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Thanks for the reply--

I have about 6 years of experience. I'm a senior team lead at a bay area startup.

I'm really looking for what areas to 'focus' on.

1. I don't think SO career profile is worth maintaining. You're right, the job selection/application process is nice and simple. 2. Resume/cover letters are still very important and need to be maintained/tailored to each job. 3. LinkedIn seems like a good networking/reference tool so should probably be maintained. 4. Dice.com? Doesn't seem worth maintaining to me.

It seems to me directly applying for positions with a nice resume/cover letter are still #1. A decent LinkedIn seems to help showcase recommendations/network, but isn't super important.

As for tech, I feel I am comfortable with anything from C/C++ to Ruby/Python/Go to JavaScript. I have experience on mobile, desktop and web development. I'm open to all opportunities but hoping for mobile/desktop or backend work.

I only have 6-ish years of professional experience but I've written code from a young age and have a number of open source projects as well as contributions to major projects like Vim, Homebrew, etc.

Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback! It's a commercial SaaS product and it's feature complete (server written in Go). The client workflow is complete as well. I am in the last "10%" which is all styling, polish and making the experience feel great. This part takes a long time (at least for me).

I'd love to steer my interviews down this question line, it makes a lot more sense than, "Regurgitate how to perform a binary search", etc.

These are now on my book list, thanks!

Thanks! I may take you up on that offer :D

Thanks--

In my experience most companies are the 'stupid' problems, I certainly wish more companies would stop all the bad habits but it's pretty wide spread :(

Thanks for the feedback-- that's what my hunch was. I agree completely. I think hiring _is_ quite random and that is partially what puts me on edge. I want to prepare and give myself the upper hand but it's so random it's hard to prepare for.

I do think data structures and algorithms are a must and if I had to guess, stumbling on the whiteboard is probably the most common reason for a rejection which is why I think that is something that needs to be practiced.

The other things may just be gravy.

What about a non-business owner? How about an application security consultant working with a business such as Matasano? How do those salaries compare?

I thought "salaried" overtime only applied to people that made less than a certain amount of money annually. If my memory serves me correctly, I heard it was about $50,000. If that's the case I would not be eligible, but if it applies to all salaried employees regardless of pay, then that's very interesting...

Thanks-- just to clarify these are regular engineer/developer hours, I will make a note in the original post that these are not founder/co-founder hours.