I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by holdenc on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:57PM (#18944553)

I am like you. For me, the solution has been build something and show it off. Building a great and useful app rarely requires Herculean feats of logic and puzzle solving.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by nailer on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:40PM (#18944979)

Years ago I was rejected by Google for a permanent position, then a year later employed at a much better rate as a contractor in the same building I'd interviewed in. I'd built a relatively cool app (full stack, from Linux to Tornado to JavaScript to UX), like Secret or YikYak (but a few years before either).

The people in Creative Lab were impressed with the ride range of knowledge I had, the SRE guys who rejected me got stuck into me for mixing up some VMware terminology.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by widforss on Saturday January 19, 2019 @07:51AM (#18946778)

My current problem is that I built an app and showed of to some gov agencies, and now that demo app is solving their business problems.

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