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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get pigeonholed to certain comp... by abeyer on Monday August 27, 2018 @12:01AM (#17849358)
> I have a non-STEM degree and no internships. I picked up my first web dev jobs just from scouring Craigslist. Smaller companies that were open-minded enough to give a junior dev a shot.

Given that, are you sure you're 100% on the technical side of interviewing...particularly algorithmic type questions? Whether you agree with the approach or not, they tend to be more common and given more weight with bigger companies.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get pigeonholed to certain comp... by amazonavocado on Monday August 27, 2018 @01:12AM (#17849567)
Amazingly, the only company in the tech hubs that has given me any algorithmic questions is Amazon. But I am not deluded enough to say I am 100% doing well on the technical side.

All the other companies with some reasonable amount of public exposure, (like Zillow, Coinbase, ArenaNet, to give a few examples) interviewed me on more holistic and technical concepts, such as how would you use an API to build a website, or how would you design a database, etc.

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