technomada / tech-employment-notes

Tech job serarch notes

Notes from my experence with technical job search.

resume/network

sources

• google jobs
• indeed
• linkedin
• glassdoor
• hacker news
  • Ask HN: Who is hiring?
  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

alts

• videos
• blogs
• projects / work history
• project history matrix

reading

• Consider starting a company? -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565220

programs (for structure)

thoughts, one size doesn't fit all

• resume / work history
• projects
• blogs
• get to know

resume

• human and content readers

brush up on

• algos
• BigO
• design patterns

practicing

• pramp
• hackerrank

suggestions

• apply if over 50% of bullet points

organization [amp up your game to support many irons in the fire]

• simple text file
• spreadsheet
• notion
• crm

tips

• past some basic points they're looking not to see if you can code, but how you code
• initially not trying to impress, but trying to avoid getting filtered out