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 hashfunktion on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:35AM (#16919590)

Senior level dev here (6+ years). My last job search was brutal. I aced my interviews but still got a lot of rejections. The feedback included

* the team thinks you’re a great engineer, but you didn’t show enough excitement about the company

* we think you’re a solid engineer but not quite at the senior level yet, it’s ok though, we reject 98% of our candidates

* we do a lot of code story telling at our team (I kid you not) and you weren’t a great story teller about your code

* the team didn’t get the sense you enjoy pairing and we pair a lot here

I actually think the real reason was poor personality match but companies don’t like being honest about that so they make up nonsensical excuses.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by brynjolf on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:22AM (#16921743)

Code telling? What is that? I'm sorry about the job but that sounds hilarious.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by hashfunktion on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:19PM (#16926279)

It was stupid. They gave me a project to do and during the onsite I had to walk through the code in the project. I thought I was pretty thorough given the time constraint. I figured it was just a bad personality-fit and they had to make up something so they said "not a good code story teller".

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