whodatmiami
2mo ago
I got a CS degree a few months ago and I have been working as a sys admin for almost a decade. I don't have much of a portfolio other than coursework, but I have been hitting leetcode pretty hard and can solve easy and medium problems pretty well. How can I get interviews for coding positions? I haven't had much success so far.
This might be more low effort than other posts on here, so I apologize in advance if this is considered low effort in advance. If i violates the rules feel free to delete. However, I had two unique experiences this month with Cubans that I'm curious if anyone else has had. For background on this, I was a sys admin at a pretty big (well known) company for about 5 years and got recruited to an engineering company that got bought by venture capital and now my job is to help them onboard new companies they buy. This means we work with them for a few weeks and then fly out and visit them and get them set up on our network, Azure, email etc. I've done it for about a year so I have gone to 15 states in places from NYC to rural Louisiana to Boise, ID and every place I've been after a few days the owners usually at the end of it (assuming everything goes well) take us out and are super friendly. Usually on the last night we drink and have a good time. The last two have been in Florida and owned by Cuban immigrants (and their kids) and they are by far the most serious people we have worked with.
I don't mean they were mean or anything, but I don't know any way to describe this other than they were just incredibly serious and professional all the time. From seeing movies about Miami and stuff like that I had a certain view of Cubans as people who like music and to dance etc., but this was the complete opposite. Even when we went out on the last night they barely drank and just wanted to talk about how it went and what was going to happen going forward. From previous jobs, I've worked with people from countries known for being serious like the Dutch or Germans and they liked to drink and let loose after hours. From these Cubans I worked with, when politics were brought up, they went off about government inefficiency and how America is getting too much like Cuba. I know Cubans are known for being conservative because of Fidel, but there seemed to be a massive distrust in government you only see in the most hard core libertarians.
Yes I know n=2 and they are Republican business owners, but it was pretty shocking to me compared to how they are portrayed in the media. Is this the norm for people who have interacted a lot with that community? I'm not from Florida so this was more or less my first time interacting with that community.
Also, if these people are standard for Florida Cubans, it is no surprise that Florida is now a very Red State. There is no way any of these people would ever vote Democrat and Florida will be Republican for the foreseeable future. This is a perfect example of a state getting less "white" (I put it in scare quotes because a lot of them looked white) yet being more Republican. It also reminds me of my current office in Texas where the non-white people such as Indians are the biggest Trump supporters. The white people hated Trump the most!
There's a meme about Republicans making massive inroads with non-whites and I used to think it was overblown and wishful thinking from Republicans, but from traveling to places like Florida I'm actually starting to see it it in person. Is anyone else seeing this (not just Cubans) but in general? There is seeing trends in polls and in the media and then there's seeing it in person that makes it real.
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