[nfbcs] Preparing for coding interviews

Tue Oct 4 01:44:57 UTC 2016

What you went through is extremely tuff to deal with, but welcome to the 
real world.  Every thing can not be made perfect.  When you have a real job 
outside of the university there is no time to deal with these things.  You 
must find fast efective and non complaining ways to deal with these 
problems.

These types of problems are extreamly frustrating but look on them as part 
of your education, you will have the samp types of problems working and you 
must solve them on your own.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Martin, Vincent F via nfbcs
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2016 4:41 PM
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Cc: Martin, Vincent F
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Preparing for coding interviews

Unfortunately the following is only about half the crap I have dealt with.
Over the six years I have been here:
Notes provided in actual handwriting!
Getting an accessible copy of text books, Braille or Math ML either never or 
three months after the course was completed.
Access to PowerPoint files a month after the lecture.
Every professor, including my own advisor, providing me with inaccessible 
(empty document) each semester for the first two years
Inaccessible Learning Management System for classes
Having to learn to code in "R" for my Statistics courses as SpSS was not 
accessible in any manner in 2010-2013.
I have never gotten one tactile graphic since I have been here!
Website for creating IRB protocols was inaccessible.
No announcements on campus buses and passing my actual stop twenty times the 
first year.
Too many inaccessible syllabi to count
All graduate school applications were inaccessible
Employee training for graduate student research assistants were inaccessible 
and I got my access restricted for not completing it in time
Housing applications for on-campus apartment was inaccessible and they tried 
to evict me for not filling it out.
On-line access to research journals still has serious accessibility issues
Initial Employee Pay information was inaccessible and I was subsequently 
underpaid for two years to the tune of over $8,000
To top it all off, I was given an inaccessible question in the middle of my 
PhD qualifying exam...
I was actually given a question with a photo graph in it and a url that 
pointed to an undescribed video!

I was so pissed off that I got up and took my guide dog for a half hour 
walk.  I then returned and contacted the lead attorney for the Office of 
Civil Rights for the Department of Education in this sector of the country.
They were and are still totally pissed as the school had just signed an 
agreement for my second OCR complaint two weeks before my exam.  They 
violated the agreement in less than a month.

They are on campus now conducting their third investigation in three years 
and there is not going to be a mediated agreement this time.  I was even 
advised that I still have the right to sue in Civil court.

If I did not have the technical background I have, I would be one of the 
many students that fail due to inaccessibility or quit because of the 
stress.

PS-  The Disability Services Coordinator was amazed when I showed her a 
signing guide.  She had never seen one.  She also did not know what 
Orientation and Mobility meant!

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Andy B. via nfbcs
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2016 3:17 PM
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Cc: Andy B. <sonfire11 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Preparing for coding interviews

What kind of accessibility problems do you have? The last I understood, I am 
the first blind person in the history of my school to graduate with a B.S.
in application development, and the first to enroll in a M.S. in IT:
software design.

-----Original Message-----
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Cc: Martin, Vincent F <vincent.martin at gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Preparing for coding interviews

My current foray into my PhD program has been a venerable accessibility 
nightmare.  I am the first totally blind graduate and blind student in the 
entire history of Georgia Tech.  I have had every accessibility issue you 
can imagine, but I intend to always be going back to school!  This is my 
fifth different degree and the more I learn, the more I realize how much I 
don't know and what I might need to learn.

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of david hertweck 
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Preparing for coding interviews

"never intend to go back to school again, "
You should re-think  this statement.  Even if it is not a formal class to 
stay violable as an employee in the CS field you must keep learning.

-----Original Message-----
From: Amanda Lacy via nfbcs
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 3:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Preparing for coding interviews

I'm specifically preparing for an online coding assessment on Monday and I'd 
like to refresh my memory and practice a little. Going back to community 
college is overkill and would introduce more accessibility problems. I know 
because I've been there. I just graduated from UT Austin and never intend to 
go back to school again, unless it's an online course that I already know is 
accessible.

On 9/30/16, Andy B. via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I have never been asked questions about coding during an interview.
> Instead,
> the questions ranged from situational to problem solving in the social
> context to personality questions. The interviewer would usually ask
> questions about future goals, leadership skills, successful and
> unsuccessful projects, and how you perceive yourself in conflict. Some
> sample
> questions:
>
> 1. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
> 2. When you failed to meet a deadline, how did you handle the problem
> with group members?
> 3. Tell me about a conflict between you and a supervisor. How did you
> resolve the problem?
> 4. Tell me about a time when you used [insert technology]. What kind
> of problems did you solve?
> 5. What attracted you to [insert company name].
> 6. What are the pros and cons of [insert programming language].
>
> Try telling a short story to answer the questions.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Amanda Lacy
> via nfbcs
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 3:00 PM
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> Cc: Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [nfbcs] Preparing for coding interviews
>
> How do y'all prepare for coding interviews?
>
> I first tried reading Cracking the Coding Interview, but I can only
> find that book in PDF, and it mangles pretty badly when converted to
> plain text.
>
> I then tried solving challenges on HackerRank, but I have several
> problems with that website. For example, some challenges give me
> incomplete instructions. One has an empty bullet list under
> constraints, so I don't know what they are.
>
> I need to refresh my memory on data structures and practice solving
> problems without worrying about accessibility.
>
> Thanks,
> Amanda
>
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