I like to believe that I’m a seasoned, experienced professional who does good work, yet there’s still a nagging doubt in the back of my mind telling me I’m somehow just good at spinning my past accomplishments and nothing I’ve ever done is good enough.
Author: Greg Bulmash
Job Hunt Diary – Week 4 – Day 4
ME: “Well, brain. It’s 11 p.m. Seems like a good time to go to sleep.”
MY BRAIN: “Seems like a good time to REHASH EVERYTHING YOU SAID IN YOUR INTERVIEWS TODAY!”
Comparing Two Arrays in Any Order (JavaScript)
How do you tell if two arrays are equal regardless of the order of their values? In doing some programming exercises in preparation for interviews, I ran across a task that required…
Job Hunt Diary – Week 4 – Day 3
Wow… We’re now at 5 full interviews in process or pending. I’ll finish up with two start-ups this week, start discussions with one or two start-ups this week, and start the loops with three very large corporations (VLCs) Friday.
Interview Questions – Algorithms – Pairwise
This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. Given an array of elements and a number as…
Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 3 – Day 5
10:00 PM Got an early start today. I needed to code for an interview at 9:30 and use their SDK, so I made sure I had their SDK up and running with…
Interview Questions – Create a Linked List Class
This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. This is a data structures problem. The question starta…
Notes from the Job Hunt – Late Night Edition
…the pronoun in every other sentence is “we” and it is signed with a team name. So where did “I’d” suddenly come from… Is the team itself actually 5 robot lions and that sentence was composed while they were combined as Voltron?
Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 3 – Day 4
9:00 p.m. Sorry there was no entry yesterday. Things are getting busy. Got that overlap rescheduled yesterday… for today. And I had to get a presentation ready to go because today’s screening…
Interview Questions: Even Fibonacci Numbers
This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. This is an algorithmic problem from the Project Euler…
Interview Questions: The 24 Game – Rosetta Code
The game is to take a string of 4 digits and determine how to make them total up to 24 using plus, minus, times, divide, and parentheses. People play this game sort of like Sudoku as a mental exercise.
Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 3 – Day 2
Noon Interesting 27 hours Got an email from the recruiter scheduling interviews for a role that really interested me. I sent back my availability. Unfortunately, this recruiter and the HM are in…
The Coding Interview: No Repeats Please
This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. This is an algorithm problem. It came in handy…
The Coding Interview: Rosetta Code – 100 Doors
In this exercise, we receive an arbitrary # of doors (100 in the title, but not always). We manipulate those doors over and over, then return a result based on the final state after the manipulations.
Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 3 – Day 1
So what is my ideal product fit? I’m glad you asked because this is something I’ll need to talk about in interviews.