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Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

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Re: Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

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Post by thwarted »

jacques_chester wrote: post #10
d_r wrote: post #5

Great article. Wanted to comment on this "The first project I did on my own was jeansbargains ... I built it and then realized that I did not want to spend the time looking for deals to put on it" This seems to run as a common theme in many engineer friends (including myself, several times.) When approached with a sales-like problem, such as a opening a store or a SaaS product, or even starting a social network, we d…

> does it have a name? The division of labour. Different people have different strengths and preferences. Gains are made from trading on those differences.

Also The law of comparative advantage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

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Post by neilk »

ztan wrote: post #13

>In college, I never took a course on Compilers or Programming Languages... >I got the job through a summer internship, which allowed me to bypass the rigorous 8-interviews-in-a-day hiring process. And I lucked out... completely escaped having to code over the phone. I'm not trying to troll. However, I honestly do consider you landing a Google engineering internship/job with those school background (and zero coding e…

People dread the Google interviews because they are painful and exhausting. Not because they are a good test of ability.

In my experience, Google's interview process is very random. You never know when you're going to get some jackass who wants to ask you some aha-problem question. When I was at Google we had some interns who were forced to reinterview, and some of the best were knocked out by a question about betting on the color of shells chosen in complete darkness or some such nonsense.

Side note -- I had impostor syndrome at Google because I had only gotten through the interviews, and never done any CS coursework.

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Post by pnathan »

jbee wrote: post #20
pnathan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This of course brings to mind Yegge's interview loop theory: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

Argh, and I was contemplating applying for a product manager role at google. After reading this i wont be applying anytime soon -it's been over 10 years since I studied data structures and algorithms.

That article is 3 years old. Don't let one article dissuade you! You should apply anyway if you want to work there.
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