Witty Writeups
This semester I spent a long time interviewing for a full time job. Apparently CS interview season for new grads is in the fall. Early fall. I started interviewing seriously mid September and accepted my offer from Facebook late November. Here’s a few things, 10 specifically, I learned after 18 interviews (counting full day rounds as 1) and 30+ hours of interviewing. 1) Regarding my time line, everyone’s different. I had friends who accepted a job even before school started, and who started interviewing in August.
5 Jan 2016
Before the summer So the background for this is that I’ve been using Excel to budget my summer spending since the summer after high school. A lot has changed since then. Back in Summer 2012, I spent less than $1000 for the entire summer, lived at home and worked 7 hours / week at a minimum wage job. This summer, I’m living with friends in Seattle, working full time at an internship, spending about $4000 for the summer.
4 Aug 2015
Getting Started I was lured to use Hugo because of its pretty front end on the main website and the promise that I could develop in Markdown. I have 3 websites, my front page, my blog and my portfolio and the first two are setup through hugo. Here’s my setup story. My setup I’m hosting it on github pages. Here’s my tutorial how to set that up. I’m using hugo with github pages.
3 Aug 2015
I’m not a professional resumé writing expert. But I’ve been getting practice updating mine for about 4 years now, since the senior year of high school (when applying to colleges) to now when I’m about to look for a real full time job on my way out of college (one more year left). For reference, my resume collection my resume templates, or my current resume. Here is my advice for how to present a summer experience, a project you did on a resume so that all the important information is communicated.
3 Aug 2015
Today’s post is about some quick git command line tricks if you are doing some work in progress (WIP). Scenario: You are working on the master branch and then realize you are going to have to test these changes on a bigger scale (perhaps cross repo) and thus new to push your changes to a new branch. Setup: On master branch, some git add have been made, no commits yet. Solution: First, remove all the staged files from the master branch.
21 Jul 2015