Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by hfdgiutdryg on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:31PM (#16915814)

While your projects might help generate interest in you and get you an interview, the actual interview process is meant to be an assessment by the Company conducting the interview. So you shouldn't automatically assume you have the jobs simply based on your past projects alone.

That's insane. If you brought me in because you liked what's on my resume, your number one priority should be determining if I really did what I said I did. Your priority shouldn't be arbitrary, unrelated questions or coding challenges pulled off some website.

I'm not aware of any other industry that behaves like this.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by pm90 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:36PM (#16915848)

> That's insane. If you brought me in because you liked what's on my resume, your number one priority should be determining if I really did what I said I did. Your priority shouldn't be arbitrary, unrelated questions or coding challenges pulled off some website.

There generally is a component where you're asked about your past projects in detail. Its just not the only component.

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