I just recently had to find a job. I started looking on Monday and accepted a job by Wednesday afternoon.
If you are interested in working with a recruiter let me know and I can put you in touch with the person that helped me. I won't name drop but if you would like me to put you in touch I will be more than happy to.
Questions:
- What technology stack(s) are you comfortable with?
- What type of development are you interested in the most?
Suggestions:
- Do not just take a job for the sake of moving out here. A means to an end is simply not enough in the bay. You need a life too and that costs $$. Make sure you take a job that will fulfill you financially and professionally. (I moved out here 2 years ago).
- Get in touch with a recruiting agency about 1 week before you arrive. They will fill up your schedule with interviews.
- Stay anywhere you can that is cheap and near Caltrain. You'll probably have to travel all over the peninsula for interviews so a central location does not apply.
- Check Meetup.com and other user groups of interest (if you are into Node, find the node user group meeting in the bay and be there). Fill your evenings with networking events so you can meet people. Once people hear your story they will take a vested interest in your success and they will help you find interviews and network. This I cannot stress enough. Use your personality and make people want you to move out here. A lot of people are transplants and will go out of the way to help a fellow transplant out.
Other than that - good luck. I think 1 week is enough for preliminary interviews but I would plan for 2 weeks if you can. With 2 weeks I am confident you will find an offer.
I started with Archbang, then CTKArch, and then finally installed my own from scratch. Archbang and CTKArch are excellent liveCD versions of Arch but in the end I found I did not like the personal choices made by the creators of those releases. My system is now truly mine. I am in love with it.
My system is stable, and bleeding edge - an oxymoron.
Intellij is in the damn repositories... MondoDB 2.0 - the day it was released was in the damned repositores.
Anything else can't compete.
After installing Arch, and failing at least 3 times and being successful 2 other times, I found an appreciation for the way in which Arch did things. My first version was a Mac OSx clone with some personal touches. It was beautiful; but I was too ambitious and went with BTRFS which was a mistake. So I reinstalled and now I'm on XFS and things purr.
I can setup a development environment in less than 10 minutes using pacman and then keep it updated easily.
To setup the equivalent environment on Ubuntu would take much longer for me.
I am not a linux newb nor a guru, but after using Arch I feel like I can hold my own.
If you are interested in working with a recruiter let me know and I can put you in touch with the person that helped me. I won't name drop but if you would like me to put you in touch I will be more than happy to.
Questions: - What technology stack(s) are you comfortable with? - What type of development are you interested in the most?
Suggestions: - Do not just take a job for the sake of moving out here. A means to an end is simply not enough in the bay. You need a life too and that costs $$. Make sure you take a job that will fulfill you financially and professionally. (I moved out here 2 years ago).
- Get in touch with a recruiting agency about 1 week before you arrive. They will fill up your schedule with interviews.
- Stay anywhere you can that is cheap and near Caltrain. You'll probably have to travel all over the peninsula for interviews so a central location does not apply.
- Check Meetup.com and other user groups of interest (if you are into Node, find the node user group meeting in the bay and be there). Fill your evenings with networking events so you can meet people. Once people hear your story they will take a vested interest in your success and they will help you find interviews and network. This I cannot stress enough. Use your personality and make people want you to move out here. A lot of people are transplants and will go out of the way to help a fellow transplant out.
Other than that - good luck. I think 1 week is enough for preliminary interviews but I would plan for 2 weeks if you can. With 2 weeks I am confident you will find an offer.
Regards