Brief His-story

More often than not, I find myself looking for my scribbled notes and cheat sheet when an interview is around the corner. These notes have to be re-assembled most of the time since I can never find the original ones I created for the previous interview. It is a big hassle to do this repeatedly and more likely to have me forget some information that would have been very handy prepping for the next interview. These notes consists of basic information either related to the interview or something I should know being a software professional. It also contains some details about a specific concept explained in basic terminology so that I don’t spend hours trying to understand it the next time. It would also contain links to blogs that I found helpful. So basically these notes would be a single go-to point to brush up my knowledge and set my brains into interview mode.

Every time I interviewed, a couple of pages worth of information would get added to the original notes. This would happen time and again until I had a pretty good collection of skim worth information before it got lost/trashed/deleted and had to restart the process. This tiresome repeated process of notes compilation got me thinking to start a blog so that I never lose it again and maybe it could be useful for other people out there to find some basic information at a single source. Mind you, this just gives you an idea about certain things but does not get into too much detail (yet).

To give you a little background about myself and what qualifies me to ever write about these things – I have been in the Software Development Industry in United States for about 7 years (2016). In this time, I got a chance to work for an International corporation in New York City, midsize family owned companies in Los Angeles and now a small startup-ish company in Los Angles as well. I am currently a Technical Product Manager, but I started off as a Quality Assurance Analyst after my Graduation and then got an opportunity to work as a Business Analyst. I completed my Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2010.

Though I had completed my Master’s, which is considered a high-level qualification, I was a complete noob when it came to software development as a career. I had little to no knowledge about it and I could not find a single source that would help me understand things in basic, noob-like terminology. This is what mainly led me to create my own notes sheet for interviews. Also having such information handy would boost my confidence and help me remember things at a quick glance while nervousness kicks in.

I hope this helps others just as it has helped me. Feel free to leave a comment and ask me questions.