[andrew_wc_brown]

Yes! Space Repetition Learning is amazing.

For me its wasn't about becoming a 10X developer but proving that I was already 10X because I was facing a salary cap of 120K CAD where I saw friends working as long as me 180K+ CAD and some 250K+ CAD. The last job I attempted we had a 55 year old developer being paid the same as me doing the same rot work and I said thats not going to happen to me.

I've always been a person that gets things done but when you asked me how I did it I could never regurgitate the factoids.

Interviewers or other developers thought I was stupid/faking because their probing of my knowledge came down to superficial factoids and not evaluating the past work as a whole where I literally have 30+ projects. Hiring is broken and instead of getting upset about it you just have to meet the checklist.

I have Cracking the Coding Interview and I've been through that book 3x and I can not remember the contents of it because that book has been more more useful to me to prompt up my monitor than in my in the day to day work.

I feel when you're a developer 10 years in you'll be forgetting things as quick as you learn them but proving you have in-memory knowledge is super important.

I use Anki and Mnemosyne but found their UIs clunky and so I built my own Space Repetition Learning flash card system. I was studying for AWS Certifications and I wanted a way to tied practice exam questions I wrote to flashcards so when I got questions wrong it would reload my deck, and one I memorized all the factoids via space repetition learning I could go back and attempt a practice exam.

Now when people ask me whats the different between RAID 0 vs RAID 1 I know which is stripping or mirroring.

I got so carried away building my study system it because my own startup called ExamPro: https://exampro.co

Its really nice to have something you can build where you actually have domain knowledge and its the first time independently where I was successful building a startup that has generated revenue.

I could build anything but without domain knowledge I could never sell what I could build and now I can and its wonderful.

Space Repetition Learning changed my life. Who knew?

[gridlockd]

Is hiring really that broken? Not everyone hires like that and if they do, maybe they're no good to begin with.

I keep hearing how the interviews at Google are really tough, but then a lot of the people who actually get through quit in the first weeks. It can't be that great of a job.

[rabidrat]

Yes, hiring really is that broken. Everyone who is a player who is openly "hiring" is playing that same game. "if they do maybe they're no good to begin with" is sour grapes, and while it may be true, it's also true that almost no company is good. But they have the money and I need the money, so.

Speaking of which, "it can't be that great of a job"...no, of course not, it's a job. But a job is a job (roughly speaking), and a $300k/year job is to many/most people twice as good as a $150k/year job.

[solitus]

Fellow Canadian here.

How much experience do you have and what city are you from? What employers offer $180k+?

I’m in Montreal with 4-5 years “fullstack” experience. Seems jobs are rarely going above 100K around here. I barely make 100K right now.

[qnsi]

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