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Comment by Donckele | Hacker News Reader

How have the interviews gone?

Thanks for asking! So far so good. I must admit I'm a bit skeptical but still hopeful about the FAANG interview. The interviews with a few less famous companies have been good. (Actually one is very famous, even more than the FAANGs, but not a "tech" company.)

I will know more this week and will report back. :-)

Out of curiosity I ended up on your LinkedIn page. What a truly impressive resume. You have been exposed to such an incredible variety of companies and technologies over 50+ years. If this FAANG company doesn't sign you up, it's truly their loss.

Wow, I don't know how to thank you enough for that word of encouragement. I am really grateful after a long week of interviews and a much-too-hot weekend here in the Bay Area.

But shhhh... We're not supposed to tell anyone that it's been 50+ years! Right? The advice I usually get is to remove everything from more than 5 years ago, maybe 10 at the very most, otherwise someone might think I'm old! ;-)

Yeah, I don't buy that either, that's why I thought I would have some fun with my LinkedIn and list everything in it.

(Well, I did quietly omit that one job where I got fired after six weeks, many years back. It will be my little secret for now.)

But seriously, thank you again! :-)

Did you have trouble getting past the HR filter? I recently started on a similar journey and am curious how you managed the non coding portion to get your feet somewhat in the door.

Actually one of their internal recruiters contacted me out of the blue. So I don't have any advice on that aspect.

Alas, after going through their interview process it turned out to be a "no", but no worries, it looks like I have at least one good offer, maybe 2-3 coming in this week.

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