Re:Ask HN: Reasons to stay in Software Engineering
by mmt on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:47AM
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> would improve their chances of succeeding at a given interview loop, by preparing
It seems to me that you're presupposing that "success" equates to ending up with an offer.
I posit that for some professionals, success is actually deciding (ideally mutually) if employment is desirable/beneficial. The decision may well be that it is not, but that would still be a success.
In this latter situation, preparation time might be better spent researching the background of the team on would be joining, the company itself, and technical and cultural environment, in order to ask better questions during the interview, rather than studying so as to achieve what could be, arguably, described as gaming the technical screening portion of the process.
It seems to me that you're presupposing that "success" equates to ending up with an offer.
I posit that for some professionals, success is actually deciding (ideally mutually) if employment is desirable/beneficial. The decision may well be that it is not, but that would still be a success.
In this latter situation, preparation time might be better spent researching the background of the team on would be joining, the company itself, and technical and cultural environment, in order to ask better questions during the interview, rather than studying so as to achieve what could be, arguably, described as gaming the technical screening portion of the process.