Job Game 2026
Started Snapshot
I'm Sammy Samkough, and this is my public log of Job Game 2026. I'm keeping company names, people, and links in Notion, so everyone here is a numbered alias. The counts and tables come from a snapshot of that workspace and refresh as the search moves.
Highlights
Meetings
| Date | Kind | Company |
|---|---|---|
Applications
| Submitted | Company | Status | Board | Recruiter | Referral |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Companies
| Company | Status | Role | Meetings | First interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
How I built this
I keep applications, companies, and meetings in Notion. This site never writes back to that workspace. It is just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that loads a public JSON file in your browser. There is no app server sitting behind it.
A small Python script reads those three tables, strips names, people, and URLs, and hands each company a stable alias like Company 01. When a new company shows up, it gets the next number. Old numbers stay put so a row does not quietly become someone else.
GitHub Actions runs that script every day at 9am Eastern. If anything
changed, it commits, and Netlify publishes main with no
build step. If you want to poke at the code, it lives at
ssamkough/job-game.
What I include
- Completed meetings from the fin | job game 2026 view. Kind is onsite, technical, intro, recruiter, behavioral, or other — never the jobs tag. Screens are recruiter or intro meetings, including when that is only in the title. Highlights count how many meetings came through an application, a recruiter, or a referral, including whether recruiter calls were third-party and inbound.
- Applications in the Job Game 2026 Submitted view, plus a referral count from those rows. Recruiters is how many people in List of Recruiters are marked currently?.
- Companies I last touched on or after 11 Sep 2026 that are in Finding role…, Applied, Interviewing, Take-Home, Negotating, or Interviewed.
- Interview questions from my Asked Questions notes, on /questions. Company names are stripped, wording is cleaned, and duplicates are dropped.
- Prep resources on /prep: behaviorals, system design, and technical knowledge.
Projects I've built while job searching
The search has a lot of waiting in it. I used some of that time to make things.
Job Game 2026
This site. A public, anonymized log of the search. Company names stay in Notion; here everyone is a numbered alias. A Python snapshot reads that workspace every morning and Netlify serves the static files.
Clock In With Toons
Video rooms with chat and a shared whiteboard. People create a room, share a PIN, meet, chat, and draw together.
Long Island Events
A weekly list of what's on in Lindenhurst, Farmingdale, Massapequa, and Babylon. A Python job scrapes the village calendars, Netlify publishes the week plus an RSS feed, and people can subscribe for a Sunday email.
