Re:Ask HN: How to overcome job search exhaustion?
by freedom2099 on Friday October 21, 2022 @06:07PM
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May I ask where do you live? I am almost 40 with more than 15y of experience (and a master degree in computer engineering in the top university of my country) and I have to fend off recruiters (I usually do a job interview every other month just to stay sharp - love my current workplace and would not consider changing- and end getting an offer most of the times).
Otherwise, everyone I know struggles. Interviews are now involving more and more esoteric questions about things that aren't even on my resume, and sometimes questions about tools that can only be answered if you memorized the entire 1000 page handbook of the tool.
I have been asked questions about things that were tangentially mentioned in my undergrad in a lecture 10 years ago, and I never used anything close to it in my job.
Leetcode hazing varies from place to place. If they insist on the most efficient solution, mostly you are fucked unless you live and breathe algos.
The only silver lining is dynamic programming questions have died out, probably because Meta stopped asking them.