Topic

Biggest Job Search Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
By: Aline Lerner
Date: March 13, 2025, 6 p.m.

I'm one of the authors of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview (the official sequel to CTCI) and the founder of interviewing.io.

I've been around eng hiring for almost 20 years, as a candidate, and eng leader, a recruiter (both in-house and agency), and finally as the founder of a mock interview and recruiting platform.

I keep seeing engineers make the same, very avoidable mistakes. In this talk, I'll walk you through them. Note that there are no shortcuts to getting good at technical interviews. There, you have to practice. But, there are a bunch of job search things that you can get good at after a short talk, and those are the ones I'll focus on.