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 vvanders on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @08:49PM (#16917930)

I love to flip that around in an interview before it even comes up, one of the 3 things I start out any interview with is:

"I'm your Google, anything you'd need to look up just ask me and I'll give you the answer".

Great way to take the pressure off plus it gives you a good idea on how well they ask questions/are comfortable leaning on others. It's a huge plus if I can get a reasonable candidate to admit that there might be parts of the problem at hand they don't understand.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by wst_ on Thursday April 26, 2018 @08:45PM (#16937487)

This is fantastic. Often I am wondering should we start test how good engineers are in asking questions for search engines. I am not going to write the perfect compilable code for them, I have a tools to tell me if I forgot the semicolon in line 31. I don't need to remember standard library 100% and recall all functions' signatures - I have a docs for that. But I should be able to ask meaningful questions that get me closer to the answer and I should do it efficiently. We have tools now, we should start using it instead of memorizing things.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by dblohm7 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:19PM (#16923052)

I love this! Thanks for sharing!

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