One of the world's most powerful supercomputers has simulated a moment in the life of a real virus. The simulation is the first to capture a whole biological organism in such intricate molecular detail. "Computational Biology has finally reached the level of sophistication and utility of the 1970’s video game Pong. But it sounds like we should reach beyond Space Invaders and Pac Man levels in 5 years.... Maybe we’ll actually have the bioinfo equivalent of Excel by then."

I am now out of the job market for quite sometime. I enjoy leading Taragana. I enjoy everything I do there. However not so long ago I too was in the job market - interviewing and evaluating job offers. And let me tell you it was lots of fun. It is an intellectual game to me, a mental wrestling with the interviewer (yes, I am an INTP). I had very high success rate with high quality and high paying jobs, despite limitations like being on H1B and without having computer science major. I developed some simple strategies which contributed to it. In the following paragraphs I will provide you some insights based on my personal experiences which you can hopefully adapt to your interview strategy.