Lost a mid 100k Software Engineering Job 3 months ago, just doubled my income to 200k+ AMA

[dj-method-x]

Excited as fukk. Lost my job a couple of months ago. Went into hibernation to focus on my interview skills and mastering common technical questions, patterns, system design and algorithms. Just signed on with a well known company for a salary plus stock options that totals 200k+. Ask me anything. Willing to share how I went about everything for those curious.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Willing to share how I went about everything for those curious.

Go for it. And what city is the job in?

 

[dj-method-x]

Go for it. And what city is the job in?

Job is in ATL.

Basically I read through Cracking The Coding Interview first. Then I went through all of the easy and medium Top Interview Questions on leetcode.com

I focused on doing 4 questions a day. On leetcode there's tags for each question for example arrays, graphs, breadth first search, trees, etc. I made sure to master each tag using youtube videos and any information I could find on the internet.

It took me about a month to do this. Afterwards, I did the same questions again. Leading up to my interviews I ended up just reading my solutions to the questions I answered so that I could remember certain patterns, algorithms and such.

For the system design part, I bought this virtual course that explains the different components I'd need to master and also goes over how to design common systems like youtube, twitter, instagram, dropbox, tinyurl, etc:

Designing Typeahead Suggestion

By doing this my interviews were a breeze. I turned down several offers and was able to leverage my two favorites against each other to get the offer that I wanted.

 

[Silkk]

How much you gonna let me hold?

 

[chowism]

What's with these narcissistic threads on here where nikkas feel more important than they actually are. You ain't famous nikka and nobody on here wants to be your democratic agent ass. Talking about AMA .

 

[Apollo Creed]

What Product Roles they got open? PM me lol.

 

[GollyImGully]

By doing this my interviews were a breeze. I turned down several offers and was able to leverage my two favorites against each other to get the offer that I wanted.

whats a good way to go about this?

lets say company A sends an offer then company B sends an offer shortly after

you really want to work for company A but company B has offered a higher salary

how do you make company A drop the bag ?

 

[Matt504]

this is pretty much the path my friend followed to get hired at Facebook.

 

[Mike809]

Did you majored in Computer science? or self-taught? certs?
and how long you been working as a software enginner?
also, did you find this job through linkedin?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

how do you make company A drop the bag ?

I second this question.

 

[dj-method-x]

whats a good way to go about this?

lets say company A sends an offer then company B sends an offer shortly after

you really want to work for company A but company B has offered a higher salary

how do you make company A drop the bag ?

Read these asap:
Pt 1: Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer – freeCodeCamp.org
Pt 2: How not to bomb your offer negotiation – freeCodeCamp.org

For me it was backwards. Company A sent an offer that was decent first. I used Company A's offer to press the issue with Company B, letting them know I already had an offer with Company A to get my interviews kinda fast tracked. After I aced the interviews for Company B, they sent me an offer that was significantly higher. I went to Company A letting them know I had another offer, so they increased their original offer to make it close to Company B. I then went back to Company A and told them that Company B made a counter offer that was quite strong. Was able to squeeze out an extra 10k in salary, and 10k in RSU's from my preferred company which was Company B.

 

[Armchair Militant]

What are your hours?

 

[dj-method-x]

Did you majored in Computer science? or self-taught? certs?
and how long you been working as a software enginner?
also, did you find this job through linkedin?

I majored in comp sci. I've been working as a SE for 10+ years. No certs. I did my entire job search through indeed.com.

 

[dj-method-x]

What are your hours?

just have to work 8 hours a day. The hours are flex, some people work 7-3, some 9-5. It varies.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

What's your job title? And what are you working on\with?

I know an engineering manager who was making 180k before the startup we were at was sold.

I also knew an office manager who was making 100k. Not even gonna pretend to know why though. From what I've been told, he did a lot work when the company was moving into a new office. But after that, his job was pretty damn chill (he was my manager for a few months).