50 Subtle Mistakes to Screw Your Code and How to Avoid and Fix Them to Write Extraordinary Software for Web from the author of Practical Node.js, Pro Express.js, React Quickly, Full Stack JavaScript, free beginner friendly free indie book on TS.
Creating a dev bootcamp is not easy. I was there in almost the very beginning as a guest instructor. It's hard. Hack Reactor did a great job overall. It helped change the lives of many. The ROI is 200-300% over traditional CS degrees.
I was with fixthedmca and grassroots.io during StartupBus and Sina works at the same office with me — the cause is important and the new design is very good!
Disclaimer: HackReactor is not a dev bootcamp. It's intensive 12 week in-person course which covers JavaScript, Ruby, Node.js, D3, Meteor.js and other technologies and takes students from 0 to employment: http://hackreactor.com
"My My Hack Reactor classmate Mike Adams' app Instahood is pretty cool. It shows recent Instagram photos from any location you choose. When you first open it, you see photos at your current location. Then you can look at pictures wherever else you want, either by clicking somewhere on the map or by searching for a place (with auto-complete!)
He used Meteor (web framework), the Google Maps API, and the Instagram API."
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All night we hack,
And sleep we lack.
We eat junk food,
The code is crude.
Nevertheless,
Friends are impressed,
When in the morning,
Our post on HN* is roaring!
Could you point what was his expectation culture wise and the company's situation? What exactly he didn't like except the wrong questions?
I wish I left some interviews early :)
In the end it's important to leave on a good impression for future connections but probably those people (in your friends company) were arrogant immature kids in the first place and they don't care about good future connections anyways. In this case don't waste your time.
Same for the interviewers - please let the people know early on and save their time instead of being "polite" and dragging them into meetings multiple people (usually with the same dumb questions) or even stretching interview process into multiple days!
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