April 10, 2021
Introduction
I met Andy in one of mock interviews on interviewing.io. I was impressed by his performance, but I learned his secret tips today. I like to share in the following.
Follow up after his own post
Thank you to everyone who viewed/reacted/commented on my last post.
Not long after I hit "Post," quite a few people reached out asking, essentially, "What's your secret?"
My answer: Working hard.
An incomplete list of things I've done earlier in my career to get myself hireable:
- Read #coding and #design books, cover to cover. The denser, the better. If there were code samples, I typed them out manually. If there were problem sets or project ideas, I did them.
- Mock interviewed with #softwareengineers from companies like Google, Facebook, Uber, etc. I didn't stop until I felt like I could consistently land a "strong hire" recommendation (i.e., a streak of 10+ successful sessions).
- Solved ~1200 problems on #LeetCode . Tack on another 100 or so problems between #GeeksforGeeks and #ProjectEuler. Even if we assume I spread it out perfectly (I didn't), that's one practice problem a day, every Monday through Thursday, for the past six years.
To be fair, most of that preparation was overkill.
But I wanted to demystify the idea that anything I've done is "inspiring" -- just the product of countless hours that I didn't take any particular pride (and still don't).
So if you're a recent #bootcamp grad... Congrats! You're 500 hours in. Only 9,500 hours until mastery. #Gladwell
Follow up
I like to figure out how to read books like Andy Wong does.
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