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Published Nov. 7, 2025, 3:31 a.m. by wielandtech
In case you've been living under a rock, the job market for software engineers in 2025 has been pretty abysmal. It for this reason that I am proud to announce that I've landed a new role.
Not only is it a role, but judging from my first two weeks it's going to be an awesome role! It's a small, remote company which has been experiencing astronomical growth. My team is brand new, with high impact and visibility. I am immensely grateful for the opportunity be the team's scrum master while also getting paid to learn golang.
In light of this achievement, I wanted to share the struggle that got me here: 8 months of unemployment and 380 job applications submitted.
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Published April 10, 2025, 4:32 p.m. by wielandtech
A rainforest recruiter recently reached out to me, and I began the mad scramble to learn Dynamic Programming. I find recursion and memorization quite natural to how I think, but dynamic programming quite the opposite. Where we somehow already have the answer, but now have to work backwards to where we started?
The OA was exactly what I had expected to encounter: Two dynamic programming questions; one medium; one hard. Never-the-less, I couldn't plop out two answers in the 90 minute time-frame. I'm curious how much time I should dedicate to this very specific interview skill?
I guess rainforest is saying memory is cheap, wrap it in a cache. Try again in 6 months? GL to Project Kuiper.
