Apologies all round. My posting schedule has gotten really irregular, but I can share the reason now.
Back in July, I had a manager at one of the big tech companies reach out about the possibility of joining her team. I let her know that I was very much interested, but that I wasn’t prepared yet for the kind of white-boarding interviews that her company used for vetting candidates.
This led to a roughly 6-month process of reviewing data structures and algorithms as I prepared for the interviewing process at her company. When all was said and done with preparing and interviewing (~8 months after she first reached out), I failed the final round at her company, but got offers from 4 other tech companies of varying sizes.
The process has been exhausting, and between that and maintaining my performance at my job, there wasn’t much time left for anything else.
I’d like to say that being done with interviewing will mean that things will calm back down, but I suspect that I’ll have to put in some longer hours to get up to speed with my new job.
Be that as it may, I’m going to try to get back to a more regular schedule.
Here’s to hoping.