notes-life-career

always take a copy of your resume with you to an interview (in case the ppl interviewing you weren't given it, or lost it, or forgot it) -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9703828

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" Things like: 1. Are you responsive to e-mails or IMs at all? I don't mean are you answering e-mails constantly and within 10 minutes each time, I mean "do you answer e-mails when you are asked for a response?" 2. Do you ask questions at all? If it's day 7 and you still don't have access to Github because you never asked "So where do I, you know... push code?" I have to wonder what you were doing from days 1 to 6. 3. Have you confirmed what your expectations are if they are not clear to you? I give a basic 1-day project fully expecting it to take a bit longer, but if it takes a whole week and you're silent, I have to ask why you think it's ok that you have no idea what's going on and that it's ok." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10132669

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https://triplebyte.com/

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working hard is important, but it's not enough. If you work really hard, but split your time between two projects, within each project (and hence your rewards and reputation) is as if you were only working 50%. So project management/time management/prioritization is important too. People call this 'working smart', but i think it's simpler to think of the goal as just 'getting stuff done'. What people care about is whether you get (their) stuff done.

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