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Gayle Laakmann

After three internships at Microsoft, one internship at Apple, and three years at Google, Gayle Laakmann decided that she'd spent enough time at the biggies. She left Google with best wishes to her co-workers and went out to explore the world. She spent six weeks in Argentina and three weeks in Asia. Gayle is now back in Seattle exploring the startup scene.

Projects & Activities

Gayle Laakmann spends her time working on CareerCup and Seattle Anti-Freeze. CareerCup is a source for technical interviews, job postings, interview training, and more. Seattle Anti-Freeze is a company Gayle founded a year ago that organizes parties and other events for people in their 20s and 30s.

BlackBoxJobs.com

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About a year ago, I put up a page of the technical interview questions I had been asked, which shortly found its way to http://www.glaak.com/interviews . It's grown a lot since then, with new questions from friends and helpful readers. I've gotten a lot of great feedback about the site, and I'm pleased to say that I will be moving the page onto its own url which it rightfully deserves: BlackBoxJobs.com.

BlackBoxJobs.com is up and running, but I think it still has a little ways to go before I feel comfortable redirecting traffic over there. To get there, I'd like to know: what do you think?

Here's what's different about the new site
  • Improved organization: Instead of throwing all the content up on one page, it's broken up across multiple pages. As we get more questions, this'll help it scale more.
  • Grouping by Question Type: Now, you can view just the coding questions, just the algorithm questions, etc
  • Message Board: A message board / forum for asking questions about the job search process.
  • Blog: Only two entries right now, but more to come! (Want me to write about something? Let me know)
  • Shout-outs for Help: A link you can click that'll flag this question as needing help. This'll advertise to people that this is a tough question and someone wants some hints
  • Question of the Day: Each day, one question will be advertised as the Question of the Day. See a question you think would be a good match for that? You can click to suggest it for Question of the Day
  • Add a Question: Previously, you could only add questions in bulk. Now, you can add a single question. I hope that this'll encourage more people to add questions, but it may take away value in that you can't see all the questions that someone got in a particular interview. What do you think? Is this a good move?
  • BlackBoxJobs: The name is a reference to this idea of "Black Box" where you can't see what's inside. I'll be honest - I'm not thrilled with the name. Got any ideas for a different name? (It would, of course, needs its own .com address - that's my main criteria). Seriously, any ideas for other names?
So, lots of changes. Please, check out the site and let me know what you think. How is it better / worse than the previous site? Any new features that you'd love to see? Any and all feedback is welcomed :-)

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