Write some self sufficient applications. It can be as simple as an app that shows you movie times in your local area in a nice way, scraped from movies.google.

Write some self sufficient applications. It can be as simple as an app that shows you movie times in your local area in a nice way, scraped from movies.google.com by some quick web-service you written. Try writing the app in some in demand underserved platform. Teach yourself a couple of algorithms courses and some basic multi-threading problems like producer-consumer and so on so you can get through the interview gauntlet. All of my interview questions can be derived from 5 courses: Algorithms & Data Structures, Discrete Math, Operating Systems, Compilers and AI/Machine Learning (optional). Go interview, be willing to move. If you feel like you've already done the equivalent, then your prepared.