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Rejected from a top tech company? Build a side project.

Jeff Meyerson on October 01, 2019

You made it through the online coding problem nonsense. You endured the tedious whiteboarding problems. You sat before the condescending interviewe...
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Michael

This is the most interesting and 'confidence boosting' post I have ever read because truth be told I was already feeling useless. Almost as if you wrote it for me because I have lost track of my rejections and I'm still currently jobless.
Thank you! Signed up on findCollabs too so should be fun!!

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Jeff Meyerson

Really glad to hear that. Keep pushing. For most people, it gets easier over the years. You learn that this is just a dumb game that we are all playing in the tech industry, and it's similar to when someone forces you to play a board game that you don't want to play.

It's not a great game, but you should either keep focused on winning that game or find out some other game to play. (I hope FindCollabs is an alternative game.)

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Michael

Thank you!!!

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ogrotten

Neat. Great idea for a site.

The main page is quite scrolly on DT. Had you considered doing something tiled or columned?

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Jeff Meyerson

Yea the UX of the feed definitely needs work. But I like the experience of the single scrolly feed.

Quora is cool in that it's a feed but also has horizontal feed modules in it. So maybe something like that?

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ogrotten

If it were a wider column, like side by side image/text, it would be more informative and take less space. It could then switch to the toptext/bottom image for mobile views.