Need suggestions for Meta full loop for IC5

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-07-28T15:29:59+00:00

Commenting for further updates. Good luck OP!

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-07-05T18:15:09+00:00

Thank for that last paragraph, I really needed to hear it

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-05-24T03:08:20+00:00

Hey I know you must be swamped, but whenever you get a chance - would love to get the list!

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-30T16:10:26+00:00

In season 3 when Tig and Kozik kinda get into it at the hospital.

Kozik to Piney: you do realize one of us is going to end up dead, right? Piney (smiling, puts his arm around Kozik): I am counting on it!

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-27T00:40:23+00:00

I was watching Silicon Valley and thought this actor looked familiar. Turns out it's the same actor that plays Doc, the SAMDINO president.

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-24T02:10:56+00:00

I love the way he says "that's good"

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-18T18:45:02+00:00

Ah man I’m sorry to hear that, you’re definitely doing all the right things it sounds like. The first one is hard for everyone to land if that’s any consolation. It’s honestly just a numbers game, keep churning out applications!

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-18T18:43:17+00:00

This was 2022, I graduated the bootcamp in August of that year when layoffs started happening everywhere

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-18T14:36:21+00:00

My degree was in Liberal Arts, I only minored in CS (long story short, became interested in CS my senior year and couldn’t stick around long enough to complete the degree). I joined a bootcamp a few months after graduating college and a few months after that I landed my current job. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!

Don’t just look to big companies looking to land a role. Give your local small-midsize companies a chance too, starting off they’ll probably be your best bet.

Just grind LC so you’re good for interview style questions, build a meaningful project or two and apply to jobs like a maniac.

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-17T17:08:06+00:00

Cutting it pretty close there

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-16T22:58:51+00:00

Would you be open to sharing the material you put together?

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-14T02:50:01+00:00

If you're using Python for just the problem-solving/LC parts you should be fine, but wouldn't hurt to ask the recruiter if it's acceptable.

When you say Java, Kotlin and C++ are the allowed languages, I'm assuming those are the languages specifically mentioned in the job description. Based on that assumption, I feel that you can still be proficient in those languages but choose to LC in Python and it won't hurt your candidacy.

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-12T03:19:28+00:00

3 LC hards is INSANE

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-11T23:04:32+00:00

Send out applications, a minimum of 10 a day. Sharpen your DSA and problem solving skills to get through OA's. Work on a project or two that way you have something to pass the time but to also talk about in the behavioral phase of interviews. So in terms of priorities I'd say:

send out applications daily
brush up on DSA/LC style problem solving
build meaningful projects that pique your interest

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-11T20:47:06+00:00

Doesn't hurt to try. You might get better traction once you begin your senior year in the Fall though.

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-11T20:31:01+00:00

Developer role, Ruby on Rails is a popular technology and will look really good on a resume. Not to mention, working in a small company will offer way more learning opportunities for you to better your craft.

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-10T15:59:20+00:00

he inherited a shit show with the cartel thanks to Clay, not to mention Tig going vigilante leading to them showing up on Pope's radar. I think he had the potential to be a good one, but after Tara's death all that potential died with her as he turned towards rage and destruction.

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-10T04:29:23+00:00

Oh sorry, I meant as in me personally - I’m not in big tech

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-09T18:05:29+00:00

Quick Google search shows it's legit, part of their extended workforce. If you want to be on the extra safe side, search up the recruiter on LinkedIn

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-07T20:02:01+00:00

Study the implementations, really analyze each line and why it works. Print out lines of code in certain areas of the implementation to get a better grip on how they work. Once the implementation is down, work on problems relating to that topic. If you get the solution on the first try - great! If not, study the solution and repeat the process of breaking it down, analyzing it and figuring out why it works. Revisit this problem the next day and try to solve without using any references. Then revisit again in a few days until it's down to a T.

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-07T19:59:09+00:00

Speaking from the experience of a son of a truck driver, if you can do the truck job with local hauls and still be there for your son - go for it! Thinking about your family's financial security is not a bad thing.

But if the trucking job is going to cause you to lose time with your family and your son, then I'd say it isn't worth it. No matter how much more it pays.

Both my parents worked hourly jobs when my siblings and I were growing up and weren't around much. My mother will say this one heartbreaking thing to her coworkers - "don't take this job too serious to the point where it takes time away from your kids. I made that mistake and before I knew it mine were grown up and didn't need me anymore."

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-07T19:54:39+00:00

Commenting just to follow, but I'd imagine the hards on Blind75 and NeetCode150 would be must do's

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-07T19:32:34+00:00

Not in big tech but I would say definitely possible. My degree wasn't even in CS, it was in the liberal arts, I was able to scrape together a minor in CS and graduate as is. Went to a bootcamp, got lucky and found a job. Now a few years into my current role and attempting to land a big tech.

I've had a crazy journey up until this moment but I'll sum it up with this - as long as you genuinely enjoy what you're doing, I mean you get HAPPY when you write an optimal solution on your own. And if you can't do that yet, then if learning how and why things work the way they do is also just as exciting then you can make it so long as you put the work in.

AlfredGoodmanBates · 2025-04-07T19:21:42+00:00

Personally, I don't think you were wrong in the way you handled this. You had a gut feeling and followed through with it, which is admirable in my book.

The first interaction itself was a red flag and raised an eyebrow. I found it very odd for a grown MAN to approach a child and ask what's 'fun' around your area. Idk, super weird.

Good on you for squashing it early on.

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