I have basically been doing a second job sending out applications and interviewing hard core for about a year now. There is so much time I have accumulated in take home projects. Anxiety is a big issue for me interviews(Yes, I am a woman) and even in ones that go well I am still clearly minorly affected by it. There was one back in November that I got to the stage of being flown out to their office. At the end of the interview during small chit chat I was nervously talking about the stickers on my personal laptop.(My plane had been delayed to weather and I was basically interviewing with them a couple hours after everyone would normally stop working.)
My count on applications is well past fifty and I have done so many phone screens(HR and technical) that all of them seem like a blur to me. At this point I wish I could throw a portfolio of my work at a company and get a job. From a Reddit thread about "unrealistic car mods" shows my overall skill set in my ability to get the job done. https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/hdrgv1/car_people_of_...
My current job I got because I found a major vulnerability in the company's authentication system and recovered the private key for the client to server encryption.(I didn't make much money at the time and didn't want to pay the subscription cost for the premium service.)
I have interviewed/hired nearly every person on my current team. One of them was almost denied by a senior manager because the candidate wore a backwards baseball hat during the interview.(Lack of professional attire, etcetera.) The rest of the interviewers over ruled the manager saying that was a dumb reason. Turns out this candidate was super conscious of a balding spot on his head and he wore hats to hide it. He turned out to be an amazing coder and great at solving problems that came up.
My count on applications is well past fifty and I have done so many phone screens(HR and technical) that all of them seem like a blur to me. At this point I wish I could throw a portfolio of my work at a company and get a job. From a Reddit thread about "unrealistic car mods" shows my overall skill set in my ability to get the job done. https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/hdrgv1/car_people_of_...
My current job I got because I found a major vulnerability in the company's authentication system and recovered the private key for the client to server encryption.(I didn't make much money at the time and didn't want to pay the subscription cost for the premium service.)
I have interviewed/hired nearly every person on my current team. One of them was almost denied by a senior manager because the candidate wore a backwards baseball hat during the interview.(Lack of professional attire, etcetera.) The rest of the interviewers over ruled the manager saying that was a dumb reason. Turns out this candidate was super conscious of a balding spot on his head and he wore hats to hide it. He turned out to be an amazing coder and great at solving problems that came up.