Interview — Sharpen your skills
Category: Interview
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Most relevant for Information Technology sector but, the links provided can be of useful for anyone who is planning to make a career shift.
COVID-19 — Corona virus has put the world on a pause mode. YES. It’s a pause mode for a longer period. Current generation especially aged between 20’s to 50’s has never seen or experienced such crisis and are part of the history. The economy has already started fumbling and worst to happen is a recession. Oops.. This is not a de-motivating topic with such scary stories. Instead, I have something good for most of you. Yes. It’s the old story.
A woodcutter cutting trees with a blunt axe is not the need of the hour. It’s time to sharpen the axe, and we being the wood cutters for the IT industry, I give my collections to get prepared for the biggest recession that world might witness (As on April-06–2020, NO vaccination has been found for COVID-19 and the infected people all over the world has already crossed 1 millon).
Let’s start with video tutorials/sessions. Here are few sites which offer video tutorials for a registered fee. Of-course, I have ignored youtube 🙂
https://app.pluralsight.com/library/
https://www.udemy.com/
https://udacity.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/
https://www.edx.org/
https://www.khanacademy.org/
https://www.futurelearn.com/
https://cloudacademy.com/
https://classpert.com/
https://lynda.com ===> Acquired by Linkedin.com
https://algoexpert.io
Find similar sites like this Example: https://www.similarsites.com/site/udacity.com
If these might bore you, and you need no disturbance of any sort and want to learn, try these blogs/articles. Few might have ads. Please bare with that. Here I have ignored (medium.com, dzone.com kind of articles) as the focus is not those.
https://algodaily.com
https://www.educative.io/
https://refactoring.guru/
https://www.codinginterview.com/
http://www.codingthearchitecture.com/
https://adr.github.io/
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
If you are a geek interested in programming but, missed to refresh your basics, you may try these practice sites.
https://www.hackerrank.com/
https://www.hackerearth.com/
https://triplebyte.com/
https://skillenza.com/
https://www.interviewcake.com/
https://leetcode.com/
https://www.codewars.com/
https://coderbyte.com/
https://codesignal.com/
Ofcourse, github is an awesome place to research and understand the existing open source resources. However, I find these to be useful for your interview preparation.
GitHub Pages:
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
https://github.com/RodneyShag/HackerRank_solutions
Video tutorials and my preference: (You can apply this code for an offer )
https://www.algoexpert.io/
Note: While purchasing use promo code to get 15% discount — “bbqht-94”
You have to decide the timeframe for your preparation as most of these sites keep adding new contents, articles, blogs quite often. So an ideal time of 3 months should be able to grab an offer from a reputed company. Feeling nice when you hear this right but, wait. It may not be as easy as I have written here.
There are websites which solves your problems that you might experience during an interview. Yes. They are called mock interview sites. Here is the list I have identified and thought could be useful to all of you.
Mock Interviews:
https://www.interviewbuddy.in/pricing.html
https://www.pramp.com/#/
https://www.interviewbit.com/
https://interviewing.io/
https://www.myinterviewpractice.com/
http://www.gainlo.co/#!/
https://biginterview.com/
With all these websites offering you enormous knowledge on what to prepare, it is up to you to draft a plan and which companies you want to target, what are the expectations, how do they select candidates etc., If your mock interview sessions are helping you out with a progress tracker, then it’s time for you to apply for the company(ies) that you wanted to work for.
There are various job offering sites and I have listed a few here:
https://linkedin.com
https://glassdoor.com
https://indeed.co.in
https://naukri.com
https://monster.com
https://instahyre.com
https://hirist.com
https://bigshyft.com
Last but not least, if you are a Manager and are interested in knowing the updates around your group, this site can help you out.
Managers References:
https://www.managersclub.com/
Hope this article helps everyone who are in the preparation to joining a job.
Please leave your feedback and let me know if there are any such similar sites and I will update it.
PS:
I have posted this article in medium.com