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You can take vacation or save some money before quitting. Or just do a few interviews per week while working like most people.

listenallyall 4y ago
sorry kids, no Disneyland this year, I used up my vacation days back in Feb when I interviewed for a week straight
- dan-robertson 4y ago
  “Thanks for accepting our offer. When would you like to start?” “Well my notice expires at my current job in two weeks but I’d like to take a short break in between to decompress / spend time with my family.” “Obviously we’d like to have you as soon as possible but we don’t want to keep you from your family. How about six weeks from now?” “Works for me.” Obviously different companies/roles will be differently flexible and bigger companies will be more tolerant of delaying start by longer. And you can only do that if you get a job offer somewhere. But the parent comment wasn’t even suggesting taking holiday to interview for a week straight right?
- osigurdson 4y ago
  >> sorry kids, no Disneyland this year, I used up my vacation days back in Feb when I interviewed for a week straight As a kid, I went to Disneyland exactly zero times. There are hasher realities for many.
- scarface74 4y ago
  Given the choice of being able to take little Timmy to Disney world and providing him food and shelter and being able to cash flow him through college, he will get over it. Before you respond that I don’t know what it’s like juggling a family and I must be a fresh college grad, the 74 in my username has significance
  - Haegin 4y ago
    Woah! 74 kids. That's crazy!
  - lance_klusener 4y ago
    As someone that comes from humble backgrounds from a third world country, i went on 0 vacations. All the money was put in for education, food , clothing and shelter.
- Asooka 4y ago
  Okay but what did you spend your other 5 weeks of vacation on?
angarg12 4y ago
Quitting your job to focus full time on prepping for the tech interview had a good ROI during the fever dream market of 2021 and 2022. I'm not so sure that's true anymore. At the very least it has an inherent risk (dwindling savings and not getting a good offer). Right now I'm more risk averse so I'd follow the tortoise approach by interviewing little by little overtime. A pity since the TC game is played by pitting companies against each other in a bidding war. I guess I'll have to figure out my strategy when the time comes.

listenallyall 4y ago

sorry kids, no Disneyland this year, I used up my vacation days back in Feb when I interviewed for a week straight

dan-robertson 4y ago
“Thanks for accepting our offer. When would you like to start?” “Well my notice expires at my current job in two weeks but I’d like to take a short break in between to decompress / spend time with my family.” “Obviously we’d like to have you as soon as possible but we don’t want to keep you from your family. How about six weeks from now?” “Works for me.” Obviously different companies/roles will be differently flexible and bigger companies will be more tolerant of delaying start by longer. And you can only do that if you get a job offer somewhere. But the parent comment wasn’t even suggesting taking holiday to interview for a week straight right?
osigurdson 4y ago
>> sorry kids, no Disneyland this year, I used up my vacation days back in Feb when I interviewed for a week straight As a kid, I went to Disneyland exactly zero times. There are hasher realities for many.
scarface74 4y ago
Given the choice of being able to take little Timmy to Disney world and providing him food and shelter and being able to cash flow him through college, he will get over it. Before you respond that I don’t know what it’s like juggling a family and I must be a fresh college grad, the 74 in my username has significance
- Haegin 4y ago
  Woah! 74 kids. That's crazy!
- lance_klusener 4y ago
  As someone that comes from humble backgrounds from a third world country, i went on 0 vacations. All the money was put in for education, food , clothing and shelter.
Asooka 4y ago
Okay but what did you spend your other 5 weeks of vacation on?

angarg12 4y ago

Quitting your job to focus full time on prepping for the tech interview had a good ROI during the fever dream market of 2021 and 2022. I'm not so sure that's true anymore. At the very least it has an inherent risk (dwindling savings and not getting a good offer). Right now I'm more risk averse so I'd follow the tortoise approach by interviewing little by little overtime. A pity since the TC game is played by pitting companies against each other in a bidding war. I guess I'll have to figure out my strategy when the time comes.