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For my day job , I took a bit of a windy road before finding it. First I decided to study in Korea the summer after my first year of university, and ended up never leaving. I studied Korean in a university language center for a year before transferring to a Korean university where I happened upon a summer internship at my eventual future employer (Engineering & Construction) on the exclusive student job/intern messag…
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As someone who works at Amazon and has been rejected by Facebook, don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision. There's a lot more to life, and you deserve to be happy regardless of whatever else happens.
The worst part of my rejections is that I cannot even pass recruiters - apparently I cannot sell myself good enough despite that I’m somewhat confident that I’ll do good at technical interviews. Looks like a common problem to introverts.
I applied for a thousand jobs on Indeed and went to about 40 interviews until I got one where I clicked with the interviewer. I passed the first round with the Director of Operations who subsequently ended up getting fired a week before I started. My second interview I ended up with the Project Manager who was also an alumni from the same university as I was.
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> Amazon, which nobody is actually impressed by What?
People know the hiring bar is low and the perks don’t exist and the TC is low etc.
Realised two months after that that my prof could have got me an introduction there, but oh well!
An internship (itself gotten from cold applying, and serendipity meaning I had HCI/HCD experience, when that was a big internal initiative at the company).
A recruiter reaching out.
A former boss poaching me.
A cold application sent in for an open req.
Moved to Saigon from the Bay Area about 2 years ago. Was unemployed at the time (I mostly do tech consulting) and sitting in the newly opened cafe in my apartment building. A guy sits down next to me and is reading a book about bitcoin. He just moved into the building a couple days before. We start talking and he tells me he is mining, invites me to come help install the next shipment arriving that weekend. I go with…