News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off). Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off) by dan-robertson on Saturday November 26, 2022 @05:30PM (#33757504)
If you need to practice leetcode like things for interviews, aren’t you also doing free ‘work’? Only in that case it’s more proof-of-work than something actually useful. Perhaps one could point at the openly viewable results when talking to other companies.

The strategy strikes me as a little weird but not crazy. If you like open source already, it might make a lot of sense.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off) by culi on Saturday November 26, 2022 @05:46PM (#33757650)
> If you need to practice leetcode like things for interviews, aren’t you also doing free ‘work’? Only in that case it’s more proof-of-work than something actually useful.

This might be true, but at least the skills are easy to show off on a resume and will help you with other interviews. Open-source contributions might vary drastically in nature and might be harder to leverage as experience/proof of skill

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off) by mettamage on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:07PM (#33757864)
Many tech interviews at startups are simply: "talk about a project you once did :)"
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off) by floweronthehill on Sunday November 27, 2022 @09:07AM (#33763012)
Where do you find these startups? My experience with startup interviews is FAANGesque leetcode + system design questions.
[ Parent | on HN ]