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!”
Category: Tech Career
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…
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.
Job Hunt Diary – Week 2 – Day 5
Not only do I not have Boomi anywhere on my resume, I always thought Boomi was Avatar Ang’s childhood friend, leader of the Earth Kingdom, and super-ripped old guy, not a tech stack.
The Coding Interview: Create A Circular Queue
This is a data structure problem. A circular queue allows you to specify a size for easier memory management. It’s initialized with a set number of slots. Each write operation fills a slot, each read operation empties a slot.
Notes from the Job Hunt – Week 2 – Day 4
2 p.m. Today is a day without calls, which is fine. I have three scheduled for next week and a couple where I need to provide some times to people. I’m still…
The Coding Interview: Implement a Bubble Sort
This series answers coding interview questions from the Coding Interview Prep collection at freeCodeCamp. You can find more with the interview questions tag. I’ve had 8 different blogs since 1995, two of…