I have started preparation/leetcode for interviews as Flipkart is paying 🥜 and I want to make good exit, Google, Uber in Bangalore or overseas in Europe. I've some interviews going on for practice, few lined up in couple of weeks. My major focus is on preparation since last couple of weeks. Office work is taking a hit because of that. I don't feel like working on projects in current company. How do you guys deal with it? Do you guys work and prepare both or ignore work mostly and focus on leetcode? How do you deal with standup/updates etc? If I do both work and reduce focus on preparation, it will take more time for the preparation. I want to move as soon as possible.
Not much you can do, try to give very incremental updates during the standup and work on that one thing you want to give update on, and once it's working go back to prepping I guess. Certainly your hours outside 10-5 would be spent on prep
Yeah working on prep outside office hours, but there's no motivation to work on ongoing projects. I'm thinking about prep during office hours as well. But yeah, will try to have couple hours focus time on office work and other time for prepping.
Yup prepping during office hours is very common
I quit current job once I felt my interviews were going good. That gave me another good kick to make for next best company. Plus I started early in next with new salary and joining bonus bcs of early join 😁
Try to save as much energy and time during office hours. If WFH, plan your day around unavoidable meetings to prep for interviews. Work enough at work to not attract unwanted attention and scrutiny from manager. You’ll have more negotiating power while you’re still employed.
I had started prep during bbd, as work load was less. And after that I just use say I am doing it. Long story short.. u know u need to shift anyway . So focus on prep.
Yeah but if your current manager is bad, then they can start micromanaging you. And that phase of micromanagement, till they are satisfied that you're actually doing work, really pushes you backwards! 😔
Yes @oracle i agree. But point is you anyway need to switch. So just don't do officr work they won't pip you seeing 1 -2 month work. U just need 1 2 month to get few good offer.
I interviewed the entire Feb and have multiple offers. The hardest thing was to time the interviews so I could negotiate properly. I overestimated my sprints and gave incremental updates. One day out of 5, I finished the entire work and shot the updates in chunks. Oh and btw, I declined all "non essential" meetings and blocked my own "me" time on the calendar. Work did take a hit but overestimation was key
How long were you prepping for before starting interviews? Also which offers you got?
Mind sharing TC in FK vs offered TC?
Work until you have enough to give an update, then leetcode until someone asks for an update, repeat.
I had made sure to finish all my preparation before starting to apply, so I did not have to worry about that. Once I started applying, I would usually frontload any work that I had to the start of the sprint and also work on the weekends. I also made sure to overestimate tasks during sprint planning. Some companies also had interviewers from outside India, so I was able to take some interviews early in the morning / late at night.
Exactly, gotta start prepping passively for months before you actually reply to recruiters in this day and age
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In a similar situation here. Have a verbal offer, waiting for a written one. Work is definitely taking a hit.
Amazon, which company?
The offer is from Zeta. Interviewing with Twitter and Expedia. But getting out of here for sure.