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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by TheHegemon on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:06PM (#18943084)
I have a wife, three boys (one who doesn't sleep through the night), and a full-time job as well. Usually I just practice after putting the kids to bed. It's possible you just need to carve out some time even if it's an hour or two a night.
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by chrshawkes on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:08PM (#18943566)
I have an IT YouTube channel where I discuss being a self-taught developer. I studied for years each night after getting home from my full-time non-IT job. Wife, 2 kids and mortgage as well.

Now, twenty million people have watched me and I have been in the industry for 10 years as a senior software engineer. I wouldn't pass Google's interview either I bet, but they invited me to an educational convention last year.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by ilikehurdles on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:09PM (#18943111)
What kind of things do you practice?
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by TheHegemon on Friday January 18, 2019 @06:27PM (#18944106)
Generally it's algorithms that I find interesting. Recently spent a couple of days trying to figure out how HyperLogLog works.
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