Another small win and a first world problem:

I got another onsite for another company, but now I need to figure out how to line these interviews up. I am doing one next week on Thursday, and trying to do the new onsite the coming Monday.

Is that too far apart? I was tempted to have it on Friday, but two days of interviews back to back seems super tiring. I also need to brush up a bit more on system design (I am not amazing at it coming from a mostly frontend background).

For my interview next week, I will be asked a frontend system design question... Why I've never done before.

I understand I'll need to know things like "What is the minimal viable product (MVP)" or "what API calls will need to be made", but besides that I am a little lost. I can imagine something about authentication / authorization, but there is so much they could ask and I know I don't have all the answers.

I've always been a person who hasn't had all the answers, but I know I can find them. I don't know if that'll fly during a 60 minute interview where I'll have to create some type of solution.

A small win:

I got my first onsite next week! A lot I need to brush up on between now and then, but I'm excited about the company and they seem to be excited about me.

If there's one thing that is universal truth, it's that Tailwind CSS is doodoo.

I've vented to a few friends about the bad interviews I've had. They've been bad mostly because I'm not amazing at Leetcode style questions and the pressure of an interview. I saw some of these friends last night and they all said the same thing:

"You have to have the 'f*** you, if you're going to ask me these type of questions I don't want to work for you anyways' mentality."

I haven't even thought of it that way, but I think that's because in the Bay Area that's just the name of the game. Every random company and their mom is asking you these brain twisters, and to cut out all companies that do it would mean cutting out like 95% of the market.

I have been pretty lucky that the last few companies I have worked at have been very chill / light on the Leetcode style questions, but I don't think I'll get that lucky again.

Anyways, I wish I could just not care about a bad interview and just do the whole "yeah f you guys" mentality, but that's just not who I am. I wish I could turn that on, but I know I do care about some of these companies and want it to work out.

I just had a really great conversation with a Co-CEO of a startup, and I've never seen someone's eyes light up like this before. As soon as I asked:

"How did you see the need for (company name)?"

They spent a good 20 minutes talking about it and how they got there. Sometimes people force a square peg into a circle hole, but this person really sees and feels the need for the product. Very refreshing.

I got my severance check today, and although it is a decent chunk of change, I still don't feel secure. Numbers wise, with this money + savings + my wife's consistent income, we can last quite a while. In my head though I am still on high alert.

When will I find a new job? Will I find a job new? If I get an interview, am I going to fumble hard?

Interviewing is perseverance and a healthy dosage of luck. I really need the luck.

I don't even know if it's worth reviewing dynamic programming problems on Leetcode.

If a company gave me this problem with the 10 years of experience I have, what are they even trying to gauge from me?

First time filing for unemployment after the layoff. I didn't even know it was something I was eligible, so I'm lucky I spoke to my friend the other day.

Being unemployed for the first time in 9 years is definitely more stressful than I thought. I have enough money to ride out a job search for about 8 months, but still. Not having recurring income for the first time is scary.

I don't know what's wrong with me.

Whenever I interview, it takes me almost 3/4 of the allotted time to grasp the problem. I don't know if it's because I am truly dyslexic, or if I'm really bad under stress / time constraint.

After the interview I was able to finish the problem within 10 minutes, but by then it's just too late.

Can't help but feel like a bad about it.

- joins new company
- here for a month
- finds out entire team is getting laid off
- hr: "can you finish your 30 day survey please"

every new project is asking for a slack channel that we can pipe things into.

the effort is low, but the need for this instead of just looking at a dashboard that just takes a sql query is so fjdasjfdalfd.

What's up with recent Bootcamp grads putting themselves as "full stack engineer"s or "software engineer"s on LinkedIn when they haven't even had their first job yet? They build two projects and they think they are already engineers with zero relative job experience?

I don't get it.

Does "Education Technology" fall under "Education" for getting the Covid vaccine? Or do y'all think that is kind of stretching it?

When you have no more tickets on your plate for a sprint, do you usually ask for more tickets, or do you wait to get assigned more tickets?

I'm the new guy, and don't want to work too fast, but also don't want to work too slow.

my laptop as soon as I start building my app locally

I've been doing software development for my personal projects on Windows OS since college, and I just started dual booting Ubuntu...

How did I not realize how slow Windows was for coding until now? Holy. The customization of Ubuntu is insane.

Get me out of here.

I put in my two-week notice last week, had the weekend to really digest that decision, and damn. It's crazy how light I feel knowing that I'll be joining a new company soon.

I'm moving to a better opportunity, and not running away from a problem.

How do you deal with interview rejection? I thought I could be stronger especially since I'm in my late-ish 20s... But that hasn't helped. I still tear up and get really, really down.

Been studying for the last 4 months, and was hoping to hold onto my job until I signed on the dotted line for a new job, but I just can't take this job anymore.

Does anyone have experience quitting their job to interview/find a new job? My only concern is that I have rent to pay, but I have some reserved funds to get through this time I believe.

If you don't have an empty can of fizzy water or a half-empty company water bottle next to you, are you really in the zone?

After over 250 hours of studying since October, and doing multiple mock interviews a week, I'm finally starting to feel more confident in myself. I feel confident in the work I've accomplished over the time at my current company, and can think about it more critically.

It also helps to know I have my first "on-site" next week, have multiple technical phone screenings set up, and know that I'll be jumping to a new company sooner than later.

Studying really pays off if you do it well.

The best part of our daily standups is hearing my coworker's daughter whispering "Baba~" in the background, trying to get his attention for whatever reason.

Then when we end the meeting and say bye, you hear her in the background yell "Bye Bye~"

Adds a little cuteness to what usually is a very dull meeting.

Is there an eloquent way to say you sped up your UI rendering by X percent with projections and sessionStorage? Or is this not a kind of point you'd want to hit on a resume?

I really dislike the company I work at.

I want to say hate, but there are parts that I adore (mostly the people I get to work with).

However, I dislike:
- The management
- The way engineers are treated
- Lack of responsibility for on QA for finding bugs, and it falling solely onto the engineers
- Sales circle jerk every All Hands meeting
- The amount of "ring-around-the-rosy" they played with me for a 10k raise (took 12+ months and not what I was looking for when I first asked)
- They lie

Just a shitty company overall. Interesting product depending on what team you're on, but overall I'd rather dye my hair green and become a talking broccoli stock.

The first day back to work after almost 2 weeks off...

And Slack is down. Time to make it a 2 weeks + 1 day vacation.

I feel so stressed at work right now.

QA signed off on a fix I made, I signed off on a fix I made, and other people signed off on the fix, but it gets out to production and people find it's broken, I get the finger pointed at me.

It's really stressing me out, especially when our client needs custom logic to make their use cases work, and the BE and FE are scrambling to make it work.

It's really affecting the way I work and I don't know what to do. I talked to my boss and he just tells me to "stay positive". Someone please help me.

Remember that your Product Manager, Project Manager, etc are not your friend. They are coworkers first and friend second if you classify them as that. Learned that the hard way the other day.