My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by potta_coffee on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:59AM (#26794186)

If you don't mind my asking, what was your study plan like? I'm self-taught and I'm in a similar position, I really need to study but I'm lacking an effective plan of attack.

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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by efsavage on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:23PM (#26794715)

I did the green book (McDowell) cover to cover, with a few dedicated hours of study each day, and random googling/tinkering where I wanted to explore more. I won't say it was the most fun I've ever had, or as self-motivating as a nice side project, but it was a good change of pace over gluing APIs together, so the novelty effect kept me going for a while. I probably put 150 hours of prep in over 6-8 weeks. The ROI on that time (relative to competing startup offers) was very far north of $1k/hour.

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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by rhines on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:40PM (#26796086)

Never heard it called the green book, usually just called by the acronym CTCI (Cracking The Coding Interview). Just commenting in case anyone else was confused.

Congrats on getting a good payoff on your work, and thanks for sharing the info about your process.

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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by hacliff on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:07PM (#26799332)

+1 on this, CTCI is worth its weight in gold

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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by potta_coffee on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:05PM (#26796506)

Thanks

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