; I've had the algorithmic questions...I've also had really simple toy functions that were there just to make sure I could write some code, and formed all of 10-20 minutes of the hour long interview.
The way to get better for both of those is practice. Literal sitting in an interview practice. The more you interview the less you care about any given one, and the more likely you'll stay calm and collected. That exudes confidence, makes you more likeable, and lets you put your best foot forward when it comes to any coding problems.
- grep_name 6y ago> interview a lot until you find something. How do you find the time to 'interview a lot' though? I get about 10 days off in a year, and rarely get interviews with enough frequency to schedule two on one day. In an ideal world, I'd let my current employer know I'm planning to leave, take that as an opportunity to let them wind down my responsibilities and prepare for a handover, and have a good reference for a full-time job search after leaving, but I'll never be able to do that due to employer-tied insurance
- lostcolony 6y agoIf your current job doesn't give you flexible hours I agree that it's hard. That said, COVID has definitely made more things implicitly flexible. While some companies are still trying to plan for blocks of time (the FAANGs for instance), many others allow for it to be spread out as time is available, interview with one person one day, a different person another.