biscottigelato

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by biscottigelato 8y ago
For FAANGS, I bet half my interviews didn't even go to my landing sites. And no way would any of them have downloaded the app to see the complexity and performance of the application. I'm purely evaluated on algorithms and data st
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Yeah, as I said, did a hundred things. I designed database schema without picking up a single book on database. First implementation was 100 DB accesses per Story fetch, and it blew the cap on my BaaS in days of development. LOL. Quickly fi
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I demo'ed my work up front. And then did their algorithm puzzles. I don't think I aced them all. I have an answer to them all and demonstrate that I can tackle these kinda problems. But it seems they want people that have studied
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Unfortunately more and more companies are going the 'we don't care about your resume, we just want you to do algorithm puzzles'. way. Triplebyte, as listed on the Hackernews job board, is especially proud that they don't
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Like a few hundred thousand lines of code copied from tutorials into a unique working product. Open sourced with a year worth of commit history. I'd hire that guy, but maybe that's why I'm looking for employment and not the e
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I built these 2 and they didn't quite work out business-wise... https://tastory.co https://swiftlightning.io 3 months in a job search to end this retirement funds burn... Still haven't gotten a single offer
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I have trouble leveraging my portfolio for much to be honest. And they are fully functioning published app. Graphic design, marketing material, front-end back-end all that jazz... Studying 'Cracking the Coding Interview' like ever
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Any tips for companies to take your open sourced work as experience? I've mostly just been thrown the book at doing algorithm puzzles and such... Got rejected for not 'technically competent' despite polished complex app on bo
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I shipped 2 projects that I feel are highly polished. Been almost 3 months in the job market cuz i have since ran low on funds. Being in Vancouver it's just extra tough. The Unicorns doesn't care one bit of your side projects. The
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Side Projects are deadweight to employability
62 points by biscottigelato 8y ago|81 comments
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
How is this different from other chat apps?