Increasingly, I'm finding that my IT degree at Phoenix is not serving me well. I'm good at creating line of business applications, but not good at any of the University Computer Science stuff that they exercise in coding interviews.
@durron597 I've been busy sending out resumes and following up potential leads. I know it's not an excuse, but I get bogged down in HackerRank. I do three or four problems and I've killed the whole day. I feel like I need some better background in Algorithms and Data Structures before I go there again.
Not yet. I now have a copy of Cracking the Code Interview, planning on going through that. I also have Sams Teach Yourself Data Structures in 24 hours. Yeah, I know; it's just scratching the surface. I have Corben's Algorithms and Data Structures book also, but at 1300 pages that looks like a bit of a slog.
@durron597 Honestly, learning Scheme seems like a bit of a luxury at this point.
I would say that's pretty darn comprehensive. balanced trees, quicksort (all forms), heapsort, (you don't need merge sort, it's easy) and spanning trees / shortest path algorithms. including complexity analysis of all (learn why all the operations are worst case log n in tree algorithms), that's more than most people learn in algorithms 1.
the only major things missing that we covered in algorithms is NP-completeness/complexity theory, and hashing functions
no one will ever expect you to understand how that works, as long as you know that a hashmap is O(1) for contains and insertion/deletion
I also need to put together an Angular application to show off. And advanced SQL Server (Stored procedures, everyone seems to want that). Entity Framework, HTML5, CSS3. You know the drill. The only good news is I know exactly what that application is going to look like.
Apparently SE decided that mods didn't need to see email addresses anymore. I don't recall ever sending someone an email from their private account info.
i thought that was how they resolved certain kinds of issues, like if a very high rep user began to delete all their posts, you could email them to see if they had been hacked
shrug i think the key to finding a job is to first figure out what you actually want. it makes it much easier to write a good cover letter if you actually care about getting that job
all this talk about how the job search is like dating that we've had a half dozen times already
if you seem like you'll take any girl who comes your way, none of them want you
A recent Stack Overflow blog post claims that:
With nearly five open jobs for every available software developer, the need for qualified technical talent is higher than ever.
I have seen this claim repeated many times, with different numbers cited, but I've not been able to get down to any ...
if i was at a bar and a woman smiled at me while smoking, i wouldn't go over to her and flirt - i'm not interested. if i was feeling snarky i might go over and give her a lecture about how bad cigarettes are for you, but most likely i'd ignore her
it's the same with the job posting. you read the posting, and it was the equivalent of seeing a girl smoking for me
you decided to give "her" a lung cancer lecture
but you were never going to actually ask "her" out
It's a hard habit to break. Chiding people is a waste of time, and employers really, really don't care what you or I think about the way they run their business.
But I still do it. On Stack Overflow, Programmers. Here, behind their back.
I think you'll find the search more rewarding if you limit your correspondence to employers where you actually think you want to work there
@RobertHarvey Sure it was!
Apply to fewer jobs, but spend more time on your cover letter and resume. Make it really targeted. Research the company first
And most importantly, make sure it actually sounds like work you want to do... not these "full stack" jobs where they expect you to be chef, waiter, busboy and maitre'd all at once
A recent Stack Overflow blog post claims that:
With nearly five open jobs for every available software developer, the need for qualified technical talent is higher than ever.
I have seen this claim repeated many times, with different numbers cited, but I've not been able to get down to any ...
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