How to talk about yourself in a developer interview

Re:How to talk about yourself in a developer interview by pc86 on Friday April 28, 2017 @12:29PM (#14220797)

> Overcoming technical debt/bad decisions of the previous group of programmers.

This is often a gold mine, just make sure your interview doesn't become a discussion about how bad other programmers are.

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Re:How to talk about yourself in a developer interview by wernercd on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:33PM (#14221885)

Absolutely. I try not to bad mouth the individual - because the two guys seemed like good people.

Secondly, programming - to a degree - is "art". My version of a masterwork is different than yours.

But the framework decisions? Lack of documentation? Lack of source control? No dev environment? etc. Decisions and foundational information that is demonstrably wrong and needs fixing? And what we have done/are doing/will do? THOSE are the things to focus on.

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Re:How to talk about yourself in a developer interview by ssttoo on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:24PM (#14222312)

how about overcoming technical debt you created yourself in the past? :)

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