ALWAYS keep your resume floating around and build your 'presence' up. In other words, on sites like linked in, you should be posting your thoughts about development and showing off projects and adding people to your network. The industry is flooded on the lower end, but if you have established a sort of 'go-to' presence, you will be flooded with offers. The issue at hand for most recruiters and employers is weeding through hordes of candidates to find someone that can do the job without any sort of hand-holding, because they don't want to train you.
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Learn Kotlin instead of Scala. Kotlin will mostly replace Java in a couple of years.
Actually look into Kotlin, RxJava and Coroutines. Master parallel programming.
I don't think the tech industry is going to bubble. The bar for competency is rising exponentially. It's like how Doctors get paid so much but not everyone can be a doctor because it takes so much work to get to that level.
As a almost grad looking for jobs I have to agree with @kevm3 I live here in europe and even here the requirments for jobs are ridiculous. Even for grads you are expected to know version control,sql, a programming language and some framework from day one. And even over here it seems like comapnies are doing the whole silicone valley process. And like what he said with entry level jobs being flooded i have heard the same over here
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Yeah I’ve been thinking about getting into Kotlin. A lot of people say it’s a much better version of Java.
You are better off exploring the place you work at's code base.
Learn to read complex sequences in the code and what exactly its doing.
Reading code is a super important skill to develop, because as you progress you end up reading code and explaining to others what its doing than just coding.
wastedmermaid
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Yeah I been working on getting better at that too. You got any tips or suggestions?
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wastedmermaid
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Looking over it for a while I think I have a semi-decent idea what's going on with this.
PM him anyway, you have nothing to lose.
exactly. applying to countless jobs is required
Choose a feature in the app, set debug points in the code and follow it running step by step.
Eventually you should be able to see what its doing without debugging and just reading the code
Keep your skills sharp brehs. A dude I know, really tenacious and resourceful developer, failing interviews on small details. I'm running the gauntlet to commit some sorting algorithms to memory right now. When I can churn out an implementation on command I'll move on to probably searching.
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Also remember, a lot of job searching is luck, and not a 100% mark on your skills.
I mentioned in the other thread, one of the smartest people I knew at my last job was this Korean cat (born and raised here) and was really cool folks. That guy can recite algorithms on command from memory. I legit think he could get any software job he wanted.
Anyways, dude got annihilated during his facebook phone interview because he had an interviewer who could barely speak clean English.
The second he heard her talk he was like "fuuuuuuuck"
Dude said it was going so bad he was about to ask her "Are you Korean and if you are, do you mind if we speak that because this would be much easier if you did."
Once he found out the question she was trying to ask, he said he solved it in like a minute. But to her "he took pretty long."
Like I said, he got a job offer with Google afterward so it was cool, but I think that experience really hit him hard for a day or two.
I can't remember which book it was, but a successful interview depends on both the person being interviewed and the person doing the interview. If you run into a question that is really over your head or for some reason you can't seem to figure it out, a great interviewer will keep you calm and remind you that it's a tough problem.
I mentioned in the other thread, one of the smartest people I knew at my last job was this Korean cat (born and raised here) and was really cool folks. That guy can recite algorithms on command from memory. I legit think he could get any software job he wanted.
Anyways, dude got annihilated during his facebook phone interview because he had an interviewer who could barely speak clean English.
The second he heard her talk he was like "fuuuuuuuck"
Dude said it was going so bad he was about to ask her "Are you Korean and if you are, do you mind if we speak that because this would be much easier if you did."
Once he found out the question she was trying to ask, he said he solved it in like a minute. But to her "he took pretty long."
Like I said, he got a job offer with Google afterward so it was cool, but I think that experience really hit him hard for a day or two.
I can't remember which book it was, but a successful interview depends on both the person being interviewed and the person doing the interview. If you run into a question that is really over your head or for some reason you can't seem to figure it out, a great interviewer will keep you calm and remind you that it's a tough problem.
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