TheGoldenEel posted... I got got past the phone screening for Amazon to do I guess the first round assessment
leetcode is not giving me confidence
Nice! I been hearing some bad things about Amazon, but honestly if you can get Amazon on your resume you're set for life. So it's worth it just to "do your time". I would highly suggest looking up any Amazon question on the Leetcode discussions section of that website. I interviewed there like a couple of years ago, and all the questions asked I've seen before. Unfortunately, I still fucked up one of the questions because I forgot how to answer it.
shironinja posted... Enjoy! Love what you do never work a day in your life.
Another fun thing to do if you haven't already is think about a problem you may have and then write a software system to solve it. These could be random mundane things like:
- Keeping track of your games collection
- Organizing your fridge and alerting you when a product is about to expire
- Todo app (this is done to death though so kind of boring imho)
- Tracking how many poops your cat takes in a week
- Or just whatever.. try to think of as stupid as an idea as you can because those may end up to be the most funny and rewarding to work on
Once you feel more confident in system design and start considering things like queues and messaging pick any random application you use on your phone .. then duplicate it's main functionality by creating a process diagram of what it does, interfaces of components, throw it into a ticket tracking system (sticky notes are a good one), and then just start carving out work.
This tends to uncover a lot of interesting problems that you wouldn't otherwise think about. You will be forced to perform research and learn a lot, gaining confidence and the ability to speak about it along the way.
Really good ideas. I'll start doing this starting tomorrow actually. I've mean meaning to also look up how messaging queues work again.