troutskey

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by troutskey 4y ago
I have no qualms about getting asked about the gap or short duration of my employment because I am sure most will on some level be able to empathize with my situation. It's the idea of automated filtering machines or some person who ha
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by troutskey 4y ago
Regarding LeetCode: I made it seem like I am bad the problems themselves, which is not the case at all. I can solve most of those problems in a whiteboard interview because I can always talk to the interviewer. It's when I'm given
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by troutskey 4y ago
It's not the LeetCode problems themselves but the time element that makes me freeze up. Not to toot my own horn but I'm quite good at solving LeetCode-type problems, if only there wasn't a blinking time indicator counting dow
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by troutskey 4y ago
I can understand your point-of-view but honestly, working in the tech industry is all I've ever wanted to do. My poor health resulted mainly from my last job where I worked 17 hour days for around 10 months before my body and mind just
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by troutskey 4y ago
The thing that worries me about the gap and short bursts of employment is me getting filtered out before I even get to speak to a human being. But I don't think there's any way of getting around that short of lying, which is somet
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by troutskey 4y ago
I don't use any networking sites such as LinkedIn etc. but I've kept in touch with a couple of people from each of the places where I've worked. The biggest challenge with getting them to recommend me is that most of them hav
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by troutskey 4y ago
Oh I wish I had the confidence to say something like that!
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by troutskey 4y ago
The burn-out happened to a major degree at my last place of employment. I was an early employee at an electronics startup and I was working around 17 hours a day migrating an early version of the web application from PHP into Node, programm
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by troutskey 4y ago
Recurse Center seems interesting. If my job applications don't work out, I'll definitely consider applying. Thanks!
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by troutskey 4y ago
Barring some serious illness, neither I nor the doctors I've been consulting see any future events of such sort. The only thing I've worked on these last 4 years is getting to a point of career-sustainability. All I can do is tell
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by troutskey 4y ago
I'm not by any means bad at ds/algo. Back in university I worked on pretty much all the CLRS problems. It's just that I freeze up in time-bound situations and outside of actual interview situations I don't know how to ge
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by troutskey 4y ago
It's funny you mention Haskell because it happens to be one of two languages (the other being Python) that I have any significant industry experience in! The short stints were the result of an unfortunate combination of poor judgement
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by troutskey 4y ago
Getting the applications started and see what happens seems like the best thing to do. It's just that when every now and again I used to open up HN, I would see these clumps of articles filled with Dall-E, ChatGPT etc. and these intere
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Ask HN: How do I get back into the tech industry after 4 years of unemployment?
85 points by troutskey 4y ago|122 comments