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> If you can get an interview with a company that relies heavily on coding tests you might stand a chance. Fair point. I think if I grind leetcode full-time fo
by mettamage 2y ago
> If you can get an interview with a company that relies heavily on coding tests you might stand a chance.
Fair point. I think if I grind leetcode full-time for 3 months, I'll be there. I have around 250 questions under my belt (50 hard), and I feel definitely familiar nowadays. I'm mostly in the refining part, sometimes still in the "I don't see the trick" part.
- scarface_74 2y agoSo the question becomes how do you get to the interview and stand out among the hundreds of people applying for the same position? I don’t have a good answer for that as a software developer. I looked for bog standard remote development jobs as a Plan B with 20+ years of development and deep AWS experience last year and the year before and it is a shit show out there now. Luckily, I have deep experience in my niche - strategic cloud consulting + app dev and a stint working at a BigTech company in the consulting department that opened a lot of doors. I think the play may be to stay in analytics and get into a well known company. Also, make sure you are taking on assignments with bigger “scope” and higher “impact”. Don’t be a ticket taker.
- mettamage 2y ago> I think the play may be to stay in analytics and get into a well known company. > Also, make sure you are taking on assignments with bigger “scope” and higher “impact”. Don’t be a ticket taker. Solid advice, thank you :) I was a ticket taker. The irony is that I'm not even a week in on my first job and this manager is definitely not making me be a ticket taker. I already completed some scraping projects. Not sure where that falls as being a "data analyst" but yea the data analysts are quite technical anyway (i.e. no one uses Excel, it's all SQL and Python).