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Re:Ask HN: How to very quickly land a job/gig with your curr... by ddtaylor on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:58PM (#17289355)
Have you tried https://leetcode.com or some of the interview prep sites like https://www.interviewcake.com ? Also with such little funds left (not judging, I'm in a similar situation myself) have you tried doing some less-than-awesome work on Upwork or Toptal?

Does your Github profile show your quality of work? I get a lot of job offers based purely on my Github profile, although I'm currently trying to launch a startup so I'm not accepting many.

What are your most marketable skills? Are you willing to learn new skills? It seems that ReactJS is in high demand, even if the framework is a bit funky IMO

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Re:Ask HN: How to very quickly land a job/gig with your curr... by ccdev on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:24PM (#17289484)
I am not sure how Leetcode would help out here in specific, for someone who already has years of proven programming experience with other companies. Any company who holds any water in what they do would substitute rote knowledge of algorithms with real world programming skills.
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Re:Ask HN: How to very quickly land a job/gig with your curr... by ddtaylor on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:56PM (#17289644)
Leetcode is used by many companies for interviews and whiteboards. For example when I interviewed at Facebook the first screening problems were from the site and the later whiteboard problems for the on-site interview were as well.
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Re:Ask HN: How to very quickly land a job/gig with your curr... by ccajas on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @03:39PM (#17297212)
I have no experience working with software "at scale" so it may be that my interviewing experiences are different from yours. Generally speaking, though, software developers at non-tech companies, or at agencies for small-med business clients (what I tend to work for) don't ask those kinds of technical questions.
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Re:Ask HN: How to very quickly land a job/gig with your curr... by smithmayowa on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:22AM (#17291829)
Do you mind linking your github profile so people can see what to aspire to as regards their github profile.
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