New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to get to interview prep and return to work after long career gap?
Ask HN: How to get to interview prep and return to work after long career gap?
5 by w-hn | 1 comments on Hacker News.
It seems very daunting and fruitless exercise (fruitless in the sense that why to go for those leetcoding and studying standard design questions that will never be used). I am a mobile/Android developer. There was a general layoff at my last workplace and I was so burnt out I could not bring myself to look for jobs right then. First four months were actually good and I indeed needed that break. Then the delays kept stacking up. It seems it is impossible for me even bring myself to start preparing for interviews now. It's been 8-9 months total since the break started. I get calls and I kept pushing the interview/assignment dates sadly. I don't think I am still burnt out. I don't know whether it's laziness or procrastination. But I really do want to start it again. I must add that I am not "truly" passionate about "software/coding/cs" part of all this, but I am quite decent at it. However I love the problem solving part though - I love making things. I have an experience of 13-14 years - completely in Android - that also kinda makes me a one trick pony. Would you please suggest some tricks/methods/frameworks that I can try to jump-start it and kind of stick to that? If there are mobile/Android developers out there who could share your experience and some resources that would be lovely!
5 by w-hn | 1 comments on Hacker News.
It seems very daunting and fruitless exercise (fruitless in the sense that why to go for those leetcoding and studying standard design questions that will never be used). I am a mobile/Android developer. There was a general layoff at my last workplace and I was so burnt out I could not bring myself to look for jobs right then. First four months were actually good and I indeed needed that break. Then the delays kept stacking up. It seems it is impossible for me even bring myself to start preparing for interviews now. It's been 8-9 months total since the break started. I get calls and I kept pushing the interview/assignment dates sadly. I don't think I am still burnt out. I don't know whether it's laziness or procrastination. But I really do want to start it again. I must add that I am not "truly" passionate about "software/coding/cs" part of all this, but I am quite decent at it. However I love the problem solving part though - I love making things. I have an experience of 13-14 years - completely in Android - that also kinda makes me a one trick pony. Would you please suggest some tricks/methods/frameworks that I can try to jump-start it and kind of stick to that? If there are mobile/Android developers out there who could share your experience and some resources that would be lovely!
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