Ex-EasyPost - Interview Resources

Intro

I suggest joining the slack community to be able to directly communicate with others and then roughly follow this guide.

1. Reach out to former managers/peers for recommendations on LinkedIn, etc
2. Prep your resume! Follow some of the guides listed below
3. Reach out to your network, try to go direct to at least 5 people you know per day to see if they know of any roles that you would fit, don't rely on just general linkedin posts, message your network directly.
4. Define a schedule and a plan and follow it, good interviewing requires preparation. See Interview Guides section for tips on planning your approach.
5. Start practicing for interviews as appropriate, this is huge for dev in particular but applies everywhere, putting thought into behavioral questions in particular is very valuable, you'd be surprised how hard it can be to talk about yourself on the spot.
6. Apply!

This is a process that can be planned and approached as a project. I really suggest you formalize your approach and treat it as a system.

Slack Community

There is an ex-EasyPost slack community that you can join and interact with others impacted by this reduction as well as get support for interviewing. Send me a message on LinkedIn(https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-banbury-65404b180/) and I'll get you an invite.

Come join and ask for resume reviews, see if you can organize mock interviews, pool network resources for job hunting.

Interview Guides

• InterviewGuide.dev

  Start here, go through the whole thing, interviewing can be approached systematically with a plan. If you are a dev everything in here is valuable. If you had another role, swap the specifics with something more appropriate to your role. This is written for an audience that wants to switch jobs but can be adapted.

• Interviewing Guides from Interview.io

  These resources can be a valuable extension of the plan laid out in interviewguide.dev.

• Tech Interview Handbook

  Pretty significant resources for preparing for developer interviews.

• Life After Layoff Youtube Channel

  Lots of videos about how to approach interviews, the value varies here but there is some good stuff.

Dev Practice

• Exercism

  A bunch of learning tracks for different languages and practice exercises

• Leetcode

  A lot of complex data structure and algorithms problems to prepare you for harder code challenges.

• Neetcode

  Like leetcode but nicer?

• Geeks for Geeks

  Lots of resources

• System Design in a Hurry

  Quick-ish overview of system design topics for interview prep.

• Structy

  Data structures and algorithms training platform, can be good to train up before diving into leetcode type platforms.

Product/PMO Practice

• Product School Interview Questions

  A ton of questions that will likely appear in product panels

Support Practice

Please share any resources you have for Support, QA, Implementations, etc roles

Growth Practice

Please share any resources you have for Sales/Customer Success/Accounts/Sales Eng roles.

Resumes

• Leopard Resume Guidelines

  Solid guidelines on how to format and what to put in resumes from leopard.fyi

• Resume Template

  The first step is crafting a resume that works well with the automated systems in use today. You need to reach a human but you've got to go through the automated systems first.

Mock Interviews

• Interviewing.io

  Mock interviews with engineers at major tech companies.

• Mock Interviews with Peers

  If you want to start practicing interviews, please join the slack community and we can try to arrange mock interviewing practices.

Job Boards

• Awesome Job Boards

  Huge list of job boards broken down by areas of focus, primarily for devs.

• LinkedIn Jobs

  Lots of jobs here, often tuned to your experience.

• Ruby on Remote

  Job board focused on remote ruby language roles or ruby adjacent(ie Frontend in a rails stack).

• Climate Base

  Job board for positions that are climate related.

• We Work Remotely

  Remote First job board for tech roles.

• HN Hiring

  This site scrapes and categorizes comments from Who's Hiring Hacker News posts.

• No Whiteboard

  A job board focused specifically on companies that do not have excessive code challenges in their hiring process.

• Y Combinator Product Roles

  Product management roles open at YC companies.

• Y Combinator Sales Roles

  Sales roles open at YC companies.

• Y Combinator Engineering Roles

  Engineer roles open at YC companies.

Companies Hiring

• Canary Technologies

  Canary is hiring for multiple roles and an EasyPost alumni works there.

• Affirm

  Affirm has been consistently hiring through various ups and downs in the market and their product is resilient to economic forces.

• SalesForce

  SalesForce has some dev roles and even more opportunities for growth/business roles. I have a connection that can help surface resumes to hiring managers.

• Verily

  Verily has a variety of roles and an EasyPost alumni can help make connections/surface resumes.