{"id":17073,"date":"2024-09-24T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=17073"},"modified":"2024-09-24T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T22:01:29","slug":"tips-for-developer-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=17073","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Getting Tech\/Developer jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I filtered them from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dataengineer.io\/p\/my-learnings-from-7-failed-tech-interviews?utm_source=tldrwebdev\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blog.dataengineer.io\/p\/my-learnings-from-7-failed-tech-interviews?utm_source=tldrwebdev\">someone else's experience<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Referrals aren\u2019t everything. You actually have to be good too<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Projects and experience matter just as much as interview performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rejection is just redirection. I ended up landing a great data science internship role instead here which was a much better fit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don\u2019t pick Java for the coding round. It slows you down dramatically. Always pick Python!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Actual practice some competitive programming before interviewing at FAANG. Use resources like NeetCode.io to truly gain a competitive edge in your big tech interviews<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>be less attached to interview outcomes. I was so attached to the outcome that I slept very poorly the night before the interview and that wrecked my interview performance. This lesson was very good when I interviewed at Facebook later in the year where I did get accepted. After my second rejection from Google, I went 5 years in a row without experiencing a single job interview rejection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maybe mobile development wasn\u2019t my thing and I should pivot more towards data engineering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The grass isn\u2019t always greener. Just because Airbnb stock dropped so much in 2021, that didn\u2019t necessarily mean I was in a bad position<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometimes the interviewer fails you for reasons beyond your control and you need to take that signal and be grateful that you didn\u2019t get hired at that company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Job hopping is really good to grow your career early. It looks worse as you go from early career to mid career though!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not all companies value impact over tenure. Some companies prefer people to make less impact over a longer, more sustainable period of time. This was something that really nudged me in the direction of startups and initially put the idea of DataExpert.io into my mind!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The entrepreneurship journey I am on is different but still really good. Not giving one organization so much power over my life is a good thing even if it comes with a different set of challenges.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interviewing out of FOMO can be a bad idea especially if your values do not actually align with the company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don\u2019t let interview rustiness impact the interviews at the jobs you want most. I should have interviewed with some other companies before OpenAI to refine my pitch instead of going in cold after years of not interviewing at all.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don\u2019t post April Fool\u2019s jokes about joining a company that you\u2019re currently in the interview process with; it might go extremely viral and hurt your chances!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I filtered them from someone else's experience:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17077,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073\/revisions\/17077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}