I would apply to something like Toptal. When we were first built our team for my startup, we used Toptal contractors for quite a while. They were solid, and to my understanding, made good money. Toptal takes a significant cut of course. The bar is you have to pass a qualification test, which given your 3.5 years of experience, should be enough to get up and running.
> The bar is you have to pass a qualification test, which given your 3.5 years of experience, should be enough to get up and running.
It's a 5 step test, you might retake one or two steps depending how much they like you and how you failed. I had a problem with my tooling doing a live coding test, could take it again within a month. Others have been told to be sure to apply again in a year. Some haven't been invited back. Speaking English at a pretty good level (not accent free per sé but you should be able to get a complex technical point across) is required.
Another problem is that most people don't use basic algorithms too much in their daily jobs, for example because collections are too small to feel the difference or because you kind of "feel" what is the optimal way to do things but you can't just whip out an optimal pathfinding algorithm under pressure. This requires some training.
+1 on Toptal. I consult (development work) for a client via them. And their rates are much better than perhaps any where else in the freelancing world.
But their process is a bit difficult, as another sibling comment has described. Knowledge of algorithms is required. And the second stage of being able to clear a programming test, is generally described as a significant barrier. It is advisable to practice algorithm problems before applying.
Here's my experience trying to find a job on Toptal from Poland: they are good if you're OK with earning peanuts - then the rate charged to the client is reasonable. I suspect that they tried to double my rate. Can't tell any specifics because that'd break their contract.
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Yes, there are a lot of things that I think good, solid recruiters bring to the table.
Here's why: I have a great relationship with a couple recruiters that have a) introduced me to opportunities, and b) helped me fill roles as I was hiring. In my past four roles I've worked with a small number of recruiters to place engineers with my team — they know I'm respectful of their time, clear about my expectations, etc. and therefore they work hard to deliver good candidates, filter out the resume "chaff", and communicate realistically about what candidates they see being available. And when it was time for me to move on, besides my own meeting people and talking with different companies, this same set of recruiters supported me through introductions and potential roles. They've helped me as much as I've helped them. Mutual respect is abundantly required when working with recruiters.
I think, though, this requires a willingness to ignore the recruiters that tend towards being ambulance chasers (your cybercoders level), and not-insignificant amount of time "interviewing" and building up relationship with any recruiter I work with (on both sides of the table.)
That's always where I struggle, too. "How does this scale to real life problems?" That being said, the article goes into that—pretty well, I think—after the sum method. It focuses on an "OrderKindValidator" class that is expanded.
I was literally just wondering that, too. In NYC, for instance, there are a number of places [1] that are considered "destination chargers" that are parking garages throughout the city. I imagine that for an add-on fee to the monthly rental of a parking space, they also providing charging. That being said, I imagine it easily puts the potential monthly parking fee near $1,000.00 a month (given that it looks like indoor garage parking is generally around $600 - $700 a month.)
I love reading Matt Levine's writing; I enjoy the humorous tone. A bit of Louis CK for the financial world. But I didn't get that he was dismissing the security concerns. I read it as he was dismissing the idea that some aspects of the hacking could have been more easily thwarted. For example, two factor authentication is a relatively straightforward protection. Now he may have been underselling how complex it is to implement, but I would have to agree that items like two factor authentication are relatively straight forward tools at this point.
2 factor authentication has nothing to do with this, though, and would do absolutely nothing to protect against this occurrence or similar ones. 2 factor authentication is great in certain situations... but only when your code is operating correctly. If someone has achieved arbitrary code execution (even if only at the SQL layer) it's game over. 2FA won't save you.
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