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by amazonavocado 8y ago
interviewing.io has been in private beta for months and I am still on the waiting list since March.
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
Then my goal, ostensibly, is to find a large company with interviewer(s) that are like and sound like me. Instead of trying to blend in, I will try the other approach. Try to find my "soul company" within the major big companies,
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
I'd like to be a fly on the wall on some "sample" in-person interviews to see what I have to do and how to do it.
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
>A master's degree will not materially improve your employment prospects but will cost a lot of money and years of opportunity cost. I don't like "don't do it" advice without any compelling reasons. It is better
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
Yeah, I don't consciously answer everything as how they want to hear. Nor do I want to. When I have a job interview, I just go to the interview. I've never done more than look up what the company does, and perhaps a quick refresh
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
But bigger companies they are more willing to hire based on learning potential, correct? They can deal with the longer run of investing in an employee. Quick learners can cross the Y-intercept of knowledge of those that know more but learn
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
Amazingly, the only company in the tech hubs that has given me any algorithmic questions is Amazon. But I am not deluded enough to say I am 100% doing well on the technical side. All the other companies with some reasonable amount of public
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
>startups try to be selective; but they're really desperate to hire That is a paradox I am still trying to figure out LOL. Ostensibly, startups are huge on culture fit. But also at the same time they want someone who knows a certain
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
Out of the comments here so far, I really resonate with this the most. In particular the paragraphs where you talk about how larger companies want you to be a specific fit for a role. I've noticed that a lot of times my enthusiasm for
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
Yeah, I truly agree with this. Couple the fact that I have a non-STEM degree and no internships. I picked up my first web dev jobs just from scouring Craigslist. Smaller companies that were open-minded enough to give a junior dev a shot. Bu
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
Yes. Most companies don't want to provide feedback due to liability reasons. Only big exceptions are TripleByte and Enova. They told me that I come across as too "junior" in giving explanations despite my years of experience.
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by amazonavocado 8y ago
The feeling I get is that if my resume is good enough to get into the interviews, then it must be something about my presentation that has been conditioned from me due to working in smaller places. Like it could be something about the small
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Ask HN: Is it possible to get pigeonholed to certain company sizes/cultures?
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Ask HN: Cold approach your way through a career (and still hitting major goals)?
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Ask HN: Have you encountered non-interview alternatives to tech job hiring?
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Ask HN: How to maximize utility with my tech skills while I'm unemployed?
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Ask HN: How would you educate students on professional networking?
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by amazonavocado 9y ago
Admittedly that may be one of my big failings since graduation- I continued to treat subsequent jobs as simply "jobs" and not a career. When I got out of college I had a very incomplete view of what getting a career afterwards ent
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Ask HN: Roadmap returning to college with small network, no job, little income?
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Ask HN: Having $2K and no job, how would you drastically improve your life?
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Ask HN: How does the “ten years a junior” find better work?
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