421 sats \ 4 replies \ @davidw 4 Mar \ on: Some tips for landing your first developer job devs
So much useful content in this post. When it comes time to interview…

Interview prep
Useful for other jobs (like product), but I imagine there’s parallels with dev roles too. Have found it’s useful creating a spreadsheet of scenarios/mini-projects where I have dealt with:
  • working with large data sets
  • interacting with 3rd party libraries/complex services
  • running experiments and tests
  • tight deadlines
  • speaking to users or user research
  • solving a complex problem
  • managing many important priorities
  • inspiring colleagues
  • influencing senior colleagues
  • improving development processes
  • when was most happy
  • handling stressful situations
  • how resolved disagreement with designer / other team members
For each scenario, I logged 2+ examples of:
  1. what was the situation
  2. what I did myself
  3. what was the result
Great to have that structure to job your memory when it comes to the interview stage. To have many examples to draw upon. It’s often the format in which many recruiters prefer too. Even if their questions are really generic.
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491 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 4 Mar
Nice!
This is a great approach. Usually applications will tell you exactly what they want, you can usually search your experience to find an example where you did this exact thing.
Great idea to already have a list of these ready to go though
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164 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 4 Mar
I'm not sure if it's the same in the US, but here in Europe, it's a positive thing if the interviewee shows interest and asks the interviewer about business prospects and career development within the company.
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93 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 4 Mar
Yeah I've heard this as well. Sometimes I would blank at the end of an interview when they would ask if I have any questions for them (I usually didn't cause I had already done so much research lol) A good thing to fall back on is "How do I grow here?", "What growth opportunities do you have?", etc
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 4 Mar
this
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