or when interviewing at midjourney, i spent a weekend making a full canvas image generation tool to make sure they knew exactly what i'm good at. don't wait for them to ask interview questions this is still live, links are on my github

companies literally just wanna know if you are good at what they need. if you can explain this in a simple and concrete way, hiring you vs some perfect grade university student is a no brainer. you'll be the less risky option

always suggest working for free and suggesting a specific task you can trial working on up front, and push for making it happen on the call. nearly all companies will make sure to pay you but it lowers the perceived risk and commitment

shove the demo in peoples faces, it's super impressive and people will immediately get more helpful to intro you to other companies when you remove all doubt about your abilities. it's a win win for all parties

go to events, show everyone your demo. post it on all social media and try to go viral. post it in cold dms and emails

you need to make something that immediately catches peoples attention and is interesting. for example i suggested a friend of mine who is applying to ai jobs to make a diffusion model that solves mazes, it's super cool and impressive

also don't apply through normal application process generally

if above resonates deeply, my dms are always open! i try to respond as much as possible

@GabrielPeterss4 woa this is cool stuff do you just send these demos to the hr via mail or somethin and the interview becomes all about this project instead of standard react / leetcode questions?

@amritwt straight to managers, ceo, ppl with incentive for the company to go well HR people play losers game, they just don't want to make mistakes. if you are bad but are from harvard they can just say "oh he was supposed to be good" and they have an excuse. so they'll dislike you

@GabrielPeterss4 Ur the goat as always. How do u decide what type of demos to build?

@verrsane i just think about what people would find impressive! like how can i catch someones attention and make them understand what i built in under 5 seconds. that's much harder than the skills required to build the thing itself generally

@GabrielPeterss4 what do u do with the demo do you just start emailing people the demo or putting it in cold applications?

@namedobject mostly email ppl, just send them links and a short personalized message

@GabrielPeterss4 i absolutely love this. this is what should be on interviews, not leetcode

@phytalia you can make it the interviews! just bring demos and say you have things to show. take control of your own interview, the only reason why they interview you is that they just assume you don't know what to pitch them

@GabrielPeterss4 Single handedly built this, no ai?

@Test123457tets this was pre ai

@GabrielPeterss4 Wow great advice. Can I ask you if you went to college at all? Currently struggling with this decision, thanks.

@ga88752473 i dropped out of high school, it's a highly individual decision. i see university mostly as a adult daycare where you'll have a lot of fun and get great friends, if you don't genuinely want to become a math professor or something. good luck deciding!

@GabrielPeterss4 i keep sayin this, lol. people don't believe me when i say i just spend all day doing dumb experiments and showing people dumb experiments. https://x.com/menhguin/status/...

@GabrielPeterss4 as someone who is currently hiring, this is amazing. hiring would be 1000x easier if people focused on demos instead of optimizing credentials on CVs that i won't read anyway because i only interview people who show off their work 🤷‍♂️

@GabrielPeterss4 this is great

@GabrielPeterss4 Competition is for losers

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@GabrielPeterss4 Good advice, and ironically easier in a lot of cases than hand-crafting a resume

@GabrielPeterss4 Are you able to maintain the same level of performance if the table rows would have varying heights?