Cover letters, it turns out, might be that foot in the door, the magic bullet, the all-in-one reveal everyone is looking for. Cover letters, though, take time to craft. If they don't, your submission is spam, you're spam, you're looking at the jobs like spam, and the return rate is gonna suck.

I've also started adding some of my stripped out / schema deleted oracle sql code to a github repo. This was wildly successful in yesterday's interview. The 30 minute interview turned from testing me in my query skills to "are you sure you'd like to do this?" because I basically would be moving from a "Principal" engineer's position to one lower. Apparently, "Principal" holds the same level in both Amazon and Microsoft as it does at AT&T. Good to know.

Business problems are fun, if they're data related. Either data acquisition, data cleaning, analysis, and reporting. That phrase really, Really, REALLY worked for me. I'm all plagarizing it all over the place now. So, I scrubbed my newly reformatted cover letter and crew-cut resume off again so he could forward to recruiters.
Next up: I'm putting together a list of questions which would be deal-breakers for me. Email me your suggestions.
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