How To Get Hired: It's A Game
Coders are such a different lot than us media people, but programmer Sean Grove’s story might prove instructive nonetheless.
After finding himself stranded in Mountain View and urgently needing to find a job, he sent out 50 applications, receiving email responses from most, asking for answers to coding questions or brainteasers (you know, the “how many golf balls can fit in a school bus” things).
He did well enough to get phone screenings from 40 companies. Practiced with a friend doing mock interview questions and ultimately passed 25 of those interviews.
“Of course, once you go through ~15 of these interviews, it’s no accident when you start to solve the problem in a more and more optimized way.
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