Interview Prep after 2 year gap.
My wife just got her H4 EAD and she has started prepping for software engineering interviews after a gap of 2 years. She was a full stack developer in India with 5 years of experience. What should be the strategy for her to prepare for tech interviews given that she has lost touch of coding. There are so many resources to prep but it gets confusing and frustrating to go through all the resources. Is there a organized way of prepping after a long break? Please provide suggestions if you were in the same boat before. #interviews #swe
Based on first hand experience, use Grokking patterns for coding interviews as good start and then use Leetcode for more practice. This will take some time especially if someone is starting from scratch, but if you do this you are good for all coding interviews. For system design also I would recommend Grokking as good starting point and then learn real life systems through YouTube.
I think now since there's a gap,she would be offered SDE I role
Not necessarily, it's all about how you perform in the interviews.
Unrelated: How long did h4 ead take ? Can you share some timelines ?
Around 6 months
Went from normal h4 to h4 ead ? Or h4 ead was the first visa used to enter into the US ?
1. For coding: Start with Neetcode 150. Start with easy questions first 2. For system design: Bytebytego is good
The real problem isn’t interviewing - it is getting your resume picked up when you have a 2 year gap. Especially in this market where each job has at least 10+ super skilled ex-FAANG people applying to it.
What was she doing for the last 2 years? It would have been more easy if she was preparing for a few hours everyday.
2 years of gap would be bad ?
@amadeus what response is saying is good luck starting interview prep now because it is super hard and competitive ... should have started 2 years ago