| > Should I mention that I was basically unemployed the last 3 years and did crypto trading? I wouldn't frame it that way. If you made enough money to cover your rent and living expenses, and weren't collecting unemployment from your local government, then you weren't unemployed. You had a non-traditonal, remote/work from home job, that others would be envious of. Just because there's no office, no boss, no timecard doesn't mean you were unemployed. I'm betting you spent many many hours in front of a computer to get your Algo edge in order to make money. That's called a job. > On the other hand, I can't prove anything I say and there is no reference that proves that I actually was that good. It's on the block chain. Make a transaction and sign it with the hash of "I'm Michael Baer and <secret salt>" so if anyone doubts your story, you can tell them what the secret salt is so they can follow the transactions on the chain itself if they don't believe you're the owner of the wallet you say you are. The beauty of companies that use leetcode as their hiring bar is that a smart person who didn't get an ivy league degree and doesn't have traditional experience they can put on their resume means that you can still walk in the front door, ace the test, and get a job. On your resume, dig into what you did as an Algo trader. What code you had to write, what data analysis you did in order to get that edge, etc. |