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Write some self sufficient applications. It can be as simple as an app that shows you movie times in your local area in a nice way, scraped from movies.google.com by some quick web-service you written. Try writing the app in some in demand underserved platform.

Teach yourself a couple of algorithms courses and some basic multi-threading problems like producer-consumer and so on so you can get through the interview gauntlet. All of my interview questions can be derived from 5 courses: Algorithms & Data Structures, Discrete Math, Operating Systems, Compilers and AI/Machine Learning (optional).

Go interview, be willing to move.

If you feel like you've already done the equivalent, then your prepared.



I have done much of that - except for the putting myself out there part.

Willing to move is no problem.

Thanks for the advice. I'm working my way through a Data structures course now, I'll look for the others soon.




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