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16/ 1st type of interview: Do practice interviews, with your friends, or friendly seniors from industry. Just going through the most typical questions in a friendly but realistic setting helps with the interview jitters.
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17/ 2nd type of interview: Informational interview. _You_ interview ("meet") people from the industry and ask them questions about the industry, their company, and what they look for in candidates.
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18/ If you send a clear request giving your background and saying, "I'd like to buy you a coffee and ask you questions about your company and industry. I will not take more than 30 minutes of your time," you'll be surprised at how many people say yes.
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19/ 3rd type of practice interview: Actual interviews with potential employers. As I said about, you will get rejected many times by many companies. Think of all of those interviews as practice for the one interview that you're going to succeed at.
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20/ Improve interview success by doing online courses from top universities in the world (e.g. via Coursera). Two benefits: the increased knowledge increases your confidence, but also, the online courses are so well explained that your explanations during interviews will improve
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21/ The ideal way to get a job is to do a good project (with the help of an industry senior if necessary), put it on github, create a project report also on github, and send a link to potential employers Make the interview irrelevant A real life example: ashm8206.github.io
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22/ If you have multiple job prospects, don't focus too much on the salary. Your career will be 50-years long. Starting salary has very low significance. Optimize for learning+responsibility. If you plot salary on y-axis vs time on x, slope is far more important than y-intercept
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22/ After getting a job, many assume that further skills upgrades are the responsibility of the company. Serious mistake. This has worked for a few decades in the Indian software industry, but the world is changing too fast, and those not continuously learning will be left behind
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23/ How to pick the right industry, right company, so that your future is secure? Nobody knows Anyone who answers this with confidence is either deluded, or a liar. The only defense is to have broad tranferable skills, and be good at reacting to changes and pivoting fast
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