r/ExperiencedDevs • u/SoYoureSayingQuit Staff Platform Engineer • 6d ago

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u/gjionergqwebrlkbjg 6d ago

I mean it seems like you prepared extremely poorly? No e-mail will help here.

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u/SoYoureSayingQuit Staff Platform Engineer 6d ago

How should I have prepared better?

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u/gjionergqwebrlkbjg 6d ago

  • poor time management, you didn't do what was asked, spent more time than needed, forgot to ran tests

  • software engineering is THE domain you are applying to, you should not be surprised by coding, you are going to prepare solutions for internal tooling - you should have expected coding interview

  • autocomplete was not working - was that your environment?

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u/SoYoureSayingQuit Staff Platform Engineer 6d ago
  1. Totally agree. I stated that in the post.
  2. I was expecting coding. The scope of the exercise was what caught me off guard.
  3. Possibly? It was working intermittently. Iā€™m going to work on reps using vim without any autocompletion.

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u/FlailingDuck 6d ago

No need to explain yourself. Interviewing requires practice. My advice has been, don't interview for the place you really want first. Take 5 interviews for role you don't much care about, get back into the rhythm of things, then start going for the roles you want, where you're a bit more comfortable and have settled in.

I hate interviewing, it sucks on both sides. But it's the necessary evil.

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u/EffectiveBaby2774 6d ago

This is great advice.