I am honestly going through this RIGHT now. After being part of a 3rd mass layoff during COVID, I took some time off since it was summer and I was in the middle of renovating my house. I knew by August I wanted to start ramping up studies to get ready for interviews, but I already had two interviews lined up. I FELT RUSTY. One company scheduled me for a 30min pair programming through Coderpad. It ended up taking 1hr and even though I was filled with so much anxiety, it was a great experience. Thankfully I had an amazing developer go through it with me and it was as if we worked together and were working through algorithms together. He gave insightful feedback and I have the 2nd round of coderpad technical testing on Friday but to build a react piece together. STILL nervous but it will probably be helpful. Another company gave me a take-home-build-an-app-in-this-timeframe challenge. Again, it was super helpful as I built something and learned a lot of new things, also again more practice. There were some incomplete parts to the challenge but it is something I can continue working on my own time and then eventually use as a project piece to showcase as it encompasses some big pieces. Also, I could use it as a template for future projects. So ya.. SUPER scary personally for me to go through but even if I don't get these roles, I still learned a lot in the past week going through these two interviews and hopefully it prepares me for the next ones! Keep building things and I would also do daily small coding exercises from hackerrank, codesignal, leetcode, exercise, and codewars to name a few. Have fun!!!
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I am honestly going through this RIGHT now. After being part of a 3rd mass layoff during COVID, I took some time off since it was summer and I was in the middle of renovating my house. I knew by August I wanted to start ramping up studies to get ready for interviews, but I already had two interviews lined up. I FELT RUSTY. One company scheduled me for a 30min pair programming through Coderpad. It ended up taking 1hr and even though I was filled with so much anxiety, it was a great experience. Thankfully I had an amazing developer go through it with me and it was as if we worked together and were working through algorithms together. He gave insightful feedback and I have the 2nd round of coderpad technical testing on Friday but to build a react piece together. STILL nervous but it will probably be helpful. Another company gave me a take-home-build-an-app-in-this-timeframe challenge. Again, it was super helpful as I built something and learned a lot of new things, also again more practice. There were some incomplete parts to the challenge but it is something I can continue working on my own time and then eventually use as a project piece to showcase as it encompasses some big pieces. Also, I could use it as a template for future projects. So ya.. SUPER scary personally for me to go through but even if I don't get these roles, I still learned a lot in the past week going through these two interviews and hopefully it prepares me for the next ones! Keep building things and I would also do daily small coding exercises from hackerrank, codesignal, leetcode, exercise, and codewars to name a few. Have fun!!!