Hello from a hotel room in Santa Clara. I got up at 4 a.m. on Monday morning to fly down from Seattle and meet my new co-workers in person. In the past…
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Job Hunt Diary – Week 6 – Day 2
10 p.m. No news is no news While I did get contacts on LinkedIn from a couple of recruiters about new opportunities, nothing from the four companies still in the hunt on…
Job Hunt Diary – Week 6 – Day 1
1 p.m. Everything finished up on Thursday. Slept in on Friday and got a 91 sleep score on my FitBit. Always happy when I score an A in sleep. This morning, I…
Job Hunt Diary – Week 5 – Day 5
I finished up with two more companies, but one with which I had believed I was finished, emailed to ask for a presentation.
Job Hunt Diary – Week 5 – Day 4
11 a.m. Apologies again. While in the heat of interviewing and interview prep, daily blogging has not been as big a priority. Three down – two to go Quick recap: Two small…
Job Hunt Diary – Week 4 – Day 5
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.
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!”
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.