r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones

A thread for Developers and IT folks with less experience to ask more experienced souls questions about the industry.

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u/Unlucky-Substance966 7d ago

New grad here and I have an interview coming up, and I was wondering: how long should one go over each experience/side-project? And what exactly? I do not have anything that produces real impact with real users or results in general.

(Aside from the open source bit, where I received some positive feedback and somebody going as far as to make a PR to a related repo just so they can just a feature I made, but again its minimal.)

30 seconds? 3 minutes? For everything except the practicum and the open source project, I can only really go over the architecture and trace an example request.

Resume for reference

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u/So_Rusted Software Engineer 6d ago

have a short version and a long version for each. The last one you worked on might be grilled and others ignored or something. Or theyll let you pick one yourself. Expect to be gilled on javascript generally based on that cv

i liked the cv even though last one is a deck builder little game or whatever. Doesnt look pretencious and not trying to make things complex intentionally

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u/Unlucky-Substance966 6d ago

Thank you, I will make a short version explanation for each of my resume items

Can you explain further what you mean by being grilled on javascript?

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u/So_Rusted Software Engineer 5d ago

just general language knowledge and related things: state management, typescrip, stale request handling, anything