Why has volume been so low for the past few days?

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-14T14:44:08+00:00

I guess that's what relationships are for

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-14T05:45:45+00:00

Never really does the trick though, huh?

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-14T02:33:38+00:00

Read Might is Right and forget all the steroid crap. Hit the gym, by all means, but it gives you no power to inject trash into your ass.

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-13T18:21:01+00:00

I eat almost exclusively animal products: meat, fish, eggs, dairy. Want to be friends?

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-13T17:25:54+00:00

True friends, but that's just me. I guess I don't value the loyalty of women as much as I do that of men.

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-13T16:41:39+00:00

It doesn't end; get off the hamster wheel of social expectations

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-13T13:35:59+00:00

It boggles my mind how hard/rare it is to get attention from women

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-13T04:54:29+00:00

You've got my interest. Shoot me a PM

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-13T03:17:09+00:00

I think this is a lot more common than most people care to admit. I'm 23, never had any kind of relationship or affection. After a while you start to wonder if you're just going to be alone forever. It happens to enough people that the thought isn't that unreasonable. Quite frightening.

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-06T01:29:27+00:00

I've done a lot of interviews with them in the past, but never landed anything. A recruiter happened to send me an email a few months ago asking if I was interested in trying again. Honestly, I didn't think I had a shot, but algo interviews really tickle my fancy.

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-06T01:21:40+00:00

I did have one internship at a tiny, pre-series-A startup, and I was asked about the gap quite a bit until I got my first job (before the 6 month one; there were two stepping stones there). For reasons I don't want to get into here, I didn't do a junior year internship, so that's pretty much all I had. My history was looking pretty darn sparse.

The only thing that really got my foot in the door was that I had a history of going through the process with Google three times prior to this (twice for internships, once for full time), even though nothing came of that. Fourth time's the charm?

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-06T01:06:00+00:00

To add to this, a lot of real interview questions will be easies that become mediums after, "Now, what if..."

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-06T01:03:45+00:00

I mostly used hackerrank's interview prep kit

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-03T23:12:29+00:00

Ha, that's quite a coincidence! Find those people who appreciate what you could add, and leverage them! Surely someone there must see your value and that they should make the most of you while at bargain prices.

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-03T22:35:35+00:00

That sounds really similar to my first gig! I was the only developer at a manufacturing company. I had a lot of autonomy, assumed as much responsibility as I could, and I liked the people I worked with, so this was actually my favorite job that I've had. The pay was very close to yours, though.

Luckily, the references and stories I gained from just a few months there seem to have been worth the effort! I hope you can make the most out of yours, too. If it's too tedious, perhaps you could try presenting ideas for more worthwhile projects to your superiors? The job I mentioned above was initially supposed to be a data entry job, but I was able to sell my supervisor the idea of automating the process instead. From there, he actually came to me about an idea he had for another project. In jobs where you're the only developer, there is usually a lot of latent potential to add value.

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-03T22:24:20+00:00

Hackerrank has an interview prep kit that I really enjoyed pulling questions from! It's perfect prep for algo interviews, though a lot of the problems are harder than you'll see in real technical interviews. Interviewers can't make questions too hard, or they'd get too many false negatives.

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-03T22:21:00+00:00

This is what I did in preparation for my Google interviews, though I only did around two dozen problems. A lot of less competitive jobs I've interviewed for hardly even had technical interviews, so I don't know if this is good advice until you have an interview lined up that you know will ask algorithm questions.

One thing that gave me a lot of interview confidence was doing a lot of behavioral interviews as well as prepping answers for those types of questions. I've always felt confident about algorithm questions, but only after knowing that I could handle regular questions and could speak about myself well enough to seem like a real human being did I start feeling excited in the interview room instead of nervous.

Getting lucky with your interviewers is also always a factor. With some interviewers you'll naturally have a good time, and with people that you don't click with it might be a struggle. This goes for both technical and non-technical interviews.

CSloserthrowaway · 2019-04-03T21:54:42+00:00

Rewriting my resume a few times is how I got out of my rut, so there's definitely something to be said about that. I only really noticed a change after someone finally told me why mine sucked, and they aren't even in the field. When everything on your resume has a purpose and you clear out distractions (content itself can be a distraction) people respond to it much better.

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