The first time I looked for a job, it took about 11 months. 11 months of learning about companies that I'm not interested in just so that I can pretend to be ex

The first time I looked for a job, it took about 11 months. 11 months of learning about companies that I'm not interested in just so that I can pretend to be excited to join them, pretending to be interested in the field they're in, of practicing leet code questions, of being asked to redo my resume in a specific way, of being asked to build web apps and do code challenges before being able to have a discussion with someone in their IT team, of showing up at interviews where a recruiter oversold my profile, and so on...