Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources?

Re:Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources? by xyzzy_plugh on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:50PM (#21154126)

I wouldn't say that's necessary.

I've been in a senior role for 5 years and I somewhat recently interviewed at Google for an SRE/SW position with basically no prep (did maybe two practice exercises) and passed it no problem. I turned them down for a variety of reasons, but if I were to interview again I might even spend less time practicing.

It's true, however, that at some companies, performance impacts leveling and compensation, so there's surely value in being (possibly even over-) prepared.

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Re:Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources? by sjf on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:49PM (#21154389)

You sound like an outlier, I routinely interview senior engineers applying to Google and a massive majority do not pass the coding test. I would say half are not even in the ballpark of passing.

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Re:Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources? by delphinius81 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:03PM (#21154446)

Well in SV all you have to do is work at a startup for more than a year to get "promoted" to senior/lead developer, so it's not surprising that many people applying for those roles aren't actually at that level.

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Re:Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources? by sjf on Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:46PM (#21154610)

By senior I mean 5+ years experience, not their job title.

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Re:Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources? by wolco on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:04AM (#21154925)

5+ years is really the beginning of intermediate. 15 years is a better starting point.

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