April 19, 2016
To write code for a competition/ assessment is to like to play a sports match. Julia still has to work on mental toughness, and improve her probability to pass any code assessment. How to keep calm in crucial moment?
Spend a lot of hours to work on techniques, practice; but in the crucial moment, allow the pressure take control, and cannot execute as normal.
How to do your best? practice, continue to improve and be in present. It takes a lot of discipline. A lot of experience under the situation. Be in present, problem solving.
Take notes from the talk in the video:
Key #1:
1. Be present. Do not think about past, do not think about future;
Do not allow yourself travel time line; What if you lose, do not take it too seriously; do not focus on the future outcome. Second guess themselves, it is not good.
Focus on present, problem needs to be solved.
2. Learn to embrace your nerves and anxieties. Everybody gets nervous, does not matter how good you are, how long you play. Every one has anxiety, every one has fears over winning or losing. It is natural response if you are put in the competition.
As a matter of fact, it is a great thing to feel nervous and anxiety. This shows that you care about outcome. Use it to sharpen your focus, sharpen your perform.
Do not put yourself in a downward spiral.
video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8KjshrxS48
Arguments:
Amazon hiring bar: better coding than 50% existing employees. Code assessment is just a basic skills indicator. Learn from the experience.
https://goo.gl/HkHyFV
Always memorize a bible verse to calm down:
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
Psalm139： 17 -18 NIV
June 14, 2016
Study 2 hours on the blog:
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-get-over-my-failed-interview-at-Amazon
Study the article - July 4, 2016
http://firstround.com/review/Mechanize-Your-Hiring-Process-to-Make-Better-Decisions/
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Friday, February 5, 2016
Do not complain - a tip worthy to share
February 5, 2016
Chinese new year is coming in 2 days. And then, spent a few hours to watch videos about Canadian immigrant story.
"Do not complain", the video about Robert Herjavec, a Canadian story, an immigrant story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5uD62Plakg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s9qJ7ATP7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYprh2qkeDY
1. Be great on one thing
2. Never complain (Never complain, no one cares.
short story: Appreciate the opportunity. The father was laid off from sweeping the floor job, did not take unemployment pay when Robert tried to fill the form for his dad, his father did not want anything from the Canada which gives him opportunity. 20 dollars his dad came to Canada with wife and son, taking a boat with a suitcase)
3. Just keep going
4. Create value for your customers
5. Become the person others want to know
6. Listen to yourself
7. Leave your emotions out of it
8. Be able to adapt
9. Find what makes you tick
10. You are in control of everything
Robert Herjavec: The will to win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GxQ9KoaUJ0
Do not classify people loser. People give up, being a loser. Being a winner is easy, being a loser, keep going. Everything can go, go wrong for me.
Mental strength. Train for marathon for 20 days. The way you gain confidence, you just do it.
Just do it. You gain confidence by your experience.
If you are successful, money will follow.
Be efficient. Adaptability. If you are dropped in jungle, you will survive.
With kindness - kills the competition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Mf2s4OJSU
Love tech industry - every 3 years it reinvents itself.
What is the purpose of business? Create customer, create value for them. ( Julia's still thinking about it)
Leave emotion out of it. Be angry, make bad decisions.
Listening - what people try to say to you.
Let go - success is not good at everything. Find thing you are good at. Let go others. The world will reward you with very narrow knowledge.
Be world class on one thing. Do not worry about your weakness.
The minute you find that you are successful, it is the end of it. Keep going. Be master everything you choose, react with.
Conclusion:
Do not complain how time-consuming to improve skills by working on Leetcode algorithms.
Try to stay calm when performing algorithms. Do not give in nervousness.
Be mental toughness on problem solving. Always focus on current problem. Not worry about next one, or other thing. Try to do small, simple, stupid things first, see if it leads an idea or solution, and then, try to improve, and optimize it if need.
Chinese new year is coming in 2 days. And then, spent a few hours to watch videos about Canadian immigrant story.
"Do not complain", the video about Robert Herjavec, a Canadian story, an immigrant story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5uD62Plakg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s9qJ7ATP7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYprh2qkeDY
1. Be great on one thing
2. Never complain (Never complain, no one cares.
short story: Appreciate the opportunity. The father was laid off from sweeping the floor job, did not take unemployment pay when Robert tried to fill the form for his dad, his father did not want anything from the Canada which gives him opportunity. 20 dollars his dad came to Canada with wife and son, taking a boat with a suitcase)
3. Just keep going
4. Create value for your customers
5. Become the person others want to know
6. Listen to yourself
7. Leave your emotions out of it
8. Be able to adapt
9. Find what makes you tick
10. You are in control of everything
Robert Herjavec: The will to win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GxQ9KoaUJ0
Do not classify people loser. People give up, being a loser. Being a winner is easy, being a loser, keep going. Everything can go, go wrong for me.
Mental strength. Train for marathon for 20 days. The way you gain confidence, you just do it.
Just do it. You gain confidence by your experience.
If you are successful, money will follow.
Be efficient. Adaptability. If you are dropped in jungle, you will survive.
With kindness - kills the competition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Mf2s4OJSU
Love tech industry - every 3 years it reinvents itself.
What is the purpose of business? Create customer, create value for them. ( Julia's still thinking about it)
Leave emotion out of it. Be angry, make bad decisions.
Listening - what people try to say to you.
Let go - success is not good at everything. Find thing you are good at. Let go others. The world will reward you with very narrow knowledge.
Be world class on one thing. Do not worry about your weakness.
The minute you find that you are successful, it is the end of it. Keep going. Be master everything you choose, react with.
Conclusion:
Do not complain how time-consuming to improve skills by working on Leetcode algorithms.
Try to stay calm when performing algorithms. Do not give in nervousness.
Be mental toughness on problem solving. Always focus on current problem. Not worry about next one, or other thing. Try to do small, simple, stupid things first, see if it leads an idea or solution, and then, try to improve, and optimize it if need.
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