From Rabbi to Coder: How To Prepare for the Technical Interview
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A rabbi-turned-developer describes a concrete path: attends Flatiron School, carries a tiny whiteboard everywhere, grinds through Cracking the Coding Interview and practices algorithmic problems until comfortable with the whiteboard. Offers three actionable principles—know your strengths, deconstruct problems into bricks, treat interviewing as iterative—and walks through implementing and improving a working binary search in ES5 then polishing it toward ES6 and tiny bitwise optimizations. The result: a repeatable preparation routine that measurably reduces interview freeze.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25Why this talk
- 2:23Who am I
- 6:37holding a piece of matzah
- 8:20Why did you transition to coding
- 9:50Remote work culture
- 10:42The learning
- 11:55The Whiteboard
- 14:58Language
- 16:53Limitations
- 18:36Building
- 19:16Interviewing
- 19:57Selfhelp literature
- 20:20Binary search
- 23:56Conclusion
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