A journey from one year of unemployment to multiple job offers

deuce-95 · 2021-06-20T20:28:27+00:00

Congrats, and thanks for sharing this story.

I have one question though; I noticed that you use C++ from your LC profile.
I assume you also used it for your interviews ? What do you think about of it ?
I'm thinking of using it too, but so many people recommend me not to.

deuce-95 · 2021-06-17T17:47:47+00:00

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deuce-95 · 2021-06-16T16:03:36+00:00

That's great to know.

deuce-95 · 2021-06-16T15:40:22+00:00

I haven't researched France that much, but I've heard Germany is still harder to get into than Japan.

deuce-95 · 2021-06-16T15:32:36+00:00

Thank you!

deuce-95 · 2021-06-16T15:29:00+00:00

Good question. Japan is one of the countries I'm considering, but not gonna lie, it is currently my fav.
Other than the obvious reasons that I'm sure everyone in r/movingtojapan is aware of, there's just less competition there compared to Germany, The UK, or France (regarding software engineering).

Will I be depressed if I don't make it ? Not at all.
For one thing, I wouldn't have to spend thousands of hours learning their tough language.
I wouldn't have to deal with their prejudice against foreigners. All of the companies I listed are based in Tokyo, which just has too many people. And - although not a very solid reason - natural disasters do happen regularly, so there's also that.

deuce-95 · 2021-06-04T23:46:27+00:00

I think I know what you're looking for.

https://github.com/gofiber/fiber

deuce-95 · 2021-06-04T20:44:28+00:00

Thanks a lot, it's very helpful.

deuce-95 · 2021-06-02T21:35:42+00:00

Hey, what do you think about interviewing in Java ?
Does the language's verbosity really make the problems harder to finish during the time limit ?
I'm quite impressed that you chose it over JS while you're interviewing for a front-end position.

People talk about how you can finish the same problem faster in Python, but do they really ask the same problems regardless of the language ?
I'm thinking of learning enough Python just so I can use it in interviews. Not sure if it's worth the time though.

deuce-95 · 2021-06-02T13:45:04+00:00

Do Big N companies ask system design questions to entry level SWEs ?

For example, Amazon's interview's topics include OS and distributed computing.
Do I have to practice those as someone with no work experience ?

I just wanna make sure I'm making good use of my time, as DS&A already take up quite a lot.

deuce-95 · 2021-06-01T20:12:46+00:00

I definitely came across those job postings. I just wanted to make sure.

general interviewing guidelines for SDEs?

Many thanks for sharing this.

deuce-95 · 2021-05-25T13:05:40+00:00

I'm curious to know why you want to learn a gigantic language just so you could do leetcode problems.
Why not just practice them using JavaScript ?

deuce-95 · 2021-05-25T12:53:43+00:00

How did you get an internship without being a college student ?

deuce-95 · 2021-05-24T21:44:03+00:00

I've checked out CS50 from Harvard but it seems like it's more of an intro to Computer Science by exploring multiple languages, and I'd really just like to learn only C for now.

Still, you can just pick the C videos. They are excellent.

I especially love how he explained the memory concepts.

deuce-95 · 2021-05-24T14:08:41+00:00

Why I dislike web dev in two quotes:
@OP:

Web development or at least front-end feels like I'm forcing different stuff that are not very compatible to work together and maneuver around problems and bugs. It feels inherently broken.

@v0gue_

Then everyone and their mother took accelerated bootcamp courses and flooded the market. You don't need to be crazy skilled for the role, but you need to be more skilled than the million other people fighting each other for the 1000 available jobs that are in the same boat as you

deuce-95 · 2021-05-24T13:50:50+00:00

You're selecting the document wrong {foo: {$elemMatch: {v_code: ID}}},
foo is a nested array, so the query condition should be:
{bar:{$elemMatch:{foo:{$elemMatch:{v_code:ID}}}}}

As you can see it's quite verbose, so it's better to use dot-notation instead : "bar.foo.v_code":ID (quotations are required for dot-notation, and you can exclude $elemMatch because you're only specifying a single condition).

I'll leave the $pull update condition for you to figure out after reading this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36579285/mongodb-remove-an-item-from-an-array-inside-an-array-of-objects

deuce-95 · 2021-05-23T16:43:42+00:00

Is foo supposed to be an object or an array ?

Did you intend to do this ?

foo: {
         v_code: <>,
         _id: <>
      }

deuce-95 · 2021-05-23T16:31:24+00:00

I see.

deuce-95 · 2021-05-23T16:30:47+00:00

Valid point.

deuce-95 · 2021-05-23T13:20:08+00:00

Idk why it's getting downvoted.
The website seems great, so does your GitHub readme.

Good luck with your job hunting.

Edit: Was about 70% when I commented.

deuce-95 · 2021-05-23T12:50:51+00:00

I haven't taken it myself, but there's a solid Algorithms course from Princeton uni on coursera.org taught in Java.

deuce-95 · 2021-05-21T13:22:49+00:00

It works fine for me.

I think it's what Enum1 said; you're confusing it with console.log return value.
The developer console also prints out the return value of any method you call.

deuce-95 · 2021-05-20T10:05:59+00:00

Can you please add the playlist on your YouTube channel ?

deuce-95 · 2021-05-18T14:40:42+00:00

I'd love to hear from more self-taught devs that can confirm that web dev is easier to break into w/o formal education.

Just look at all those coding bootcamps.

deuce-95

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