| What is important to employers? 1. A candidate who can solve puzzles but is not willing to do the dirty work with team, solving production issues, doing debugging, bug fixing with usual stuff.
2. Another Candidate, who is willing to learn, is ready to work with team and do the dirty work. I am on a hiring committee as a Tech Lead, and I always try to weed out 1. Works great, we hire as interns and then assess them. Someone from Google who we hired full time, was detrimental to team's morale, grunting, complaining about code, complaining about food and what not. Another experienced smartass was self centered on his skills and didn't want to teach junior engineers anything or willing to admit he needs to update his skills. The moment he realized his skills have no values, started attending pointless conferences. Now his LinkedIn profile has "aware of block chain technology", "attended machine learning seminars". I said not to interviewing at Google and FB because I don't have cycles to spend months on leetcode. Did I erred? Perhaps. But I am sure neither can provide me same work quality I execute in my current mid size company. I regret nothing :). |