Job Search Reading List

I’ve collected articles (with some occasional video/audio content) that helped in looking for a new job. Highly subjective. It’s not that I agree with everything the say, yet I believe it’s worth reading/watching.

• Must Reads
  • in 2 parts
    • haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer
    • haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/
  • kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
• General resources
  • https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/ - general career advice
• Finding Jobs
  • Have connections on linkedin, really
  • Otta
  • Himalayas
  • WeWorkRemotely oldie, but goldie :)
  • Pallet
    • Pragmatic Engineer
    • Pointer
  • WellFound
• CV/Resume
  • By Gergely Orosz
    • StackOverflow Blogpost short and sweet version
    • Book the long version (ebook), worth reading IMO, it helped me chainging my mindset about the CV - from writing everything to writing only what matters in a given context (without lying ofc)
• Interviews
  • rkoutnik.com/articles/Questions-to-ask-your-interviewer.html very good post about finding red flags during interviews, I often use those questions
  • stackoverflow.blog/2017/04/27/how-to-talk-about-yourself-in-an-interview
  • behavioral - you’d better come with prepared good stories, everytime you answer “I can’t recall any situations like this” you’re loosing an opportunity to show your advantages
    • simpleprogrammer.com/ace-behavioral-interview
  • system design
    • interviewing.io/guides/system-design-interview
    • blog.pragmaticengineer.com/preparing-for-the-systems-design-and-coding-interviews
    • System Design Interview - Book - nice textbook for preparations, shows the structure of SD interview, but also a lot of case studies; remember it’s a textbook-grade, if you want in-depth details, take https://dataintensive.net/
  • Algorithms
    • LeetCode - problems of different types and levels, sandbox in various languages
    • lectures of prof. Eric Demaine - just awesome, take this example explaining dynamic programming (also on YT)
• Negotiations
  • An excellent post about salary negotiations in 2 parts:
    • haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer
    • haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/
  • Fearless Salary Negotiation
    • Podcast
    • Free content
    • there is also a book, but I haven’t read it *
  • kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ - timeless classic (as many writings of Kalzumeus)
  • Never Split the Difference - very interesting book about various negotiation techniques, showing a winning mindset. OFC the book itself is not enough without a training, but it helped in me in changing my perspective
  • By Gergely Orosz
    • Video: How to Negotiate a Big Tech Offer as a Software Engineer - with @RahulPandeyrkp
    • I Am Getting an Offer From Big Tech: What Happens Now and How To Negotiate this Offer?
• Contracts
  • joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/28/ndas-and-contracts-that-you-should-never-sign a bit dated, still worth reading
  • vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/contracts-you-should-never-sign/