Gary_TheSnail_

  Location: Bay Area, CA
  Remote: In-person, hybrid, remote are all okay
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, Go, C, Assembly, (learning) Rust, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux
  Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/Hilal-Resume
  Email: hilalmorrar@gmail.com
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilal-morrar/

Hi! I'm Hilal, recent CS BS graduate interested in SWE or ML full time or intern positions. I am willing to learn and happy to make a positive impact. I served as a student-leader for 2 years at university and tutored for CS classes for 3 years. Happy to chat!

thank you again :) sounds good!

i appreciate the response, thank you! do you have suggestions on where to look for these growing companies? I currently search linkedin, YC (workatastartup), and angellist/wellfound).

Are there available positions for hire in the company? This sounds really interesting!

Hello! I hope you feel better soon! Burnout is hard to recover from - still trying to fully recover myself too.

I made a post and asked the community a similar question a little while ago, if you'd like to take a look at more tips and tricks people shared then too.

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29754211

I think this is the book, for easy access: https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/Guide_t...

Edit: skimming through it and looks like this is a lot of material in this book and other guided by the economist listed on the second page than can also be of interest.

Understood! Thank you for the advice! :)

I should have specified - it is a recruiter from the company doing the hiring, but I appreciate both pieces of advice. Thank you.

also lets you add friends (not required), write reviews, and rate movies/shows! pretty cool app

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Started about a month ago, just finished earlier today.

From what I gather from talking to peers, it seems like recruiting companies/services are not utilized and people are suspicious of them. This may or may not be the case in reality, since I've only talked to a small sample of people.

If this new platform is a standalone company/service, how would it overcome this uncomfortable feeling from its target audience? Or would it be a new service to integrate into existing company hiring processes as an additional SaaS product for companies that want to fix their hiring systems? Maybe both?

I also like the idea of transparency and honesty in the example you provided. Yes that could be a tough pill to swallow sometimes, but I think if that expectation is established from the beginning, it may not be as big of deal/problem.

I do agree about the timeline problems. Sometimes, it takes way too long to receive a response from a company - if anything at all!

I have been thinking about how to make the entire process from job posting to hiring better and one of my biggest thoughts was exactly about the processes being far too dehumanized because of the lack of hiring resources.

I appreciate your ideas and discussion!

This was incredibly introspective, which I appreciate. I'll comeback to these questions tomorrow and start figuring out some answers for myself in a notepad or something.

I appreciate the Feeling Good resource. I'll also take a look into that.

Thank you for your input and thoughts!

Very fair and practical advice. Small steps. Thank you!

This seems like a cool application of the 80/20 rule. I never thought to apply it to work and life like that, but it sounds much healthier than what I've been doing. I'll think of a new plan/daily schedule that lessens the current percent of day I spend on school and related projects and put that time towards something for myself.

Thank you for your input and thoughts!

Edit: typo

Incredibly well written. Thank you for sharing. I greatly appreciate your thoughts and input!!

Ooh! I like that "burnout is a sign to mix things up". Thank you for the advice!

I didn't think about seeking professional help, but a few therapy sessions wouldn't hurt to see if there is or isn't anything serious going on that I don't have the expertise to see.

I have heard a lot of good things about habits and routines. I try to establish some for myself but admittedly I don't give it 100% and they don't stick. I'd love to have a solid sleep and wake up time, but I lack the self discipline to do so :/

Thank you for your input!!

Thank you for the advice! Some friends and I signed for a basketball class next quarter, which I am looking forward to a lot. It's just a bunch of pick up games twice a week and maybe hitting the gym afterwards together. So I'm hoping that helps keep regular exercise and makes it fun.

I do find cooking to be fun (I hate the clean up though)! I was learning how to cook a few things in summer before school started again and that was enough to last me through the quarter, but I had to buy a meal plan on campus because oftentimes I didn't make the time to cook for myself.

Thank you your input!

You bring up a good point - a big part of the dissatisfaction could be from never finishing something. I'll lost out my projects, tasks, and goals for the year and pick 1 or 2 to focus on really well and work on them one at a time.

I saw this YouTube video (https://youtu.be/yg0opil8TMA) (amazing channel too) about finishing what you start and I really liked it.

Thank you for sharing!

I have never thought of the word "should" like that before. Thank you for that. I will keep a better eye on how and when I use it.

This is also the second time someone mentioned martial arts in here, so I guess that means it's something worth looking into!

Thank you for sharing :)

Thank you for sharing your cycle and wise words at the end. That is a very refreshing lesson and reminder.

I already severely dislike the interview process and I've only just started my entry-level, new grad job search, but there isn't much I can do to avoid it. I have also been looking into startups (ycombinator included) but haven't heard back yet, but I'm patient - it's a holiday break.

I have been slowly developing a study plan for data structures and algorithms since it's been a while since a took a class on that and that makes up most of the interview process for new grads from what I hear from peers. If you have any advice or resources on that, I would greatly appreciate it as well. Thank you!

Very fair and straightforward advice. Noted and appreciated! Thank you for sharing :)

I like this. I've struggled with going to the gym consistently because I don't lifting something heavy repeatedly very fun, so I don't look forward to the gym as much. I prefer something like pick up basketball with some friends. But recently I have been a little more strategic about the way I approach weightlifting because I would like to be less scrawny, more athletic/toned, so that helped a bit. But what you said is a different way to look at physical activity and I like that new perspective. Thank you for sharing :)

Thank you for the wise words. I like this reply a lot. It was a nice reminder :)