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I'd done plenty of notebooks and zero production. Shipping something that actually had to stay up, and getting torn apart in review for it, is what made the interviews feel survivable.

My theory was solid. My ability to say out loud why I picked one model over another was not. Most of what I got here was learning to defend a decision.

Nobody in interviews asked about my coursework. They asked what I'd built, how it broke, and what I did about it. I only had answers because I'd already been asked all of that here.

Five half-finished repos and no idea which one mattered. The useful part was someone telling me which two to finish and which three to delete.

Reliability work is hard to fake. You either know what happens when a system falls over or you don't. I spent a few months making sure I did.

I could talk about campaigns. I couldn't open a performance report and say what was wrong with it. Closing that gap took about two months, and it turned out to be the whole job.

Honestly the biggest thing was structure. I'd been studying in circles for a year. A weekly deadline and someone who'd notice if I missed it changed more than any curriculum.

Paid social looks like pressing buttons right up until you have to explain to a client why the money went where it went.

Eight months of applications, almost no callbacks. The problem wasn't my skills, it was that nothing on my resume was specific. Once that changed, the interviews started.