Any time

Bye bye. SE isn't for you 😔

haha... I know this. Common problem, but simple fix, just takes a lot more time than you might expect. If you're in that position, you just need to do a lot more problems to get better. I'd target about 3 or so problems per day, and just keep practicing over and over. Not glamorous, but that's what I know works!

😂I know right, you're a person of culture!

Thank you so much 😀

hmmm. book a time with me let's talk. Link should be in the description of the video

awesome!!!! all the best man! I hope you get to the final stages as well

hmm... 🤔what do you mean? like how I got the meta interview?

Absolutely! Real lifesaver!

haha! thanks!

thanks! appreciate the feedback!

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😭I know right

😂that might be fun to do actually. I'll consider that

It is

It's a feasible goal, just a lot harder. Immigrating to the US might be the easiest option, but it's not impossible to do this from Ghana

lol. Mey3 Ghana ni

thanks man

Thanks a lot! Appreciate it!

check out this linkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/micah-nettey_softwareengineering-careeradvice-projects-activity-7270993164839141376-5h5P?

Thanks! Will do!❤️

ooops. Completely forgot the link. Just added it to the description now

Hello ?

Letss gggoooooo!!!

I would say apply as soon as possible. You won't be a laughing stock, in my opinion. It'll be much harder to even get responses than to be a laughing stock, so applying as soon as possible is the way to go

Haha. that is great! Makes the interview easy as well

The question of how to do this, I think, can be easily answered by listening to yourself talk, and seeing feedback from the interviewer. If, for example, you do a mock interview, and the interviewer mentions that you yapped a lot, maybe you may want to tone it down. Another example is if you find yourself explaining the approach (assume its right) to solve a problem so many times and the interviewer on multiple occasions does not understand your approach and asks you to restate it, it may mean that you have a problem with communicating your ideas straight forward. The way to practice this is with mock interviews, the other way is to solve leetcode problems with friends and explain your approach to solving it with them, and see if they get it almost immediately

Yeah. In a bit

That sounds great! Join my community to book a time with me here: www.skool.com/justfaang-2436/about

How did your interview go?

Thanks 💯

I will do that soon. This has been a tricky topic because it's highly subjective

Glad I could do that!

thanks a lot!

TLDR; do your best, and do more of it. Yeah man! I have to admit, that is the hard part. In most of my videos and with my clients, I always tell them "I really don't know for sure how to get past the resume stage. And this is for people who don't have any experience in the industry. If you're a senior engineer, my guess is, it's easier to get past the resume stage." Like you've pointed out, it is hard to determine why you're rejected, could be for thousands of reasons. We know there are factors within our control and factors beyond our control. For example, we can control how our resume looks, what projects go on it, we can control how many companies we apply to, we can control if we reach out to people there, if we build connections, and stuff like that. What we can't control are things like, would the referral even work for this company, we can't control if the position is dropped or filled, if there's enough headcount, and many other things. The way I like to approach it is, try to do your best in all these different areas that are within your control, and then do more of it... at the end of the day, you're probably only gonna be working one job, and you just kinda need one offer. So if how your resume looks and what projects are on it are within your control, you can make it look good. How would you know if it looks good? Send your resume out to about 30 or so people, some you know and some you've never met, just make sure they're not all within your comfort zone (like just all in your school or work, or something like that), and ask them to take a look, and tell you what they think. If 90% are saying the resume is pretty good, and the only suggestions are that you need some minor changes, then you know you're good on the resume. Maybe to increase your chances based on the job role, you may need to do some kinds of projects, and all that good stuff. Pretty long answer, but all that to say that, "I'm not sure the exact ways to get past the resume stage for all companies, but to increase your chances, do your best and then do more" For Meta, I really just applied and I got seen. I asked the recruiter why, but I didn't get an answer, so I'm not sure why they picked me. Based on what I know, they do pick quite a lot of people to get to the next stage after the resume stage, so I don't know what criteria they use

I've been watching some System Design Interview courses from Frank Kane, who has been working as a "bar raiser” (a person who comes at any stage of the interview process and helds veto authority over hiring decisions across the company), who interviewed over 1,000 candidates, and hired and managed hundreds into Amazon/iMDB and the whole process is crazy, your resume should pass a lot of automatic and manual checks before even be considered for review. And even if you successfully pass all screenings and technical interviews, there's always someone (like a "bar raiser") who helds the power to just reject you based on his own imaginary rules so, I would say that hiring process is like winning in some small lottery or casino. As soon as you know the rules and prepared to "play", there's not much you can do.

@@no_bs_science exactly. The process is way too complex to have a general rule that guarantees a result. A lot of it is dependent on factors that we can't control. That's why volume does matter to some degree. The rules for one particular company can change, so what worked five years ago, may not work now. We just need to be able to adapt and play the game with the ever changing rules

Glad you enjoyed

I think 200 more to good to go tbh

Yeah... you're probably good in some cases, but it depends on a lot of things. If you've only solved easy problems, then you're probably not good to go. If you've done 100 hard problems and you fully understand the concepts, then you're probably more than ready. The quantity of problems is not as important at the beginning as your understanding of the concepts. Do some kind of breadth to understand the concepts, and once you get the basic ideas, do more of it. That's my approach. I still do about an hour of leetcode per day myself, because I like it, and it just keeps me sharp, haha

Haha. thank you so much!!!

I think the whole process took about three months

Thank you very much!

Yeah! took me by surprise haha

thanks a lot man!

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Anytime! 🤲🏽

Appreciate it

Haha! Thanks a lot. Looking forward to dinner then

thanks a lot man! Appreciate it brother!

Glad you think so! Hope it helps a lot!

Appreciate it!! thanks a lot!

thanks a lot man! You're a big inspiration!

thank you so much!