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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24/ Which skills should you strive to acquire?
Keep in mind the Hedgehog Principle: Try to find the intersection of what you're good at, what you like to do, and what someone is willing to pay you to do
jimcollins.com/concepts/the-h
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Aren't they essentially the same idea with the intersection being called different things?
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How clear is the line between what the world needs and what you can be paid for? And doesn't "economic engine" in the hedgehog cover those bases
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They seem worth separating to me. They’re only the same if you’re so financially desperate you can’t trade off money and meaning. Meaning generally comes from seeing something that needs doing that you’re the right person for, and doing it, regardless of whether you get paid.
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